Austin Lee Simon

1120 N. Brainard St., Naperville, Illinois 60563

Email: aulsimon@umail.iu.edu phone: (630) 618-9853

Objective:
- I aim to inspire and educate young minds and, as a musician, perform at a high level.

Education:
-High School: Naperville North High School, District #203, 899 North Mill St. Naperville, Illinois 60563
*Graduation: May 2012
-College: Indiana University, Jacobs School of Music
*Expected graduation: May 2016
-Major Emphasis: Bachelor of Music Education (Instrumental Music Education)
*Jazz studies minor
-Major Performance Medium: Tenor Trombone

Experience:

- Jefferson Junior High School: Assisted band director with teaching beginner to intermediate level
trombone students at the
Jefferson Jr. High School summer band program in Naperville, Illinois for
two summers.
- Summer of 2012: Taught and organized private lessons in Naperville, Illinois.
- Spring of 2013: MUS-E231 General Music Methods K-12
*20 hours of Field Experience
- Summer of 2013: Day Counselor at IU Summer Music Clinic
*20 + hours of Field Experience
- Summer of 2014: Cabin Counselor at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Jazz Band Assistant
- Spring 2015: Sectional teacher and band director for Indiana Universitys Young Winds program
- Summer of 2015: Blue Lake International Jazz Ensemble counselor and performer in Germany and France

Honors and Awards:

- John Philip Sousa Award
-

Voted as Events Planner for IU NAfME (National Association for Music Education) Chapter
Premier Young Artist Award Scholarship
Music Faculty Award
Jepsen International Study Scholar
Huttons International Experience Program Grant

Professional Affiliations:

- Naperville Municipal Band

- NAfME (National Association for Music Education)
*Events Planner
- NBA (National Band Association)
- Van Dril Quintet
- Jazz Institute of Chicago
- Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp: Cabin Counselor, Staff Band, Staff Jazz Ensemble, Brass Choir, Pick-up
Trombone Quartet, Pick-up Brass Quintet
- Indiana University Concert Band, Brass Choir, All-Campus Jazz Band, Marching Hundred, and Wayne
Wallace Big Band
- Indiana University Young Winds

References:
M. Dee Stewart (stewartd@indiana.edu)
- Trombone Private Lesson Teacher, Head of Department of Brass
- (812) 855-4767
Dr. Eric Smedley (esmedley@indiana.edu)
- Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Bands, and Associate Director of Athletic Bands at Indiana
University
- Department of Bands, IU Jacobs School of Music, Merill Hall 006, 1201 E. 3 rd Street, Bloomington,
Indiana 47405
- (812) 855-1372
Jordan Smith
- Unit Director at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp
- 1240 Haslett Rd. Apt. B04, East Lansing, Michigan 48823

- (334)701-2148