Minuteman Band Staff
Director
George N. Parks - e-mail
For over 25 years, George N. Parks has encouraged his students to reach for the stars in an effort to obtain their highest goals. His boundless energy and enthusiasm has helped create the marching band fondly known as The Power and Class of New England.
At the age of 24, Mr. Parks became the director of the Minuteman Marching Band. Building upon a strong program that had been headed by Dr. John Jenkins since the early 1960's, George Parks' enthusiastic and entertaining approach to the marching band resulted in instant success with the football fans throughout the Northeast.
Mr. Parks made his first appearance on the national scene as Drum Major of the award-winning Reading Buccaneers Senior Drum and Bugle Corps. He helped lead the Buccaneers to two DCA World Championships and received numerous individual honors, including eight DCA Championship Drum Major Awards and induction into the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame.
Each summer, over 3,000 students from almost every state in the nation attend his Band Leadership Training Seminar and Drum Major Academy. He is a recipient of the Massachusetts Conductor of the Year Award, the University of Massachusetts Distinguished Teachers Award, and the Chancellor's Medal for Distinguished Service.