Senior Music Administrator, Florida Public Schools
Lindsey Williams is the K-12 Performing Arts Curriculum Specialist for Seminole County Public Schools (Florida, USA). Prior to his appointment with SCPS, he was the Assistant Director of Bands and a member of the music education faculty at West Virginia University, and a member of the music education faculty at University of Missouri–Kansas City, and Kansas State University. Dr. Williams’ public school teaching experience includes elementary, junior high, high school, and senior adult instrumental and choral music. He has a passion for senior adult music making opportunities. Williams is the former music director of wind bands for senior adults for the Roeland Park New Horizons Band (Kansas, USA) and founder and former music director of the MonRiver New Horizons Band (West Virginia, USA). He is an active performer, conductor, and clinician for music educators and musicians from youth to senior adults throughout the United States and Southeast Asia. Williams earned his doctorate (PhD) in Music Education with an emphasis in Wind Conducting from The Florida State University, and Music Education degrees from the University of Kansas (BME, MME).
Williams was named a Fulbright Scholar and worked with music education students, faculty, and researchers in Thailand. He was founding editor or the ASEAN Music Journal. A respected and published researcher and member of research review boards of both International Journal of Music Education, Contributions to Music Education, and Research Perspectives in Music Education and is currently the incoming president of the Florida Music Supervision Association (a component organization for the Florida Music Education Association). He has presented research at state, regional, national, and international conferences of the International Society for Music Education, National Association for Music Education, and the American Music Therapy Association and has been published in peer-reviewed journals including the Journal of Research in Music Education, International Journal of Music Education, Update: Applications of Research in Music Education, Journal of Band Research, Contributions to Music Education, and the Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education as well as Kansas Music Review and Missouri School Music. His research interests include life-long learning, musicians’ focus of attention, musical complexity, music assessment and evaluation, and music teacher training.
