New U of Illinois Band Director Plans To Stay Awhile

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — The new band director at the University of Illinois says he hopes to provide stability that has been lacking in recent years.

Stephen Peterson is taking over for interim director Linda Moorhouse. She had been in charge since Robert Rumbelow quit in 2013 before pleading guilty to stealing musical instruments.

Peterson told The News-Gazette in Champaign that the program at the Urbana-Champaign campus has faced problems, but said “I’m going to be there for a while.”

Peterson was director of bands at Ithaca College for 17 years. He has also been a high school band director and worked at Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas.

He is a graduate of Arizona State and Northwestern universities.

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