Christopher Metcalfe

Rockwood High School Band, Rockwood Middle School Band, Roane State Community College

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  Christopher Metcalfe received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Tennessee Technological University (1997). As a student, he studied private trombone with Professors Larry Hoepfinger and Dr. Kevin Chiarizzio, and conducting with Joseph Hermann. While at Tennessee Technological University, Christopher Metcalfe earned several honors including Phi Mu Alpha's Outstanding Musician (1997), and membership into the leading ensembles of the institution.  Christopher Metcalfe accepted a position with Lewis County Schools as band director in 1998. He developed a competitive marching band that won championships throughout Tennessee and Alabama. In his two of his three years there, bands were ranked in the top ten bands in the Division Two State Marching Band Championship. Christopher Metcalfe returned to Rockwood High School in 2001. Since that time, the band program has doubled in size, and has won many honors which include being ranked in the top ten of marching bands from Division 1A schools for seven years and being honored as the USSBA Tennessee State Champion for 2011 in Group IIIA.  Christopher Metcalfe has earned individual honors such as being selected two times for WBIR Band of the Week, and WBIR Educator of the Week. He has been recognized twice by the Governor's School for the Arts as an Outstanding Teacher, twice as a Who's Who of American Teachers, Who's Who in America, and a nominee for Disney's Outstanding Teacher program. He was also selected as Rockwood High School's Teacher of the Year for school year 2010-2011. Christopher Metcalfe completed his Master of Music in Music Education at Boston University (2011).    As a performer, Christopher Metcalfe has performed with the O.J Cummins Big Band Sound, Bryan Symphony Orchestra, Cumberland County Playhouse as principal trombonist in productions of "Hello, Dolly!", "The Music Man", and "My Fair Lady", various popular music ensembles (as a guitarist), and the Rockwood First Presbyterian Church Choir. He currently work as a music educator at Rockwood High School in Rockwood, TN and as an adjunct music faculty member for Roane State Community College in Harriman, TN. Christopher Metcalfe is active as a clinician, performer, educator, and adjudicator throughout East Tennessee. He holds memberships in NEA, TEA, RCEA, NAfME, ETSBOA, Phi Mu Alpha, and TSSBDA. Christopher Metcalfe is a past president of TSSBDA.