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Bill Bitter

Bill Bitter is in his forty-first year with Gilbert Public Schools, Gilbert, AZ. During that time he has taught orchestra and band at all levels, elementary through high school. He is presently the Director of Orchestras at Highland High School. Prior to teaching at Highland High School, Mr. Bitter spent twelve years as Director of Orchestras and Assistant Band Director at Gilbert High School. Mr. Bitter has been at Highland High School since it opened in 1993 and the Highland Orchestras currently consist of five performing ensembles, with an enrollment of over 350 students.

An Arizona native, Mr. Bitter began his music education in the public schools of Scottsdale, AZ. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Arizona State University in 1981, and completed his Master of Music from ASU in 1990. He has performed as a member of the ASU Symphony, the Flagstaff Summer Festival Orchestra, and as first violinist of “Simply Strings”, a professional string quintet. Mr. Bitter also conducted and performed in various musical theater productions for the Gilbert Fine Arts Association from 1982 – 1993.

Mr. Bitter has been active in the Arizona Band and Orchestra Director’s Association, serving as Vice President of High School Orchestra Activities, State Concert Festival Chairman, Fall Orchestra Festival Chairman, and Regional Orchestra Chairman. For five years, he has been a conductor with the Metropolitan Youth Symphony in Mesa, AZ. Mr. Bitter spent 9 years as a member of the staff of the National High School Honors Orchestra, sponsored by ASTA with NSOA, serving as organizing chairman in 2005.

Mr. Bitter has served as an adjudicator and clinician for festivals throughout the United States. His orchestras have performed at the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, and in New York’s world-renowned Carnegie Hall. In 2014, the Arizona Music Educators Association named Mr. Bitter the Arizona Music Educator of the Year, and in 2015, he received the Elizabeth A. H. Green School Educator Award from the American String Teachers Association.