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James McNair is Assistant Professor of Music, Assistant
Director of Bands and Coordinator of Instrumental
Music Education at Texas Christian University.
Mr. McNair earned a Bachelor of Music Education
degree in 1991 from East Texas State University
where his principal teachers included Dr. Neill
H. Humfeld, Jim Clark, and Tom Bennett. In December
2001, Mr. McNair earned a Master of Music in trombone
performance from Texas A&M University-Commerce
where his principal teachers included Jim Clark
and Ed Jones.
Previous to this appointment at TCU,
Mr. McNair taught for ten years in some of the
country’s finest band programs including
Lake Highlands High School, The Colony High School
and Cross Timbers Middle School. In the summer
of 2001, Mr. McNair served on the brass staff of
the Drum Corps International World Champion Cavaliers
from Rosemont, Illinois. Mr. McNair is an active
clinician and adjudicator throughout the state
and has been a clinician for the Texas Music Educators
Convention and Texas Bandmasters Conventions in
San Antonio.
Mr. McNair is also in high demand as one of the
most versatile freelance trombonists in the Dallas/Ft.
Worth area. Mr. McNair serves as principal trombone
of the Richardson Symphony Orchestra, second trombone
of the East Texas Symphony Orchestra in Tyler and
the Lewisville Lake Symphony Orchestra. Mr. McNair
also performs with the Dallas Opera, the Dallas
Wind Symphony, and the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.
Mr. McNair is a former member of “The President’s
Own” United States Marine Band in Washington,
D.C. where he performed regularly at the White
House for the President of the United States, on
Marine Band recordings, and on national tours.
In 1997 and again in 1998, Mr. McNair won 1st Place
at the Eastern Trombone Workshop’s National
Classical Solo Competition in Washington, D.C.
In 1998, he was the featured soloist with The Colony
High School Wind Symphony at the 52nd Annual Midwest
Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.
Mr. McNair married his college sweetheart, Kim,
in 1997 and they have a son, James Thomas McNair,
III who was born on July 31, 2003.
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