After completing his Bachelors degree from Mansfield, RICHARD GOOD received a Master of Music in Wind Conducting from Louisiana State University and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Euphonium Performance from Arizona State University. His conducting teachers were Don Stanley, Frank Wickes and Richard Strange, and his low brass teachers included Don Stanley, Sam Pilafian, Dan Perantoni, and Larry Campbell.
Rick's honors include Auburn University's College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award (2002), and the coveted Sudler Trophy won by the Auburn Marching Band (2004).
Rick is a former member of the Allentown Band (the oldest civilian community band in the US), has performed professionally at Busch Gardens (Williamsburg VA), is a member of the National Band Association's Board of Directors, and is Executive Musical Director of Alabama Ambassadors of Music. Before joining the faculty at Auburn University Rick taught for seven years in the public schools of Pennsylvania and Virginia. He is also an active freelance musician and adjudicator throughout the US, Mexico, Caribbean, and Europe.
At Auburn he directs the marching band, concert band, trombone choir, tuba-euphonium ensemble, teaches trombone, euphonium, tuba, conducting, wind literature, and marching band techniques.