Craig Mason
Musical Director of Madison Brass Band
A graduate of Stoughton High School, Craig Mason attended UW Platteville, where he received a Comprehensive Music Education Degree (Vocal, Instrumental, and General). In the Spring of 2009, he received his Masters of Music Education from UW Madison. He has taught 5-12 Band and Choir in Pepin, Wisconsin, 7th and 8th grade band at Stoughton Middle School and he has most recently taught for over 20 years at Stoughton High School, where he taught Music Theory, and was the conductor of the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensemble, Marching Band, Pit Orchestra, and several chamber ensembles. Craig Mason was selected for the Kohl Fellowship in 1989 and has been selected for Who’s Who in America’s Teachers numerous times, as well as being selected for Who’s Who in America. He has taught many band clinics, judges marching band contests and solo & ensemble festivals. In the Winter of 2008-2009, Craig was selected as Wisconsin’s “most influential music educator”, by School Band and Orchestra Magazine. He has arranged and composed for many marching bands, concert bands, chamber ensembles, and drum and bugle corps around the United States, Europe and Japan. Several of his arrangements and compositions can be found on his website: http://members.sibeliusmusic.com/mason Craig was also a marching member of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps from 1976 through 1985, and was also on the brass staff through 1991. He was also selected to be one of the drum majors for the Madison Scouts Alumni Reunion Project in the summer of 2006, in which over 250 Madison Scouts Alumni rehearsed and performed in the Madison area. Craig has been the conductor for the Madison Brass Band since 2006.