Frederick Speck, Director of Bands at the University of Louisville, conducts the Wind Symphony and New Music Ensemble, teaches graduate conducting, and serves as Chair for the Department of Performance Studies. He is also the artistic director and conductor of Chamber Winds Louisville and the Louisville Concert Band. Under his leadership, ensembles have performed at KMEA Conferences, CBDNA Southern Division Conferences, the CBDNA National Conference, the MENC National Conference, Midwest Clinics, the American Bandmasters Convention, the Jungfrau Music Festival in Interlaken, Switzerland, and World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conferences in Killarney, Ireland, San Jose, California, and Prague, Czech Republic. His articles on pedagogy and performance have been published in WASBE World and The American Bandmasters Journal of Band Research and he has been invited to present lectures at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles Conference in Utrecht, the Netherlands and the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Förderung der Blasmusik in Bern, Switzerland.

As a composer his works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. His “Philomel’s Refrain,” was cited as “vivid, driven music” by the New York Times. Speck’s compositions have been performed by ensembles such as the Louisville Orchestra, the Denver Symphony, the Senzoku Gakuen Wind Ensemble, Mushashino Academia Musicae Wind Ensemble, Speculum Musicae, and recorded by such artists as Richard Stoltzman, and the Washington Winds. Twice the recipient of the University of Louisville President’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Creativity, his work has also been recognized through fellowships and commissions from the Barlow Endowment, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts, and the Indiana Arts Commission. He is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association and Past President of the College Band Directors National Association Southern Division. Speck earned the BM and MM from Bowling Green State University and the DMA from the University of Maryland.