The staff and faculty of the North Florida Music Camp are made up of University of North Florida Faculty, Guest Faculty, and qualified college music students.

Guests

Ralph Ford
Ralph Ford (b. 1963) is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Troy University (AL). A native of Panama City, Florida, he has served on the university faculty in numerous areas of expertise since 1986, working mainly as the assistant director, arranger and theory instructor. Since 2001, Professor Ford has been the conductor of the Troy University Symphony Band and Chamber Winds, as well as the director of the nationally renowned “Sound of the South” Marching Band. His compositions and arrangements for band have been commissioned and performed by middle school, high school, collegiate, and professional bands worldwide. He currently serves as an exclusive composer-arranger for the Belwin division of Alfred Publications, a position he has enjoyed for over a decade. Currently, he has over 175 publications for concert band, orchestra, jazz ensemble, and marching band available worldwide. Professor Ford has served extensively in the United States and Canada as a composer, arranger, conductor, clinician, technology consultant, and adjudicator. Outside of the field of music education, he has composed, recorded, and produced music, jingles, and 3D graphic designs for radio, television, and video productions. He has won numerous “Addies,” as well as recognition and awards from various agencies and international associations for his creative work in the media field. His active professional memberships include the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity, Music Educators National Conference, the National Band Association, the Troy Rotary Club, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Sigma Alpha Iota, and Delta Chi, among others. Professor Ford has received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. He has participated in articles discussing the incorporation of electronic instruments into the modern wind ensemble and was recently a featured composer in an interview for the series Teaching Music through Performance in Band, Vol. 7. In March 2009, he was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association. He is married to Amanda Ford and they reside in Troy with their daughters, Melanie and Abby.

Dominick Eggen
Dominick Eggen is an instrumental music director at Viera High School in Brevard County, FL. He is the Florida Music Eductors' Association Member-at-Large. Mr. Eggen earned his B.M.E. and M.M.E. from Florida State University and has previously taught at middle and high schools in Palm Beach and St. Lucie counties. Under his direction, the Viera High School 7th-Hour Jazz Ensemble has consistently earned Superior ratings at the district and state levels, and was invited to perform at the 2012 FMEA Clinic-Conference. He has arranged and transcribed music for college and high school bands, and has served as an instrumental clinician throughout the state of Florida.

UNF Jazz Studies Faculty
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Learn more about the Department of Music at the University of North Florida.