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Bill Jobert

Instructor of Bassoon, and Assistant Director of Bands
Faculty Woodwind Quintet, bassoon
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M217 Creative Arts Center
(937)775-3170
william.jobert@wright.edu

Bill Jobert is the applied bassoon instructor at Wright State University.  At Wright State University he also performs in the faculty woodwind quintet and the university chamber orchestra, conducts the WSU Concert Band, coordinates the instrumental student teaching program, and teaches music education classes.  He holds a bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Georgia and a master’s degree in bassoon performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music.  His major teachers include Bill Davis, John Hunt, Loren Glickman and Carl Niche.

With over 15 years of public school teaching experience, Mr. Jobert has been a band director at the middle school and high school levels directing award winning instrumental programs in upstate New York and Raleigh, North Carolina.  Since his arrival in Ohio he has worked on the Mason high school marching band staff and is currently the assistant marching band director at Lebanon high school.

As a bassoonist, Mr. Jobert is principal in the Lebanon Symphony and is on several sub lists in the greater Cincinnati area.  He serves as the bassoon studio instructor for the Mason school district and has developed a large studio of students from many  area schools including Loveland, Lakota East, and Milford.  He is a woodwind adjudicator for OMEA and serves as a band and orchestra judge for Showcase Music Festivals.  In 2009 he served as Artist-In-Residence for the Wilmington High School band and performed with their Wind Ensemble as guest soloist at the OMEA conference in Columbus, Ohio.