Kirk Vogel

Kirk Vogel

Kirk Vogel received his Bachelor of Music Education from Capital University in 1980 and his Masters of Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1987. Mr. Vogel has spent his entire music education career involved with Colorado schools, including teaching assignments at Palisade Jr./Sr. High School, Bayfield Middle and High School and, for most of his career, Heath Junior High / Heath Middle School in Greeley. During his career, he was fortunate enough to be able to teach band, orchestra, choir, and jazz band. The Heath Junior High School Symphonic Band performed at the Colorado Music Educators Association (CMEA) Annual Convention and the Heath Jazz Bands performed twice at the CMEA Convention.In retirement Kirk continues to be active as a composer, guest conductor, adjudicator, and an educator/clinician with recent clinics being presented at the Colorado Bandmasters Association and Colorado Music Educators Association conventions. Kirk will be inducted into the Colorado Music Educators Hall of Fame at the CMEA convention (January 2020). Mr. Vogel has also had a successful career as a composer of band and orchestra music, being published by Kjos Music Company, Alfred Music, Grand Mesa Music, and Southern Music. His compositions Kokopelli, Three Waters Mountain, Escalante, and Perseids were the winning entries in the Colorado Music Educators Association Composers Competition in 1993, 1996, 1998, and 2000. His compositions have been performed at state music conventions, the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the National Flute Association Convention and the American School Band Directors Association National Convention. The Pittsburgh Symphony, Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra, community bands, and every age group from elementary through college have performed his music. He is a writer member and publisher member of the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP). He resides in Greeley, CO with his wife, Susan. They have two grown daughters. On his free days, he loves to spend time with his family hiking and photographing nature.

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