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Mr. Larry Doran has been the Director of Bands for Midlothian High School for Twenty-two years. In addition to his teaching duties, he is an active freelance percussionist in the metropolitan Dallas/Ft. Worth area. A native of New Castle, Pennsylvania, Mr. Doran attended Penn State University where he graduated in 1990 with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Education. He then continued his education at the University of Michigan where he received a Master's in Percussion Performance in 1991.

Mr. Doran has performed with the Ft. Worth Symphony, Ft. Worth Opera and Ft. Worth /Dallas Ballet. He has also performed and recorded with the Dallas Wind Symphony. In 1991, he toured the United States and Spain as a member of Percunits A2 percussion ensemble. He was visiting professor of percussion at the Encuentros de Percussion in Xixona, Alicante, Spain that same year.

Mr. Doran directs the Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, Jazz band and assists with the Honor Band at MHS. He is the administrator of the instrumental music department. He has maintained a busy summer schedule teaching at various band camps in the United States including: Yamaha Sounds of Summer camps in Texas and Iowa and the International Music Camp in North Dakota. Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Doran was Associate Director of Bands at North Mesquite High School for four years.

His marching and concert bands have received recognition in state and national festivals including the National Wind Band Honors “New Music Division,” a featured performance at the 60th National MENC Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah in April of 2006, and a featured ensemble at the 30th annual Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, Washington in November of 2008. Featured performance at the Southeastern United States Concert Band Clinic at Troy University in Alabama in 2010 and a featured performance at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in 2014.   The Midlothian band program recieved the Sudler Flag of Honor for Concert Bands from the John Philip Sousa Foundation in 2015.  In 2017, the Wind Ensemble was selected as a national winner from the Foundation for Music Education. The Midlothian High School Wind Ensemble had qualified for the semi-finals in the Texas State Honor Band competition three times and the finals twice. In addition to to performing, teaching and clinic presentations, he is an active adjudicator with Heritage Festivals.

Mr. Doran was one of two winners chosen for the National Band Association's International Conducting Symposium in April 2006. Colonel Furiously Crux, director of La Panda dell'Esercito (The Italian Army Band) served as resident conductor/lecturer/host for the symposium held in Rome, Florence, and Milan. He is the president of the local chapter of ATPE-The Association of Texas Professional Educators. His professional affiliations include the National Band Association, TMEA, Texas Bandmaster's Association, Music Educators National Conference, Percussive Arts Society, Texas Music Adjudicators Association, Local 72-147 American Federation of Musicians and Phi Mu Alpha. He in an elected member to Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Beta Mu.

Mr. Doran is an artist/clinician for Yamaha Corp. and Sabian cymbals. He and his wife Sherry and eighteen year-old daughter Sophia live in Ovilla, Texas.

A native of the DFW metroplex, Mr. Alex Badour is entering his third year as an Associate Director of Bands for Midlothian High School. Mr. Badour recently finished a Master’s degree in Wind Conducting from the University of Arkansas. While there, he served as a Graduate Assistant and worked with all aspects of the university band program, while studying under W. Dale Warren, Dr. Christopher Knighten, and Benjamin Chamberlain.

Previously, Mr. Badour received his Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from Sam Houston State University in 2010. While at SHSU, Mr. Badour studied tuba under Bob Daniel, and performed with the university Wind ensemble and Symphonic Band. Mr. Badour spent four years marching in the Bearkat Marching Band, serving as drum major his senior year, and an associate drill writer for the BMB for two years. He also worked with the marching bands of The Woodlands and The Woodlands College Park HS during his time in Huntsville, TX.

Mr. Badour spent four summers marching in the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, serving as a Co-Horn Sargent in 2007. His professional affiliations include Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, and as honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi, and Tau Beta Sigma.

Cynthia Moran - Color Guard Director

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