- Walkertown Middle School
- About the Director
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Quincy Lundy is in his 22nd year of teaching band and is in his 12th year as director of bands at Walkertown Middle and High Schools where he began the Walkertown High School Band program in 2011. Mr. Lundy was named Walkertown Middle School Teacher of the Year as well as Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools Band Director of the Year. Since his time with the Walkertown Bands, the bands have received a combined 11 superior and 2 excellent ratings at NCMEA Music Performance Adjudication. Walkertown High School Band also served as the clinic band for the conducting session of the Young Professionals Symposium at the NCEMA convention for 7 years. Mr. Lundy is a member of NCMEA and served on the executive board as Member-at-Large. Mr. Lundy was recently nominated and inducted into the prestigious American Schools Band Directors Association.
Prior to teaching band in public school, Mr. Lundy performed as a clarinetist in the United States Marine Corps Bands at Camp Lejeune and Parris Island. During his military service, Mr. Lundy also served as platoon sergeant and audio recording/sound reinforcement engineer for the concert, jazz and ceremonial bands’ national concert tours. In 2001, he was awarded the Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medal for composing an arrangement of God Bless the USA for the Paris Island Marine Band. The highlight of Mr. Lundy's military career was the powerfully moving premier performance of his original concert band work, A Symphonic Tribute, written in memoriam of his middle school band director, Mr. Russell French, who introduced Lundy to the world of instrumental music and deeply inspired him toward musical excellence. The piece was first performed in Cedar Falls, Iowa in 2000 by the Paris Island Marine Band and later performed and presented to Mr. French's wife and son, Susan and Brian French, in Winston-Salem by the Cherry Point Marine Band in 2003 as a part of the Old Salem Visitors Center opening and dedication.
Mr. Lundy attributes his passion for teaching music through band to a phenomenal musical upbringing in Forsyth County public schools under band directors Mr. Russell French and Mr. Bill Toney. During his middle and high school years, Mr. Lundy made the NC All-State Band every year from 8th through 12th grades and also 1st chair in the National Honor Band Concert Band his senior year. With those experiences, Mr. Lundy had the opportunity to perform and premier some of the most challenging and popular literature for concert band at the baton of nationally and internationally celebrated conductors and composers for band.
Following high school and after completing Marine Corps basic and combat training, Mr. Lundy attended and graduated from the Armed Forces School of Music in Norfolk, Virginia where he earned academic awards. He later earned a bachelor's degree in Music Education from Winston-Salem State University where he received several awards and graduated with honors. Mr. Lundy has performed numerous seasons with the Piedmont Wind Symphony and has served as co-conductor of the Wachovia Winds Youth Wind Ensembles since 2012. Mr. Lundy has also served as conductor-clinician of the Piedmont Honor Bands for many years and has conducted the Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools All-County Band as well as the Davie County Schools All-County. Mr. Lundy has also served as choral singing leader at his church congregation for many years.