Associate Director
Bands
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
P: 225.578.2384
F: 225.578.2562
E: moorhous@lsu.edu

Linda R. Moorhouse (Associate Director of Bands). Appointed to the LSU music faculty in 1985, Dr. Moorhouse conducts the LSU Symphonic Winds, and is Co-Director of the LSU Tiger Marching Band, where she serves as the primary instructor, overseeing administrative activities in addition to drill and show design. In addition, Dr. Moorhouse teaches courses in undergraduate conducting, and she administers the LSU Summer Music Camps.

Dr. Moorhouse is a past recipient of LSU's Tiger Athletic FoundationPresident's Award, a campus-wide award for teaching excellence, in addition to the School of Music Excellence in Teaching Award. Outside LSU, she has been recognized by the John Philip Sousa Foundation with the Sudler Order of Merit, is a Member Laureate of Sigma Alpha Iota, and has received the Silver Baton and Golden Rose awards from the Women Band Directors International. Honored by the National Band Association with the Citation of Excellence, she has received the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Bandmaster Award for Louisiana, and has been recognized by Who's Who Among America's Teachers. Her biography will be included in the upcoming edition of the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and the Grove Music Online edition.

Off campus, Dr. Moorhouse maintains an active schedule having appeared as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator throughout the United States, and in Japan, Western Europe and Canada. An elected member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association, she serves as a Past President and Executive Secretary-Treasurer of the National Band Association. Dr. Moorhouse also serves on the Sudler Trophy Committee of the John Philip Sousa Foundation, and is a member of CBDNA and Phi Beta Mu.

Dr. Moorhouse has served as a contributing author for five volumes of the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series (GIA Publications). She is also a contributing author for three books: A Composer's Insight–-Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band (Volumes 2 and 3, Meredith Music), and The Music Directors Cookbook (Meredith Music). In addition, she is editor of The NBA Journal, official journal of the National Band Association.

Dr. Moorhouse received a Bachelor of Music Education from the University of Florida, a Master of Music Education from LSU, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Washington.