Past ODY Recipients

Past Texas Orchestra Director of the Year Award Winners

The TODA Orchestra Director of the Year Award (ODY) is presented annually at the TODA Convention to a teacher with a distinguished career in an orchestral setting. Nominees must exemplify outstanding lifetime leadership and achievement as an orchestra director in Texas.  Each year the TODA Board of Directors selects an orchestra director or teacher who has served his or her profession nobly and selflessly, leaving the mark of love, kindness, and good musicianship on the students he or she has trained.