Paul Davis, D.M.A.
Director of Instrumental Studies
Associate Professor of Music
Conducting, music literature, instrumental studies
Paul G. Davis comes to the podium with an extensive professional background that spans
both the classical and jazz idioms in conducting, performance and teaching.
As a conductor and clinician, his musical activities have taken him throughout the
United States, Canada and Europe, including numerous Regional and All-State concerts
and a highly acclaimed concert with the Grand Orchestre d’Harmonie des Guides of Brussels,
Belgium. Dr. Davis holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Conducting from The
University of Texas at Austin.
Prior to his appointment at Webster, Dr. Davis served as a member of the conducting
faculties at the University of Alabama School of Music, the Petrie School of Music
at Converse College in South Carolina, Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia
and at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee. He has conducted celebrated performances
of the Huxford Symphony Orchestra, OperAlaBama, the Alabama Wind Ensemble and the
Alabama Chamber Winds, as well as being Founder and Music Director of the Rhodes Chamber
Players in Memphis.
As a supporter of new music, he led a commissioning project to produce Donald Grantham’s
From ‘An Alabama Songbook', and recently collaborated with Ballet Memphis in a full
stage production of Michael Whalen’s Shadows of October. His diverse experience as
a performer ranges from appearances with the Memphis Symphony to the Amy Grant NBC
Christmas telecast and includes the Spokane Symphony Orchestra and the Montana Summer
Symphony.
In his capacity as conductor and performer, he has worked with such artists as Awadagin
Pratt, Sandra Wolf-Meei Cameron, Byron Stripling, Kevin Mahogany, Bob Mintzer of the
Yellowjackets, Doc Severinsen, Maynard Ferguson and Ernie Watts. Other conducting
activities include work with Fred Mills of the Canadian Brass, the Dallas Wind Symphony,
the Empire Brass and the Monarch Brass.
