Clifton G. Croomes

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I am originally from Houston,Texas. I began my music career in 1989 at Shotwell Middle School. I studied with Doug Harrington from 6-8 grade. Then i studied with John Hinojosa at Eisenhower High School. I graduated in the spring of 1995 and was accepted to the school of music at the University of Texas @ Austin. I was a member of the UT Wind Ensemble under the direction of Jerry F. Junkin and UT Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dr. Timothy Muffet and Kevin Noe. I studied percussion with George Frock. In the spring of 1998 I became a member of the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps from Rosemont,Illinois. There I studied with Erik Johnson, Bret Kuhn, Mike Macintosh, John Brennan and Uichi Kajiyama.

I graduated from UT in the spring of 2001 and accepted a job at Westview Middle School in Pflugerville, Texas. I also taught percussion at Pflugerville High School. In 2003 I accepted a job in Bastrop,Texas as Director of Percussion for BISD. In the spring of 2004 the Bastrop HS Percussion Theater was named the Scholastic AA Texas Color Guard Circuit State Champion. In the summer of 2004 I returned for my second year as a UT Longhorn Music Camp faculty member. I was also a percussion instructor for Teal Sound Drum and Bugle Corps. This is my 4th year as assistant directory at MacArthur.  This summer I was on the staff of the Crossmen with Drum Corps International.