Professor Michael Clayville currently serves as the director of bands at Dickinson College, directing the Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble. Michael is a highly active and passionate performer and educator. He is a member of Alarm Will Sound, a new music ensemble hailed by the New York Times as “the future of classical music” (and former artists-in-residence at Dickinson College), and Novus, a trombone quartet that has presented concerts and master classes at the Eastman School of Music, Penn State University, the University of Maryland, Lebanon Valley College and in Munich, Germany.

As a soloist, Michael has performed with the York Symphony and has presented recitals at Dickinson College, Rice University, and the Eastman School of Music.

As an educator Michael serves as adjunct professor of trombone at Messiah College in Grantham, PA, has presented classes across the country, and maintains a small private studio.

Michael has studied trombone with James Erdman, John Marcellus and David Waters and has received degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. He has studied ensemble playing with Scott Hartman, Allen Dean, William Purvis and Claude and Pamela Frank at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, as well as with Larry Rachleff at Rice University.