Ms. Claire Pittman currently serves as one of the Associate Directors at Lake Highlands High School in Richardson ISD. Her responsibilities include co-conducting the Wind Ensemble, leading the Concert Band, assisting with the Symphonic Band, teaching the marching band, and guiding the beginner curriculum for the cluster.
Before joining the LHHS staff, Ms. Pittman was the Associate Band Director at Killian Middle School in the Hebron HS feeder pattern, where she directed the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, assisted with the Honors Band, and taught all the beginning brass classes. Under her direction, the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band received consistent “Superior†ratings and success at UIL and local festivals. While at Killian, the Honors Band was selected as the 2018 CC State Honor Band and was an invited group for the 2019 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.
Prior to her appointment at Killian Middle School, Ms. Pittman spent two years as an Assistant Band Director at New Braunfels High School and Ninth Grade Center where she led the high school’s marching brass program as well as the ninth-grade bands.
From the fall of 2017-2022, Ms. Pittman served as a member of the brass staff of The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. Ms. Pittman spent four summers as a DCI performer, two of which were with the Blue Devils (2012 and 2013). In the summer of 2015, she spent six weeks touring Europe as a Performing Staff Member with the Blue Devils International Corps and performed in the Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland.
Ms. Pittman is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, and Tau Beta Sigma. She is also an active adjudicator and clinician in the DFW area. When she is not in the band hall, she spends her time in the gym, with friends, traveling, or volunteering and fostering dogs for a DFW rescue group, Tzu Zoo Rescue.
Before joining the LHHS staff, Ms. Pittman was the Associate Band Director at Killian Middle School in the Hebron HS feeder pattern, where she directed the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, assisted with the Honors Band, and taught all the beginning brass classes. Under her direction, the Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band received consistent “Superior†ratings and success at UIL and local festivals. While at Killian, the Honors Band was selected as the 2018 CC State Honor Band and was an invited group for the 2019 Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic.
Prior to her appointment at Killian Middle School, Ms. Pittman spent two years as an Assistant Band Director at New Braunfels High School and Ninth Grade Center where she led the high school’s marching brass program as well as the ninth-grade bands.
From the fall of 2017-2022, Ms. Pittman served as a member of the brass staff of The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. Ms. Pittman spent four summers as a DCI performer, two of which were with the Blue Devils (2012 and 2013). In the summer of 2015, she spent six weeks touring Europe as a Performing Staff Member with the Blue Devils International Corps and performed in the Netherlands, Italy, and Switzerland.
Ms. Pittman is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, and Tau Beta Sigma. She is also an active adjudicator and clinician in the DFW area. When she is not in the band hall, she spends her time in the gym, with friends, traveling, or volunteering and fostering dogs for a DFW rescue group, Tzu Zoo Rescue.