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 Joel May is beginning his
first year with the James E. Taylor High School Band. He will be
conducting the Concert Band as well as teaching the Taylor Drum Line. As
the percussion teacher, he will be teaching the beginning percussionists
at Memorial Parkway and McMeans Junior High Schools.
Mr. May earned an undergraduate Music Education degree from Baylor
University. He participated in many of the ensembles including the Wind
Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Golden Wave Marching Band, Percussion
Ensemble, Jazz Band, and even Courtside Players. He has performed with
several professional groups including the Waco Symphony and So
Percussion. He was a sustaining member of the Dallas Mavericks Drum Line
for the last two seasons, but has been performing with them since 2004.
Before teaching at Taylor High School, Mr. May was teaching at South
Grand Prairie High School. He spent the last two years
there teaching band and percussion at the high school and three of the
middle schools. He has also taught and performed in WGI Percussion and
Drum Corps. He has been a Drum Line Technician at several other high
schools before going to Grand Prairie and currently teaches summer Drum
Line camps all over the state.
Mr. May is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas
Bandmasters Association, the Percussive Arts Society, and Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia.
Mr. May can be contacted by phone at 281.237.9267 or e-mail at
JoelMay@KatyISD.org.
Thank you to PICHE
Photography for providing photographs of our Directors.
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