Directors

Ted Shistle is the Director of Bands at Douglas Anderson School of the Arts. He was Director of Bands at Jacksonville University from 2023 – 2025 where his responsibilities included directing the JU Wind Ensemble, coaching chamber groups, and teaching courses in wind band literature and analysis of popular music. He taught at Douglas Anderson School Arts from 2013 – 2023 where his bands performed at the Florida Music Educator’s Convention, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the CBDNA/NBA Southern Division Conference (twice), and the International Music Festival in Carnegie Hall. Mr. Shistle is active as an adjudicator throughout the state of Florida, and he is an active bassoonist making frequent appearances with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Coastal Symphony Orchestra.

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