Logan Sorey

Logan Sorey is associate director of bands and assistant professor of conducting and music education at the University of Colorado Boulder. In these roles, he serves as artistic director and conductor of the CU Boulder Symphonic Band and the Golden Buffalo Marching Band, and teaches conducting and music education courses. During the summer term, he directs the CU Boulder Summer Music Academy.

Sorey joined the CU Boulder faculty in 2024. Prior to his current faculty appointment, he served a one-year term as assistant director of bands including as artistic director of the CU Boulder Concert Band and the Buff Band (pep band). Before joining the faculty, he served as a part-time graduate instructor in the band program, frequently conducting the CU Boulder Wind Symphony, Symphonic Band, Concert Band and Wind Symphony Chamber Players. He also served as instructor of record for the CU Boulder Campus Band and as a guest lecturer in undergraduate conducting courses.

Before entering higher education, Sorey taught public school music for seven years in Hillsborough County, Florida, at the middle and high school levels. He remains active as a guest conductor, arranger and drill designer, and has presented at the Florida Music Educators Association Conference, the Gebhardt Leadership Camp and the University of South Florida Summer Band Camp. His drill designs and musical arrangements are widely performed by high school and collegiate programs in Colorado and Florida.

Sorey holds a Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting and Literature from the University of Colorado Boulder. He also earned a Bachelor of Science in Music Education and a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting from the University of South Florida. His primary conducting teachers include Don McKinney, Matthew Dockendorf, Matthew McCutchen and William Wiedrich.