Justin Daly is an active music educator, clinician, and adjudicator from Connecticut. He currently serves as the Director of Bands at East Lyme High School, where he directs the marching, concert, and jazz bands. In addition to teaching, he is a highly sought-after trumpet performer throughout Connecticut. Additionally, he serves as a music proficiency judge for US Bands in New England and frequently guest conducts for local community bands. He has presented professional development workshops, clinics, and lectures across New England and online.
Justin has earned degrees in Music Education (BS), Music (BA), and Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Music Education (MA) from the University of Connecticut. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Music Education at Boston University. During his undergraduate studies, he served as a drum major of the UConn Marching Band and participated in the wind ensemble, symphony orchestra, and various other chamber groups. As a graduate student, he contributed to the UConn band program as a graduate assistant, assisted the marching band, served as the graduate director of the hockey and basketball pep bands, and acted as a conducting assistant with the concert band.
Justin is highly passionate about the marching arts and drum corps. His drum corps experience includes performing as a lead trumpet player and flugelhorn soloist with the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps in 2019 and with the 50th Anniversary Bluecoats Alumni Corps in 2022. He previously taught as a brass instructor or consultant with the 7th Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps and the Hawthorne Caballeros Drum and Bugle Corps and has been a member of the brass staff with the Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps of Sacramento, CA, since 2022.
He has studied trumpet with Dr. Louis Hanzlik, Derek Gipson, Ricardo Brown, Andrew Sorg, Kenneth Bell, and Dave Negri. He has studied instrumental conducting with Harvey Felder and Dr. Vu Nguyen and has attended wind band conducting symposia and workshops nationwide.
Justin received the 2023 Connecticut Music Educators Association Outstanding Emerging Music Educator Award and the 2024 Connecticut chapter of the American School Band Directors Association Outstanding Potential Award and has published articles in the National Association for Music Education Teaching Music Magazine, as well as various other journals.
Justin has earned degrees in Music Education (BS), Music (BA), and Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Music Education (MA) from the University of Connecticut. He is currently pursuing his Doctorate in Music Education at Boston University. During his undergraduate studies, he served as a drum major of the UConn Marching Band and participated in the wind ensemble, symphony orchestra, and various other chamber groups. As a graduate student, he contributed to the UConn band program as a graduate assistant, assisted the marching band, served as the graduate director of the hockey and basketball pep bands, and acted as a conducting assistant with the concert band.
Justin is highly passionate about the marching arts and drum corps. His drum corps experience includes performing as a lead trumpet player and flugelhorn soloist with the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps in 2019 and with the 50th Anniversary Bluecoats Alumni Corps in 2022. He previously taught as a brass instructor or consultant with the 7th Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps and the Hawthorne Caballeros Drum and Bugle Corps and has been a member of the brass staff with the Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps of Sacramento, CA, since 2022.
He has studied trumpet with Dr. Louis Hanzlik, Derek Gipson, Ricardo Brown, Andrew Sorg, Kenneth Bell, and Dave Negri. He has studied instrumental conducting with Harvey Felder and Dr. Vu Nguyen and has attended wind band conducting symposia and workshops nationwide.
Justin received the 2023 Connecticut Music Educators Association Outstanding Emerging Music Educator Award and the 2024 Connecticut chapter of the American School Band Directors Association Outstanding Potential Award and has published articles in the National Association for Music Education Teaching Music Magazine, as well as various other journals.