Stanley Michalski Collection

Individual Collection name: Stanley Michalski Collection

Repository name: Special Collections in Performing Arts,
Performing Arts Library, University of Maryland

Type: Correspondence, programs, scrapbooks, and other professional papers.

Extent: 27 linear feet

Description: The Stanley Michalski Collection contains correspondence, programs, scrapbooks, and other materials relating to Michalski's three-decade career as director of bands at Clarion State College.

Finding Aid: An unpublished finding aid is available in the repository.

Statement of provenance: Gift of Stanley Michalski, 1988. Michalski made several later additions to the collection.

SCPA shelf location: SCPA Collections Room, Aisle C.

Access: Materials from this collection must be used in the Performing Arts Library's Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Special Collections Room, 10 to 5, Monday through Friday. Please make an appointment with the curator.

Biography: The educator and conductor Stanley F. Michalski completed three degrees at Penn State University, earning his doctorate in music education in 1966. While completing his own education, Michalski began teaching at Central Dauphin School in 1956. In 1959, he became music supervisor for Juanita joint schools in Pennsylvania. The next year, Michalski became director of bands at Clarion State College. Under his direction, the Clarion concert bands toured extensively, traveling throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Europe. As a leading college band director, Michalski was active as a tuba soloist, clinician, adjudicator and guest conductor, working throughout the United States, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Germany, England, Denmark, Switzerland and Austria.

In 1992, after 31 years at Clarion, Dr. Stanley F. Michalski, Jr. retired to North Carolina where he serves as coordinator of instrumental music in the Charlotte diocese, a visiting professor at the University of North Carolina, and an adjudicator. Michalski was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1973, and was elected president in 1998.

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