Music Director

Fox Valley Brass Band

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Victor Anderson teaches Instrumental Music at Yorkville High School and serves as Music Department Chair for Yorkville Community Unit School District #115. Previous positions include Jacobs High School (Algonquin, Illinois), Galesburg School District #205 (Galesburg, Illinois), and Community Unit School District #201 (Aledo, Illinois). Under Mr. Anderson’s direction, the Yorkville High School Music Department has expanded their offerings from six curricular ensembles serving 200 students to 13 curricular performing ensembles, two general music courses, and AP Music Theory; involving more than 600 students daily.  The Yorkville High School Wind Ensemble has performed at The University of Illinois SuperState Concert Band Festival five times, earning the “Honor Band'' distinction in 2012 and 2014. In 2013, the ensemble had their debut performance at Orchestra Hall in Chicago. In 2016 and 2022, the ensemble was featured as a “Showcase Band” at the annual Western Illinois University Showcase of Bands Festival. The ensemble performed a concert at the 2017 Illinois Music Educators Conference. The Yorkville High School Wind Ensemble works regularly with world-renowned performers, clinicians, conductors, and composers.

 

Mr. Anderson received a Bachelors of Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University, a Masters of Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and completed administrative certification through Aurora University. In the 2015 December edition of School Band & Orchestra Magazine, Mr. Anderson was named the Illinois recipient of “50 Directors Who Make A Difference”. Mr. Anderson is a 2016 recipient of the Quinlan & Fabish Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator Award, a 2017 & 2018 Music Educator Grammy Award nominee, has been recognized as a Y115 Most Influential Educator numerous times, and in 2022 was recognized by the Yorkville Education Foundation as Educator of the Year. In 2021, Mr. Anderson was inducted into the prestigious ASBDA (American School Band Directors Association). As a trombonist, Mr. Anderson performs regularly with The Vern Spevak Big Band. Mr. Anderson conducts the Yorkville Community Band, Yorkville Big Band, and has guest conducted the Batavia Community Band, Fox Valley Concert Band, the ILMEA District 2 Junior Jazz Band and the ILMEA District 9 Senior Jazz Band.

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