Patricia Cornett is the Director of Bands at Temple University where she conducts the Wind Symphony, teaches undergraduate and graduate conducting, and courses in wind literature.  Prior to joining the faculty at Temple, she was the Director of Bands at Cal State University, Fullerton where she conducted the Wind Symphony, Symphonic Winds, and taught courses in conducting and music education.  She was also a Visiting Assistant Professor at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music.

Dr. Cornett earned her D.M.A. from the University of Michigan, M.M. from Northwestern University, and dual B.M. degree in music education and saxophone performance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dr. Cornett taught at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vermont from 2007-2010 where she conducted three concert bands, jazz band, and taught courses in guitar and history of rock.  She was also the Director of Instrumental Music at Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Falls, Connecticut, from 2003–2005.  She is published in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series, the CBDNA Journal, the WASBE Journal, and The Instrumentalist.  Her editions of Divertimenti Nos. 2, 3, and 4 by eighteenth-century composer Vicente Martín y Soler are published by Boosey & Hawkes in the Windependence Series.  She has presented sessions at The Midwest Clinic, national and regional CBDNA conferences, and numerous state conferences.  Guest conducting engagements have included “The President’s Own” United States Marine Band, as well as district, region and state-level ensembles in 20 states.  She is a member of the College Band Directors National Association, the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association and the National Association for Music Education.