Diane Muffitt - Conductor

Picture by Hal Curtin

     The person most responsible for the organization of the Sudbury Valley New Horizons Band is Diane Muffitt, band director at the Wayland Middle School.Diane arrived at WMS in 1980. She had been teaching instrumental music since 1974.

      At the middle school she directs two full concert bands, an honors wind ensemble and two jazz groups. In her spare time, she is active in the Massachusetts Music Educators Association and has helped organize and conducted in district band festivals. And, she was for many years conductor of the Freedom Trail Band.

      A French horn player and folk singer, Diane received her bachelor’s degree in music education from Michigan State University and master’s in educational media and technology from Boston University. She also knows what it’s like to begin music study in adulthood, having began piano lessons just three years ago.

     Diane was introduced to the New Horizons concept when her brother, music director for the Lansing Symphony in Michigan, called having just filled in for conductor of the Lansing New Horizons Band and raved about the experience