Dr. Collinsworth maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and rehearsal clinician throughout the western states. He is conductor and artistic director for the Saint Helena Community Band, an ensemble established and sponsored by director Francis Ford Coppola. He is the founder and director of the Sonoma Summer Wind Band Conducting Symposium, an annual weeklong conducting seminar for music educators. Dr. Collinsworth is the artistic director and coordinator of the Sonoma Invitational Wind Band and Orchestra Festival, a signature three-day event that brings over 2,500 high school and community college students to campus each year. He received the Outstanding Music Educator from California Music Educators Association (CMEA) Bay Section in 2022 and was previously recognized as the John Swain Outstanding University Music Educator Award for outstanding contributions to music education at the collegiate level by the CMEA in 2014. He is a current nominee for membership in the American Bandmasters Association.

Dr. Collinsworth earned his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting at Arizona State University, where he studied with Gary W. Hill. He holds a Master of Music degree in saxophone performance and Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Nevada at Reno.

Dr. Feagin has appeared as a guest conductor with numerous all-state, regional honor bands, and professional bands and orchestras throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, and Southeast Asia. Recent engagements include serving as guest conductor with the Northwest Sinfonietta Orchestra in Washington, and the 2019 American Spring Festival in the Czech Republic. As a clinician and presenter, he has been invited to speak on conducting, diversity and inclusion in music education, and leadership at numerous music educators’ conferences across the United States and around the globe. In 2022, he was selected to present at the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles convention in Prague, Czech Republic.

Dr. Feagin holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in wind conducting from the University of Arizona Fred Fox School of Music where he was a student of the late Gregg I. Hanson. He holds professional memberships in the National Association for Music Education, College Band Directors National Association, World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, Washington Music Educators Association, Patron of Mu Phi Epsilon, and honorary memberships in both Tau Beta Sigma and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Dr. Feagin currently serves on the Statement of Purpose and Diversity Committees of the College Band Directors National Association and serves on the advisory board of Emergence: Research & Performance Topics in Black Music, the scholarly publication of the National Associations of Negro Musicians, Inc.