Director Emeritus
With ASB 1986-2021
Richard Floyd was a formative figure in the band's growth and development. Under his direction ASB grew in size and quality, hosted a busy season of seven annual performances, and appeared at numerous national music conferences and conventions. It won the John Philip Sousa Foundation’s Sudler Scroll for outstanding achievement as a community band in 1994, and was named the Official Band of the City of Austin in 1989.
Floyd has been active as a conductor, music educator and administrator since 1962. He has enjoyed a distinguished and highly successful career at virtually every level of wind band performance from beginning band programs through high school and university wind ensembles as well as adult community bands.
Richard Floyd is a Yamaha Master Educator. He is a recognized authority on conducting, the art of wind band rehearsing, concert band repertoire and music advocacy. As such, he has toured extensively throughout the United States, Canada, Australia and Europe, with engagements in 45 American states and 9 other countries. In 2002 he was the recipient of the prestigious A.A. Harding Award, recognizing significant and lasting contributions to the school band movement. He was named Texas Bandmaster of the Year in 2006, and in 2009 was presented the Texas Music Educators Association Distinguished Service Award. In March 2011 he was inducted into the Music for All Hall of Fame and awarded the prestigious Midwest International Clinic Medal of Honor for distinguished and unique contributions to educational bands and orchestras. Most recently, Floyd was elected to the National Band Association Academy of Wind and Percussion Arts and presented the Kappa Kappa Psi Fraternity Distinguished Service to Music Award.