Ralph Ford

Ralph Ford (born 1963) is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Troy University. A native of Panama City, Florida, he has served on the university faculty in numerous areas of expertise since 1986, working mainly as the assistant director, arranger and theory instructor. Since 2001, Professor Ford has been the conductor of the Troy University Symphony Band and Chamber Winds, as well as the director of the nationally renowned Sound of the South Marching Band. His compositions and arrangements for band have been commissioned and performed by middle school, high school, collegiate, and professional bands worldwide. He currently serves as an exclusive composer-arranger for the Belwin division of Alfred Publications, a position he has enjoyed for over a decade. Currently, he has over 180 publications for concert band, orchestra, jazz ensemble, and marching band available worldwide. Professor Ford has served extensively in the United States and Canada as a composer, arranger, conductor, clinician, consultant, and adjudicator.
Additionally, he works extensively in the music industry where he has composed, recorded, and produced music, jingles, and 3D graphic designs for radio, television, and video productions.
Most recently, he was the music team supervisor for composer Stephen Melillo on the soundtrack recording for the animated motion picture, “Dwegons.” He has won numerous “Addies,” as well as recognition and awards from various agencies and international associations for his creative work in the media field. His active professional memberships include the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP), Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity, Music Educators National Conference, the National Band Association, the Troy Rotary Club, Phi Mu Alpha, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, Sigma Alpha Iota and Delta Chi, among others. Professor Ford has received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. He has co-authored published articles discussing the incorporation of electronic instruments into the modern wind ensemble and was recently a featured composer in the series Teaching Music through Performance in Band, Vol. 7. In March 2009, he was elected to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and is currently the only active Alabama director in this organization.
Ralph Ford retired from his post as Director of Bands at troy effective June 1, 2011. Mr. Ford became Director of Bands in February 2001.

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