Jack Yonce

Jack Yonce is a freelance music educator, conductor, adjudicator and musician, having retired in May 2018 after twenty one years as Director of Bands at Cheyenne Mountain High School and twenty-eight years in public school music education. Prior to his tenure at Cheyenne Mountain, he served for seven years as Instrumental Music Director at Gateway High School in Aurora. Groups under Mr. Yonce’s direction have been selected to perform at the Colorado Music Educators Association Annual Convention thirteen times, to the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival three times, and have performed three times in Carnegie Hall and in the Kennedy Center and Dallas Meyerson Center.

Mr. Yonce serves the Colorado Bandmasters Association as Chairman of Concert Band Activities where he coordinates all aspects of fourteen full-day concert band festivals. He is a frequent judge and guest clinician in Colorado and beyond.

Mr. Yonce has been named a Cheyenne Mountain High School Teacher of the Year twice, a Gateway High School “Unique Teacher of the Year”, a University of Colorado-Boulder College of Music Outstanding Alumnus, and is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association. He received a National Band Association “Citation of Excellence” in 2001 and has twice appeared in School Band and Orchestra Magazine as the Colorado nominee of the “50 Directors Who Make a Difference”. Mr. Yonce was the Phi Beta Mu "Most Outstanding Band Director" in 2017, was inducted into the Colorado Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 2018 and the Colorado Music Educators Association Hall of Fame in 2020.