Casey Speed

Casey Speed is a principal lecturer currently serving as director of athletic bands at the University of New Hampshire, where she teaches undergraduate courses in the areas of conducting and music education and directs the Wildcat Marching Band, UNH Symphonic Band, and Beast of the East Pep Band. Additionally, she is a faculty member and assistant coordinator of the University of New Hampshire Summer Youth Music School (SYMS) and a former conductor of the New Hampshire Youth Band. Speed earned her Bachelor of Music in music education and her Master of Arts in music with an emphasis in music education and wind conducting from the University of New Hampshire in 2001 and 2006, respectively. While enrolled in graduate school, Speed was a graduate assistant with the University of New Hampshire bands and music department.

She is a member of the College Band Directors' National Association (CBDNA), New Hampshire Music Educators' Association (NHMEA), National Association for Music Education (NAfME), and the National Band Association. Speed serves on the CBDNA Athletic Bands Committee and as the higher education representative on the NHMEA Council for Band Education. At UNH, Speed advises the chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi and serves on the Department of Music Recruiting, Retention, and Scholarship Committee and as representative to the UNH Lecturers’ Union.

Previously, she served as New Hampshire State Chair for the National Band Association, as a Director on the NHMEA board of directors, on several committees for NHMEA, and as Northeast District Governor of and on the national nominations and curriculum committees for Kappa Kappa Psi, national honorary fraternity for college band members.

Prior to her appointment at UNH, Speed was the director of instrumental music at Marshwood High School in South Berwick, Maine, where she directed the MHS Concert Band, Marshwood Marching Hawks, Jazz Band, and pit orchestras for the district and high school musicals; started a string ensemble; and taught general music courses. The Marshwood Marching Hawks competed in the Maine Band Directors’ Association circuit, and Speed served as the webmaster for that organization.

In 2010, Speed had privilege to perform on marching baritone with the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps alumni in exhibition at the Drum Corps International World Championships in Indianapolis, Indiana.

In addition to her work at UNH, she is also an active guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician throughout the northeast United States and has written drill and arranged music for several New England marching bands.

Information about the UNH bands may be found at: bands.unh.edu