Gary P. Gilroy is a professor of music at California State University, Fresno. In August of 2006 he became Director of Bands after serving 13 years as Associate Director of Bands and Director of the Marching Band & Colorguard. Prior to this appointment he served for a decade as Director of Bands at Fred C. Beyer High School in Modesto, California where his band was awarded several national honors as well as the International Sudler Shield Award from the John Philip Sousa Foundation. Gilroy also served as faculty at CSU, Stanislaus or and graduate assistant at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon where he completed his doctorate in 1995.

Gilroy has served on the board of California Band Directors Association for twelve years and he is a Past President of that organization. He is also a Past President of the Fresno Madera Counties Music Educators Association and presently serves on the board of the National Band Association as a Member At Large.

Dr. Gilroy is in demand as a guest conductor of many honor bands in California and other western states. As an adjudicator and guest conductor he has served in 39 states and throughout Canada. Dr. Gilroy served as conductor for all state groups in Colorado and Oregon as well as serving as the conductor for the California Band Directors Association All-State High School Symphonic Band.

An ASCAP Award-winning composer, Gilroy's music is published for concert band, marching band, and percussion ensembles through the Arrangers Publishing Company, BRS Music, Inc., Daehn Publications, Kagarice Brass Editions, Matrix Publications, TRN Publications, Warner Brothers, Wingert-Jones, Inc., and CPP/Belwin Mills. His compositions have been featured at the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, the Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington, DC, the International Trombone Festival in New Orleans, and on several occasions at the International Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago.

Website: www.GPGMusic.com