BIO:

Dr. Domenic Joseph Christian Pisano is currently an Adjunct Professor and Director of the Drexel University Pep Band, as well as the Coordinator of Visual and Performing Arts & Physical Education for the Brandywine School District, serving over 80 teachers in 16 schools with over 8,000 Visual and Performing Arts students. Dr. Pisano also serves as a clinician, guest speaker, adjudicator, guest conductor, and lecturer and has worked on Visual and performing educational policy with various state agencies.

Dr. Pisano has been a music educator for over 25 years, starting his career as an orchestral teacher at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts. He spent five years as a 4-12 instrumental teacher at the Upper Perkiomen School District before becoming the Music Department Chair and instrumental music teacher at Concord High School in Wilmington, Delaware, where he taught Wind Ensemble, Marching Band, Symphonic Band, Music Theory, Jazz, and Music & Film Production. He has also directed ten honor bands and string orchestras throughout Europe with American Music Abroad.

Dr. Pisano has written extensively about music education, including “Music Educators: Investigating the Relationship Between Undergraduate Music Education, State Certification, and Professional Responsibilities”, and he was a contributing author for a chapter in the book “Creative Music Making at Your Fingertips: A Mobile Technology Guide for Music Educators”. He has also edited several pieces of band literature with his mentor, Dr. Jack Stamp.