Silas Huff Email and Phone Number

DR. SILAS NATHANIEL HUFF is the Director of Orchestras at Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, IL) Music Director of the Colorado Pops Orchestra, Commander & Conductor of the 562nd Air Force Band (CA), and Co-Director of the International Conducting Institute, an organization dedicated to training the world’s next generation of conductors. He has conducted orchestras, bands, and new music ensembles across America and Europe. Recent guest conducting engagements include the Mankato (MN), Saint Joseph (MO), Williamsburg (VA), Catskill (NY), and Venice (FL) Symphony Orchestras. Maestro Huff’s past positions include Director of Orchestras at Washburn University (KS), Music Director of the Astoria Symphony Orchestra (NYC), U.S. Army Orchestra (DC), 44th Army Band (Albuquerque, NM), Round Rock Symphony Orchestra (TX), Topeka Youth Symphony (KS), and the critically-acclaimed Lost Dog New Music Ensemble (NYC); and Assistant Conductor of the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra (CO) and Williamsburg Symphony Orchestra (VA). An avid dance conductor, Maestro Huff has conducted performances with many ballet companies—including the Martha Graham Ensemble. As a staunch advocate of new music, he has commissioned, premiered, and recorded over one hundred works by dozens of composers.In 2011, Maestro Huff won a coveted job as a U.S. Army Music Officer. As such, he conducted concerts at the White House, U.S. Capitol, Arlington National Cemetery, Pentagon, and other important monuments and landmarks in Washington, D.C., on tour for audiences numbering in the thousands, and in recordings and broadcasts seen by millions of viewers. Among other notable assignments, Major Huff served as Director of The U.S. Army Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), U.S. Army Central Music Liaison Officer in the Middle East (providing musical support to American, NATO, Coalition, and State Department personnel, and local communities in five nations), and Company Commander of the U.S. Army School of Music in Virginia Beach. More recently, Major Huff was the Commander of the 44th Army Band (“New Mexico’s Own” National Guard Band) in Albuquerque, NM, before transferring to the U.S. Air Force to assume command of the 562nd Air Force Band (Air Guard Band of the West Coast).Maestro Huff holds degrees from Texas State University, University of California Los Angeles, and University of Colorado Boulder, and also studied at the Trossingen Hochschule für Musik (Germany), L’Institut Musical Provence-Aubagne (France), and California State University-Long Beach.