Clinicians:  VICTOR LOPEZ

VICTOR LOPEZ has been an educator with the Miami-Dade County Public Schools System for the past 32 years. He is a highly acclaimed composer, arranger, and adjudicator, and has achieved success in music performance, education, and administration. He holds music degrees from the University of Florida and Florida International University. For sixteen years he served as director of bands at Mays Junior High School and Miami Senior High School, and for the past sixteen years, he has worked as an administrator in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools. He was the principal at G. W. Carver Middle School, which under his leadership received the National Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award and Miami Senior High School, his alma mater. Mr. Lopez now serves as Executive Director of Life Skills and Special Programs. 

Among many of his accomplishments, Mr. Lopez was named the “1978 Miami-Dade County Public Schools Teacher of the Year” and the “1979 State of Florida Teacher of the Year.” In addition to being the former lead trumpet player and arranger for the Miami Sound Machine, he has recorded and performed with various artists and has appeared in numerous music videos. Besides serving his community as a councilman in the Doral Community Council in Miami, Florida, he has also participated in the Interstate New Teacher Assessment and Support Consortium (INTACS) committee, which drafted model arts education licensing standards and supporting materials for national certification. Additionally, he has been a board member of the Florida Schools Music Association, a non-profit organization that oversees all of the music activities in the State of Florida. Mr. Lopez is in constant demand across the United States and Canada as a clinician/conductor, adjudicator, and commission writer. 

His compositions/arrangements have been published by Hal Leonard Publishing Company, Arrangers’ Publishing Company, Educational Programs Publications, Warner Bros. Publications and he currently serves as an exclusive composer, arranger and clinician for Alfred Publishing Company with over 450 publications to his credit. Presently, Mr. Lopez is writing a dissertation as required for the Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) degree in Educational Administration and Supervision at Florida International University.