Scott Lambert is past president of the Virginia Music Educators Association, past president of the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association, past president of the Virginia Chapter of Phi Beta Mu and an alumnus of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Mr. Lambert graduated with honors from East Tennessee State University and received his Masters of Music Education with honors from Radford University. He has done post graduate work at Wake Forest University, East Tennessee State University, Virginia Tech and also served as graduate teaching associate and director of the University Band at the University of South Carolina where he completed his residency and partial candidacy towards a Doctorate of Musical Arts in conducting. Lambert’s bands received seventeen Virginia Honor Band Awards during his teaching career. His bands received close to sixty superior ratings at District Concert Festivals and performed for the National Band Association Convention, twice for the Virginia Music Educators Conference and the Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic. His marching bands performed for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Niagara Falls Blossom Festival Parade, Cotton Bowl Parade, two Tournament of Roses Parades, Orange Bowl Parade and Mardi Gras Parade. Lambert's marching bands won state championships multiple times in both Virginia and South Carolina and were two time division champions in the Bands of America Southeast Regionals and were finalists in the Bands of America Grand National Championships. Lambert is a multiple recipient of the National Band Association’s Citation of Excellence, received the American School Band Directors Association’s Stanbury Award, awarded the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Legion of Honor, selected as one of the Ten Best Band Directors by Bandworld Magazine, selected twice to Outstanding Young Men of America, listed three times in Who's Who in America, listed six times in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, listed twice in Who's Who in American Education, Who’s Who in the World, the International Who's Who of Professionals and nominated for the Disney American Teacher Award. |
Scott
Lambert is president of Educational Music and Design, a company
serving music educators for over twenty years with marching band
show design, digital services including web design and on site
recording. Mr. Lambert taught thirty-one years in the public schools
of Virginia and South Carolina and served on the adjunct faculties
of the University of South Carolina, Winthrop University and Virginia Commonwealth University. Lambert
is active as a clinician, adjudicator, arranger and show designer
for bands and honor bands throughout the eastern United States.
David
Vita is a native of Virginia Beach, VA and has adjudicated,
instructed, and written for numerous bands and events throughout the
eastern seaboard. Mr. Vita's accomplishments include: Drum Corps
International Finalist with the 27th Lancers Drum & Bugle Corps,
Instructor for Bands of America National Champion Drumline, and the
Navy-Marine Corps Commendation medal.