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Dr. Malcolm James Coleman, Jr. is the retired Band Director/Flute Teacher of Pharr-San Juan-Alamo (PSJA) High School, the Adjunct Lecturer in flute at the University of Texas-Pan American, and was the flute teacher at South Texas Community College. His high school students earned more than 100 positions in honor Bands and Orchestras (including 20 first chairs) and more than 700 first division medals in Solo and Ensemble contests (100 in a single UIL solo and ensemble contest). He has had many students become members of professional symphony orchestras, military bands and music teachers. He has adjudicated more than 80 auditions and contests. He served on the subcommittee that revised the flute listings in the Texas UIL Prescribed Music List. He scored the Texas Master Teacher Examination in Music. He was in charge of the Responsibility Education Program at PSJA. This program used Choice Theory of Dr. William Glasser and concepts of Doug Naylor to help students behave in more responsible manor.
Dr. Coleman has earned the B. Music/Music Education, the M. M. E., and the Ph. D. degree in Music Education (Flute Pedagogy) all from the University of North Texas. He has taken additional graduate level work in Counseling, Music Theory, and Flute Performance. He has earned a Texas Teaching Certificate in All Level Music and a Secondary School Counselor’s Certificate and holds a L.P.C. (Licensed Professional Counselor) License, and has been a L.P.C. Supervisor. Dr. Coleman studied flute with Dr. George Morey (at North Texas), David Varnholt (Dallas Symphony Orchestra flute/piccolo player), Myrna Brown, Helen Ann Shanley, and many other outstanding flute teachers. He has been in master classes with Julius Baker, John Barcellona, Ervin Monroe and Jean-Pierre Rampal. His teaching experience includes band, choir, a sixth grade classroom, and a journalism class in Bremond and Hubbard, Texas.
Before coming to the Rio Grande Valley he was a school counselor for five years in Pecos, Texas. Dr. Coleman served in the U. S. Army as a flute, piccolo and alto flute player stationed with the NORAD (North American Air Defense Command) Band, and was honored by being named the best flute player in the U. S. Army. He served on temporary duty with the U. S. Air Force Academy Band. Dr. Coleman has performed with the Brownsville Community Band, the Rio Grande Valley Wind Symphony, and the Rio Grande Valley Symphony Orchestra. He has been a soloist with many groups, including the McAllen Symphonic Band, in which he has played flute and piccolo for 20 years and was it’s president in 2002. Dr. Coleman has been a member of several professional groups including TBA, TMEA, MENC, NEA, TSTA (in which he was a local chapter vice-president and a secretary), and the National Flute Association.
Dr. Coleman has many hobbies, areas of special study and other interests including: flute history, flute collecting, flute multi-phonics, music theory, music history, the music of John Philip Sousa, the music of Scott Joplin, Bible study, computer science, psychology, psycho-cybernetics, body language, stress reduction, job satisfaction, astronomy, quantum theory, dinosaurs, audiology, the Alamo, ancient Egypt, genealogy, pre-1950 movies, the works of Tolkien and science fiction. His most resent work in the field of psychology has been analyzing the theories of Dr. William Glasser and Dr. Albert Ellis. Dr. Coleman’s honors include listings in 21 different Who's Who, six honorary doctor’s degrees and many other honors.
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