OUR DIRECTORS
OUR DIRECTORS
ccB director
DREW CARTER
Drew Carter has been the Director of the Charlotte Concert Band since the fall of 2012. He is also the Director of Bands at Cox Mill High School in Concord, North Carolina. His previous Cabarrus County appointments include Band Director at Jay M. Robinson High School and CC Griffin Middle School and Assistant Director of Bands at Central Cabarrus High School. From 2005 to 2010, he served as Director of Bands at Chapel Hill (North Carolina) High School, where his responsibilities included directing the concert band, symphonic band, percussion ensemble, jazz band, marching band, and pit orchestra, and overseeing the jazz combo program.
During his tenure at CHHS, the concert band, marching band and percussion ensemble received numerous Superior ratings at district Music Performance Adjudication (MPA) events in Levels IV, V, and VI. The CHHS jazz program was honored in February 2010 as the Outstanding Jazz Band and Outstanding Combo at the 33rd annual "Essentially Ellington" High School Jazz Festival. As a result, the students received an invitation to perform with the acclaimed North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra.
Mr. Carter was the Director of Bands at West Alexander Middle School in Taylorsville, North Carolina, from 2003-2005. While in Alexander County, he was an active performer with the Unifour Brass, Hickory Choral Society and Lenoir-Rhyne Concert Band.
Mr. Carter received his bachelor's degree in music (horn performance) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and his master of arts in teaching degree from UNC-CH in 2001. His professional affiliations include the National Association for Music Education, North Carolina Music Educators Association and South Central District Bandmasters Association. His bands have twice performed at the NC Music Educators Association Convention. He was inducted into the American School Band Directors Association (ASBDA) in 2017. He and his wife Mandy live in Cabarrus County with their sons, Van and Levi.
During his tenure at CHHS, the concert band, marching band and percussion ensemble received numerous Superior ratings at district Music Performance Adjudication (MPA) events in Levels IV, V, and VI. The CHHS jazz program was honored in February 2010 as the Outstanding Jazz Band and Outstanding Combo at the 33rd annual "Essentially Ellington" High School Jazz Festival. As a result, the students received an invitation to perform with the acclaimed North Carolina Jazz Repertory Orchestra.
Mr. Carter was the Director of Bands at West Alexander Middle School in Taylorsville, North Carolina, from 2003-2005. While in Alexander County, he was an active performer with the Unifour Brass, Hickory Choral Society and Lenoir-Rhyne Concert Band.
Mr. Carter received his bachelor's degree in music (horn performance) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000 and his master of arts in teaching degree from UNC-CH in 2001. His professional affiliations include the National Association for Music Education, North Carolina Music Educators Association and South Central District Bandmasters Association. His bands have twice performed at the NC Music Educators Association Convention. He was inducted into the American School Band Directors Association (ASBDA) in 2017. He and his wife Mandy live in Cabarrus County with their sons, Van and Levi.
CCB ASST. DIRECTOR
JOHN S. HERLIHY, D.M.A
John S. Herlihy, DMA, retired as Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Bands at the University of Northwestern St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota. Dr. Herlihy's responsibilities included symphonic band and jazz Ensemble. He also coordinated the wind, brass and percussion areas and the chamber music program. Additional teaching responsibilities included Instrumental Conducting, Secondary Instrumental Methods and supervising student teachers. Before Northwestern, Dr. Herlihy was a Supervisor of Performing Arts and Director of Bands at public high schools in Long Island, New York, and southeastern Pennsylvania.
Dr. Herlihy has maintained an active performance schedule as a conductor and freelance musician, performing with the Charlotte Concert Band, Twin Cities Praise Symphony, Twin Cities Trumpet Ensemble, KCGO Big Band, Rutgers University Symphony Band, Suffolk County Music Educators Association Division III Symphonic Band, Atlantic Wind Symphony (NY), Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra, C.W. Post University Symphony Orchestra, Montgomery County, PA Honors Band and New York Mid-Island Honors Band. He has conducted or performed in pit orchestras for numerous theatrical productions throughout Long Island, New York City and the Philadelphia region.
Dr. Herlihy holds a bachelor's degree in music education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in music education from Queens College CUNY, and a doctor of musical arts in music education degree with a cognate in conducting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He holds association memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, College Music Society, National Band Association, and National Association for Music Education.
Dr. Herlihy has maintained an active performance schedule as a conductor and freelance musician, performing with the Charlotte Concert Band, Twin Cities Praise Symphony, Twin Cities Trumpet Ensemble, KCGO Big Band, Rutgers University Symphony Band, Suffolk County Music Educators Association Division III Symphonic Band, Atlantic Wind Symphony (NY), Nassau Pops Symphony Orchestra, C.W. Post University Symphony Orchestra, Montgomery County, PA Honors Band and New York Mid-Island Honors Band. He has conducted or performed in pit orchestras for numerous theatrical productions throughout Long Island, New York City and the Philadelphia region.
Dr. Herlihy holds a bachelor's degree in music education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, a master's degree in music education from Queens College CUNY, and a doctor of musical arts in music education degree with a cognate in conducting from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He holds association memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, College Music Society, National Band Association, and National Association for Music Education.
