Joseph Hebert

Professor of Music, Director of Bands and Coordinator of Wind and Percussion Activities

B.M.E., Loyola University New Orleans; M.M., Manhattan School of Music; Ph.D., University of Southern Mississippi

Dr. Joseph Hebert has performed with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein, the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stowkowski, and periodically performs with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the New Orleans Opera Association Orchestra. For 23 years, he conducted the New Orleans Saints Band (on the side line) for all home games. Hebert has been a guest conductor with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (formerly the New Orleans Symphony), and he is currently the Music Director and Conductor of the Crescent City Wind Symphony in New Orleans. In 1992, Hebert was selected by the Louisiana Unit of the International Association of Jazz Educators as the recipient of the yearÕs Lifetime Achievement Award.

Over the 37 years of his tenure, his jazz bands, concert bands, and wind ensembles have performed at festivals and conventions from coast to coast. These ensembles have also toured throughout Mexico and Europe, and continue to tour throughout the United States. Hebert is a frequent guest clinician, adjudicator, and conductor at festivals from Canada to Mexico and from the East Coast to the West Coast. He is a member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association (ABA) and the Board of Directors of the John Philip Sousa Foundation, among many other professional organizations. He has been with the College of Music faculty since 1965.

Curriculum Vitae
Office phone: 504-865-3748
E-mail: jghebert@loyno.edu