The Conductor

MEET THE CONDUCTORS

Robert Huntington is a Livermore native.  He is the Director of Instrumental Music at Mendenhall Middle School since 2022, Director and Vice President of the Pleasanton Community Concert Band, the Winds & Percussion Director for the Livermore-Amador Symphony Youth Orchestra.  Robert performs on his primary instrument, the tuba, with the Pleasanton Community Concert Band and other local and regional ensembles.  Huntington is also an award-winning composer, having won the 2020 Oklahoma Youth Winds Composition Competition with the first movement of his suite for band.  He stays active as a composer primarily by writing for his students.  He earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Composition in 2020 and his Master of Music in Music Education in 2022, both from University of the Pacific’s Conservatory of Music.

Josephine Clements – Associate Conductor, Pleasanton Community Concert Band

Josephine Clements is a freelance conductor and flutist based in the Bay Area.  Currently, she is Associate Conductor of the Pleasanton Community Concert Band and the Sycamore Strings Youth Chamber Orchestra.  She has worked with collegiate ensembles and youth orchestras since 2021.  As an educator, Clements is a guest conductor for the Livermore schools and maintains a private flute and piano lessons studio.  As a flutist, she performs with Panthéa Flutes, a San Francisco-based flute quintet, and a flute-viola-guitar trio.  Clements holds a Master of Music from San Francisco State University.

Bob Williams – Conductor Emeritus, Pleasanton Community Concert Band

Bob Williams first joined the Band in 1975 as a horn player and was the Band’s Conductor from 1989 through 2023. He is a graduate of West Chester University in Pennsylvania and did his graduate studies at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He is retired after a 22-year career of public school music teaching.