2004 Conference Presenter

Jose Diaz
Clinician

Jose Antonio Diaz is currently in his ninth year as Director of Bands at MacArthur High School and in his seventeenth year as Director of the MacArthur High School Jazz Ensemble in Houston, Texas. During his tenure, the group has garnered many first place awards in local, regional, and national level jazz ensemble competitions and has performed with such artists as Wynton Marsalis, Jon Faddis, Danilo Perez, David Sanchez, and Arturo Sandoval, to name just a few. Diazs groups have performed three for the International Association of Jazz Educators and three times for the Midwest Clinic, an International Band and Orchestra Event. Diazs success with the MacArthur High School Jazz Program was the subject of a featured cover story in Band Directors Guide Magazine.

Jose Antonio Diaz is the founder and Artistic Director for Diaz Music Institute. Diaz Music Institute is a 501c3 nonprofit fine arts organization dedicated to development, promotion and documentation of Hispanic music.

He received a Down Beat Magazine Award for Achievement in Jazz Education and was selected by FOX 26 and Univision Television stations as Hispanic Hero. Recently, Diaz was inducted into the Texas Christian University Band of Fame.

Currently, Diaz is also the Past-president of the International Association of Jazz Educators-Texas Unit, a member of the Da Camera of Houston Teacher Advisory Board, a member of the Midwest Clinics Advisory Panel, the new jazz ensemble music reviewer for Band and Orchestra Magazine, and is an active composer, arranger, and clinician.