Four State Honor Band

2025 Clinicians

Dr. Erik Leung

Dr. Erik Leung serves at the director of bands at Oregon State University where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting and oversees all aspects of the band program. Prior to his appointment at OSU, Leung was the director of bands at Fresno Pacific University. Groups under his direction have been featured at the Western International Band Clinic, the Percy Grainger Wind Festival, the NW NAfME Conference, the WNW CBDNA Conference and the first-ever small band program showcase at the College Band Directors National Association.

Leung is a native of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts in wind conducting from Northwestern University and has earned degrees from the University of Toronto (M.Mus) and the University of Calgary (B.Mus with distinction; B.Ed). His teachers include Mallory Thompson, Gillian Mackay, Glenn Price, Mark Hopkins and Jeremy Brown. 

Leung has written articles for the Canadian Winds and created the critical edition of Jan Meyerowitz’s “Three Comments on War” for concert band, published through the E.B. Marks Music Company. His upcoming book “Stories of Courage, Strength, and Triumph of Underrepresented Communities in the Wind Band Field” will be published in fall 2020 by GIA Music Publications. He has presented at a variety of conferences throughout North America and Europe including the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the national College Band Directors National Association convention and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in Utrecht, Netherlands.

Leung has been nominated for the Edwin Parr Teaching Award, was a semi-finalist for the Alberta Excellence in Teaching Award and received the merit award for teaching excellence at Fresno Pacific University. He holds memberships in the College Band Directors National Association, World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the Oregon Music Educators Association and the Canadian Band Association.

Dr. Catharine Sinon Bushman

Dr. Catharine Sinon Bushman is the Wind Ensemble Conductor and Assistant Professor of Music Education at St. Cloud State University. Previously, Dr. Bushman served on the faculty of Winthrop University. In 2016 Dr. Bushman became the conductor of the St. Cloud Municipal Band, an all-adult band of musicians that performs year-round in central Minnesota. Dr. Bushman began her teaching career as Director of Bands at Crystal Lake Central High School in Crystal Lake, Illinois. She was the Associate Director of Bands at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia from 1998-2007.

At Lassiter, Dr. Bushman was director of MB II, the second marching band, and later continued as associate director and woodwind caption head with Marching Band I, the primary ensemble. The Lassiter Marching "Trojan" Band is a 280-member organization that has performed at the Tournament of Roses Parade, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, and has won numerous regional and national championships. In 2002 Mrs. Bushman conducted the Symphonic II Band's third performance as an invited ensemble at the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis.

Dr. Bushman received the DMA in Wind Conducting at The University of Texas at Austin in 2012. She holds degrees in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University. She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Music. She maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician for marching and concert bands. In 2009, she presented a clinic at the Texas Music Educators Conference, sharing her research on a successful band program in a disadvantaged southwest Texas community.