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Si Millican
Assistant Professor, Instrumental Music Education(210)458-5334
si.millican@utsa.eduSi Millican joined the University of Texas at San Antonio in the fall of 2007. He teaches courses in Instrumental Music Education and works extensively with the Music Education Performance Lab and the Institute for Music Research. Dr. Millican was born and raised in Texas and graduated from Temple (TX) High School. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Instrumental Music Education from the University of North Texas in Denton where he studied clarinet with Dr. John Scott and Dr. James Gillespie. His concentration at the University of North Texas was Instrumental Conducting; his primary instructors in this area were Dr. Robert Winslow, Dennis Fisher, and Eugene Corporon.
For thirteen years prior to his university work, Dr. Millican was a public school teacher in the Arlington, Lewisville, and Belton school districts teaching at the high-school and middle-school levels. His concert, marching, and jazz bands performed at a consistently high level. While at Lamar Middle School, the Symphonic Band was a Texas State Honor Band Finalist twice. At Belton High School, the Marching 100 made it to the State Marching Contest twice and finished as high as sixth place in class 4A.
Dr. Millican received a Ph.D. in Music Education from The University of Okalahoma in Norman. While at OU, Dr. Millican studied conducting with Dr. William K. Wakefield and worked extensively in the music education department with Dr. Michael Raiber and Dr. Nancy Barry.
Millican’s research interests include essential knowledge and skills used by successful instrumental music teachers, mentoring and induction of new teachers, and social role development and teacher identity in undergraduate music education students. He has presented his research into music education mentor programs at the 60th National Biennial In-Service Conference of the National Association for Music Education in Salt Lake City, UT. He has also published in The Instrumentalist. Dr. Millican’s dissertation is Secondary instrumental music teachers’ evaluation of essential knowledge and skills for successful teaching.
Dr. Millican remains an active clinician and adjudicator across the state of Texas and is on the Active Concert Band list of the Texas Music Adjudicators Association. Millican arranges marching band music for schools across the United States .
Dr. Millican’s wife, Sherry, is a private voice instructor in San Antonio. They have a son and a daughter in elementary school and a cat named Elvis.
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