Michael Rubino (Morgan Hill, CA) is an adjudicator for Bands of America and retired director of the Live Oak High School band that won the first “Marching Bands of America” National Championship in 1976 in Whitewater, Wisconsin. In the area of education, Rubino’s career has spanned from a start-up, award- winning high school music program to cultural music exchanges exposing over 800 students to diverse cultures including China, Soviet Union, Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Singapore and Malaysia; to elementary music education for the Morgan Hill Unified School District. While working as director of the Live Oak Emerald Regime Band, the band was eight-time California State Champion and received numerous awards for concert, symphonic and jazz band. He is an active judge for DCI (Drum Corps International) in addition to Bands of America and holds the position of Drum Corps International Pacific judges’ coordinator. As a composer and arranger, he has prepared more than 100 arrangements and original compositions. Mr. Rubino has designed and implemented an elementary music program that has proven to be highly successful in teaching 4th through 6th grade students the basic elements of music.
Currently, every elementary student in the Morgan Hill Unified School District is exposed to music through his efforts.