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DMA, Louisiana State University
MA, University of Alabama
BS, University of Alabama
About Me
Corey Spurlin serves as Professor of Music, Marching Band Director, and Associate Director of Bands at Auburn University. In addition to his leadership of the athletic band program, he conducts the Concert Band, is associate conductor of the Auburn Symphonic Winds, and teaches courses in undergraduate and graduate conducting, wind band literature, and graduate instrumental leadership. Under his leadership, the Auburn University Marching Band recently won the inaugural Metallica Marching Band Competition. For the past eight years, Dr. Spurlin has served as the Southern Division Chair for the National Band Association. He is also a member of Phi Beta Mu International Band Fraternity and CBDNA, for which he has served on the athletic band committee for six years.
Dr. Spurlin is also active throughout the U.S. as a conducting and marching band clinician and adjudicator. He recently served as the director of the D-Day 80th Anniversary Collegiate Mass Band, which performed for the the 80th Anniversary D-Day celebrations in France, June 2024. He has conducted the Alabama All-State Blue Band; collegiate honor bands at Colorado State University, University of Georgia, West Virginia University, and Southern Illinois University; and he served as a marching band adjudicator for the University of Hawaii, University of Illinois, University of Missouri, Washington State University, BYU, Eastern New Mexico University, and for UIL Texas State Finals. He has served as a guest lecturer and/or conductor at the University of Oklahoma, University of West Virginia, Georgia State University, Ohio State University, University of Alabama Birmingham, University of Texas Wesleyan, University of Texas at Arlington, Eastern New Mexico University, and the University of Akron. He is published in six volumes of Teaching Music Through Performance in Band, twice in the National Band Association Journal, and he is a contributing author for the marching band textbook The System by Gary Smith. He has presented twelve times at the CBDNA Athletic Band Symposium, co-presented at the Midwest Clinic, presented twice for the Reach Through Music series, and was as a feature guest for Music for All Lunchtime Chats. In addition, he served for 13 years as the head drill design clinician at the Smith Walbridge Camps at Eastern Illinois University.