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Don Colquitt
Biography
Don Colquitt is an American composer and educator.
Mr. Colquitt earned a Bachelor of Music degree in composition degree at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he studied with William Underwood.
Mr. Colquitt currently serves as band director at Texas Middle School in Texarkana, Texas, supervising band instruction for sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students. He has formerly worked in the Paris, Plano, and Hooks Independent School Districts.
In addition to his teaching career, Mr. Colquitt composes music for bands of all levels. His works have been commissioned by the Southern Arkansas University Wind Ensemble, the University Interscholastic League, the Camden High School Band, Four States Bandmasters Association, the Murfreesboro High School Band, the Crossett High School Band, and the DeKalb High School Band. His works have premiered at the Arkansas State Band and Orchestra Association Convention, Four States Bandmasters Association Convention, Texas Music Educators Association Convention, and his pieces have been performed at the Metropolitan Annual Brass Band Festival in Tokyo, Japan. Don stays busy as an arranger, adjudicator, and clinician in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana. He is the bass guitarist for the Texarkana Jazz Orchestra.
Works for Winds
- All Blessings Flow
- Alma Mater
- Almost Home
- Andantino
- Blues for JJ
- Blues for Sister Rosetta
- The Call
- Charles III
- Chorale Prelude: Blessed Assurance
- Chorale Prelude: For the Beauty of the Earth
- Chorale Prelude: I Want Jesus to Walk With Me
- Con Brio
- Crawfish Monica
- Fantasy on Two English Ayers
- Fort Jesup
- The Glass Ceiling
- Godspeed
- Good King Wenceslas (as arranger)
- Grazioso
- In Dulci Jubilo (as arranger)
- Indian Hills
- The International Concatenated Order of Hoo Hoo March
- Introduction, Passacaglia and Farewell
- Introit
- Kaleidoscope
- Kingsland Threnody
- MambaJamba (2010)
- Meagans Song
- Mean Dog Blues
- Monuments
- Moon Always Follows Me Home, The
- Natchez Trace
- Ninjas
- Nocturne
- Northshore March
- On a Theme of Samuel Barber
- On an Old Gaelic Melody
- Pastorale (Colquitt)
- Postlude
- Prelude and Allegro
- The Red Bird Lumber Company March
- Rondo
- Running With Scissors
- Scrapbook
- Second Suite
- Seminar
- Short Pierre
- Sinfonia
- Suite for Band
- Suprise Variations
- Testament
- Transformation: Prelude and Fugue
- Traveling Grace
- Twin Cities March
- Union Station March
- Vicksburg
Resources
- "Don Colquitt." Twin Towers Music Publications. Web. Accessed 12 January 2020