2018 – Gregory Gumina

Gregory L. Gumina is Assistant Band Director at Shades Valley High School, a position he has held for since 1997. He conducts the Concert Band, Percussion Ensemble. He teaches Music Theory & Composition and Music Industry & Technology. Mr. Gumina is also Music Arranger and Marching Band Coordinator for the school.

Mr. Gumina earned a Bachelor of Arts in Music from West Virginia University with a Minor in Business Administration. He earned a Master of Arts in Music Education from the University of Alabama. Currently, he is pursuing a Ph.D in Global Leadership with a specialty in Educational Leadership and Administration at Troy University. He was a graduate assistant in the University Bands Department UA and was the Arranger/Instructor for the percussion section of the Million Dollar Band. Mr. Gumina is the former Director of Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps from Mobile, Alabama.

Mr. Gumina’s ensembles have performed at the 2001 NASPAAM International Convention, the 2006 Alabama Music Educators Association Conference, the 2011 Music for All Sandy Feldstein National Percussion Festival, the 2013 Southeastern United States Band Festival, the 2013 Alabama Music Educators Association Conference, and more than 10 Percussive Arts Society Days of Percussion throughout the Southeast.

Mr. Gumina has extensive experience as an adjudicator and clinician for bands and percussion groups. He is also an active composer and arranger. He has published over 40 compositions and arrangements. His works have been performed by bands and ensembles from middle school through college. His compositions for both middle school band and percussion ensemble have been premiered at Professional Conferences on 5 occasions.

Mr. Gumina served as President of the Alabama Music Educators Association (2018-2020), and is currently the Immediate Past-President. Mr. Gumina has served on the Arts Advisory Board and the Curriculum Writing Committee for the Jefferson County School System, and is a Nation Board Certified Teacher. Mr. Gumina is a member of AMEA, ABA, NAfME, NBA, and Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. He was inducted into the International School Bandmasters Fraternity Phi Beta Mu in 2019.

Greg resides in Trussville with his wife Gina and their daughter Giada, and he is an avid HO scale model railroader in his spare time.