A music director, musical director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the director of music of a film, the director of music at a radio station, the person in charge of musical activities or the head of the music department in a school, the coordinator of the musical ensembles in a university, college, or institution, the head bandmaster of a military band, the head organist and choirmaster of a church, or an organist and master of the choristers.
Major Tim Cooper, Director of Music of The Blues and Royals mounted band in London.
A concert band, also called a wind band, wind ensemble, wind symphony, wind orchestra, symphonic band, the symphonic winds, or symphonic wind ensemble, is a performing ensemble consisting of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families of instruments, and occasionally including the harp, double bass, or bass guitar. On rare occasions, additional, non-traditional instruments may be added to such ensembles such as piano, synthesizer, or electric guitar.
A full concert band—Indiana Wind Symphony in concert, 2014
A military band—The United States Army Band
A high school concert band—BHS Band in performance, 2013
The early instrumentation of a large concert band (including violin soloist Nicoline Zedeler) is shown by the John Philip Sousa Band during their 1911 world tour.