Instrumental Music Faculty

Education

• Bachelors in Music Education, University of North Texas
• Masters in Music Education, University of North Texas
• Masters in Euphonium Performance, University of North Texas
• Candidate for PhD in Music Education, George Mason University

Curriculum Vitae

Alison Miserendino is an active teacher, performer, and clinician. She is currently a member of the United States Air Force Band’s Ceremonial Brass and adjunct professor of euphonium at West Chester University. She specializes in finding balance between music performance and education, and effective practice strategy. Prior to her career in the Air Force Band, Alison taught middle school band in Northern California. She attributes her success in winning a job as a premier military bandsman to being able to coach herself the way she coached her students. Her primary instructors and mentors in music are Jen Cox (ret. USAF Band), Roger Behrend (ret. Navy Band), Dr. Brian Bowman (ret. USAF Band), and Dr. Donna Emmanuel (ret. faculty emerita, UNT Music Education).

Alison is currently pursuing a PhD in Music Education at George Mason University, focusing her research on the areas of deliberate and self-regulated practice.

Some of her personal career highlights in the USAF Band to date include:

• Performing in front of the Edinburgh Castle every night for a month as a participant in the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
• Performing in the ceremonial unit for the funeral service of Brigadier General Charles McGee, one of the last-living Tuskegee Airmen
• Performing in the arrival and departure ceremony for the funeral of President Jimmy Carter
• Meeting Major Mary “Dottie” McGuirk, who happened to be in the audience at one of the USAF Band concerts when the band was touring Maine. Major McGuirk was honorably discharged when she became a mother in 1968, and in 1971 (after writing tirelessly to Congressmen, Senators, and the Secretary of the Air Force) was the first female to be reinstated as a nurse in the Air Force, making it possible for women to have a family and remain in the military service.