Dr. Michael Crist
Director, Dana School of Music
Professor of Trombone

3049 Bliss Hall
330/941-1827 (studio)
330/941-1490 (fax)
mrcrist@ysu.edu

Michael Crist has been a member of the Dana School of Music faculty since 1983.  His teaching responsibilities have included; applied trombone, assistant band director, director of Jazz Ensemble II and III, conductor of the Dana Trombone Ensemble, and numerous classes in music education and music technology.  Dr. Crist currently serves as Director of the Dana School of Music. Prior to coming to Youngstown State University, Dr. Crist taught music in public schools in upstate New York.  Dr. Crist’s degrees include a B.M. and B.M.E. form Ithaca College, New York, a M.M. in trombone performance from Youngstown State University, and a Ph.D. in music education from Kent State University.  Dr. Crist has studied conducting with Edward Gobrecht, Edward Lisk, Robert Fleming, and Wayne Gorder.  His trombone teachers include Frank Brown, William Harris, Bruce Burritt, Charles Dalkert, Allen Ostrander, Vern Kagarice, and James Desano.  Dr. Crist is principal trombone with the Youngstown Symphony and the Warren Philharmonic Orchestra.  He has also performed with the Tri-Cities Opera, Binghamton Symphony, Broome County (NY) Pops Orchestra, and the Cleveland Opera Orchestra.  Dr. Crist is an active member of the International Trombone Association, where he served as a member of the Scholarship Committee, and as Membership Chair for the state of Ohio.  Dr. Crist has been published in the International Trombone Association Journal, the O.M.E.A. Triad, Dialogues In Instrumental Music Education, Dissertations Abstracts, Contributions To Music Education, and has served as Editor of  Contributions To Music Education.  Dr. Crist also serves as chair of the O.M.E.A. Research Committee and is currently Associate Editor of Contributions to Music Education. Dr. Crist is also president of the Ohio Association of Music Schools. Dr. Crist is a member of the Dana Faculty Brass Quintet, which recently released the Quintet’s first CD, Apocalypse.  Dr. Crist also released his own CD, What To Do, featuring twentieth century music for the trombone.