CURVIN FARNHAM is a Professor of Music and Director of Bands at the University of Maine in Orono, Maine where he conducts the University Symphonic Band, teaches courses in instrumental music education and teaches conducting at the graduate level.
Professor Farnham received his B.M. in Music Education from the Northern Conservatory of Music and did his graduate work at the Vandercook College of Music in Chicago. He has studied conducting with Richard Castiglione formerly of the Boston Conservatory and Anthony Maiello, Director of Instrumental Studies at George Mason University.
He is past president of the Maine Music Educators Association. In 1985 he was elected to the American School Band Directors Association and in 1990 he become a member of Pi Kappa Lambda. Mr. Farnham holds membership in the Music Educators National Conference, the College Band Directors National Association, the New England College Band Directors Association, and the National Band Association . He holds honorary membership in both Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma. In the Spring of 2001 he was recognized as Music Educator of the Year by the Maine Music Educators Association.
Mr. Farnham appears throughout the United States and Canada as a clinician, adjudicator and conductor and has guest conducted at several national and international festivals including the Atlantic Band Festival in Halifax Nova Scotia, the Music Educators National Conference Eastern Division Conference, The International Band Festival in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Music in May Festival at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon and the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.
In the spring of 2009, he was guest conductor of the DoDDS / Europe Honor Band in Wiesbaden, Germany and conducted the University of Maine Symphonic Band at Symphony Hall in Boston.
