Originally from Cedartown, GA, Casey Thomas received his undergraduate degree in Music Education from Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, AL., where his teacher was Dr. Jim Roberts. During his time in JSU he served for three years as the horn line captain head with the "Marching Southerners" band and for two years as a brass instructor with the "Spirit from JSU" drum and bugle corps, student director of the basketball pep band and conductor of the brass choir. Since 2003, he has been pursuing a concurrent Masters and Doctorate of Musical Arts in Trombone Performance from the University of Iowa, where he studies with Dr. David Gier.  During the spring semester of 2006, Mr. Thomas was the Visiting Director of Bands at Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, IA. Currently he serves as the adjunct instructor of low brass at Cornell College and St. Ambrose University in Davenport, IA. He is also the conductor of the Iowa Brass Choir, which is affiliated with the University of Iowa. He is the former bass trombonist with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra and the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band and has performed with the Ottumwa, Muscatine and the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestras. During the summer of 2007 he was selected by Joe Alessi, principal trombonist of the New York Philharmonic, as one of sixteen participants in his prestigious "Alessi Seminar". Mr Thomas is a member of the Phi Mu Alpha music fraternity, Omicron Delta Kappa and is a member and contributing music resource editor with the International Trombone Association. Director Emeritus John deSalme

Casey Thomas