Bill Jobert

Lecturer, Bassoon
Coordinator of Music Education
Faculty Woodwind Quintet, bassoon

M217 Creative Arts Center
(937)775-3170
william.jobert@wright.edu

Bill Jobert is now in his eighth year at Wright State where he serves as Lecturer of Bassoon and Coordinator of Music Education.

Jobert received his master’s degree in Bassoon Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music and his major teachers include Bill Davis, John Hunt, Loren Glickman and Carl Niche. Jobert performs in the Faculty Woodwind Quintet and with the University Chamber Orchestra as well as presenting a faculty solo recital each year. Over the past three years he has commissioned and premiered works by composers Michael Issacson, Christopher Weait, and Robert Broemel on his faculty recitals and at the IDRS conference. He also served for several years as principal bassoonist and personnel manager in the Lebanon Symphony Orchestra and is on the sub list for the Dayton Philharmonic, Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony, and the Middletown Symphony Orchestra.

Jobert received his bachelor’s degree is in Music Education from the University of Georgia and student taught at Lassiter High School under Alfred Watkins. He taught for over 12 years in public school, directing bands at the middle and high school levels and building award winning instrumental programs in upstate New York and Raleigh, North Carolina. Since moving to Ohio, Jobert has worked on the Mason high school marching band staff, began building a large high school bassoon studio which he still maintains today. He held the position of assistant marching band director at Lebanon high school for 4 years and has been a woodwind adjudicator for OMEA for the past 6 years. He has also served as a band and orchestra adjudicator for Showcase Music Festivals and at the Alberta Band Association Concert Band Festival in Canada.

Currently Jobert is the National Scoring Supervisor for edTPA Performing Arts and works with the SCALE team at Stanford University. He does state and national presentations and has published several articles on edTPA.

Outside of all of that Jobert manages to make time for his family and to read a book or two. He is a huge Stephen King fan, having read almost everything published by the master of the macabre Careful to never going as far as to say that he is King's number one fan, as that would just be farmhouse-in-the-middle-of-the-woods creepy, Jobert would be amazing to meet King someday. Other authors he enjoys include the Robert Jordan, Joe Hill, Tobias Wolf, and DJ Molles.