Dr. John Zastoupil

Dr. John Zastoupil is the Director of Concert Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at Missouri State University, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, Community Band, and Springfield Youth Wind Ensemble; teaches courses in graduate conducting and wind literature; and guides all aspects of a comprehensive concert band program and graduate conducting studio. Since arriving at MSU, Zastoupil founded the MSU Conducting Workshop and the Springfield Youth Wind Ensemble, as well as co-sponsoring the Palen Concert Clinic for concert bands hosted at Missouri State. By invitation, the MSU Wind Ensemble performed at the 2018 Missouri Music Educators Association In-Service Workshop/Conference, the 2018 College Band Directors National Association Southwestern Regional Convention (Houston, TX), an opening fanfare for the Dallas Winds concert at the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, TX, and was a semi-finalist for the American Prize in wind ensemble performance. Zastoupil has also conducted professional and student honor ensembles throughout the United States and abroad. Performances include the Metropolitan Winds, the Union Musicale “San Roque” wind ensemble of Villagordo del Cabriel (Valencia, Spain), and the Tak Ming Philharmonic Winds of Hong Kong, HK where he collaborated alongside internationally recognized euphonium soloists, Steven and Misa Mead.

He is an active adjudicator and clinician in the public schools, including clinics on conducting and ensemble pedagogy at MMEA and MBA, is a contributing author in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series published by GIA Publications, and has an online conducting video series through Music Professor. Originally from Texas, Zastoupil holds degrees from Northwestern University (DMA), the University of Michigan (MM), Baylor University (BME), and is a former student of the Aspen Music Festival and School.