Director of Music

Earl Hobson has conducted the Royal City Concert Band since 1998. A former music teacher, administrator, and recipient of the Professional Music Educator Award from the BC Music Educators Association, he has presented instructional clinics for children and adults and adjudicated music festivals throughout western Canada. Mr. Hobson is perhaps well known as the longtime director of music with the Greater Vancouver Operatic Society, for which he has conducted such hits as The Mikado, The Music Man, My Fair Lady, and Brigadoon. He has also conducted productions for Theatre Under the Stars and other Lower Mainland musical-theatre organizations. Earl is the President of the B.C Band Association.