Jeff Ausdemore is Visiting Assistant Professor at the NMSU Music Department where he brings his extensive expertise in percussion education. He currently serves as President and Co-Founder of Stryvemind.com, an online music education platform that serves students and music educators around the world. In addition, he is the President of Ausdemore Music, a proprietary composition and arranging house for Mr. Ausdemore’s music catalog.

As a composer, Mr. Ausdemore is published through C. Alan and Tapspace publications, and has contributed original works for piano, instrumental guitar, contemporary multimedia, percussion and choir, percussion solo instruments, ensemble, and more. Ensembles have commissioned and premiered Mr. Ausdemore’s works on recordings, concerts, and at festivals, including two world premieres at the 2022 Percussive Arts Society’s International Convention. Mr. Ausdemore also serves on the faculty of Texas A&M University-Commerce, and is returning as percussion supervisor/composer and music consultant for the Blue Knights drum and bugle corps from Denver.

Mr. Ausdemore previously served as the Director of Music at Grapevine-Colleyville’s iUniversity Prep., overseeing all music curricula, and creating the iMusic club. He served eleven years as the Director of Percussion Studies at Colleyville Heritage High School. In this role, Mr. Ausdemore served as the percussion coordinator, head of jazz studies, and co-director/composer/arranger of the Colleyville Heritage marching band. He also served as the percussion arranger and caption head for the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps from 2006 through 2010.

Prior to his appointment to CHHS, Mr. Ausdemore taught at the University of Texas Arlington, as adjunct professor of percussion, serving as the percussion arranger/assistant director of the UTA Marching Band, he taught percussion pedagogy/techniques classes, assisted the UTA percussion ensemble, and maintained a private studio.

Mr. Ausdemore has performed with orchestras, wind ensembles, and percussion ensembles throughout the Midwest and southwest United States, including as principal percussionist with the Texas Wind Symphony, and principal percussionist/assistant principal timpanist with the Las Cruces Symphony.

As a clinician, Mr. Ausdemore has given performances, clinics and workshops throughout the U.S. In addition to teaching/performing, he has composed/arranged, instructed and consulted with Drum Corps International drum and bugle corps, and college and high school marching bands throughout the United States. He also has served as music director/composer for the Insignia Independent Percussion Ensemble. In 2023, he released his first book; Breathe, Grow, Share, Fostering Student Impact Through the Lens of a Music Teacher's Best Life.

Jeff Ausdemore is proud to endorse and serve as a clinician for Dynasty/Bergerault Musical Instruments, Zildjian cymbals, Remo drumheads, and Pro Mark sticks and mallets. The D’Addario/Pro Mark corporation released the Jeff Ausdemore “signature series” snare drumsticks in 2009. Mr. Ausdemore's professional affiliations include adjudication roles for Drum Corps International, Bands of America, and as a percussion committee member for the Percussive Arts Society, the Texas Bandmasters Association, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and more. He is currently the Vice President of Percussion and Winds on the Board of the North Texas Color Guard Association.  In 2017 he was inducted into the North Texas Color Guard Association’s Hall of Fame.

Mr. Ausdemore holds a Master of Music degree with distinction from New Mexico State University (2002), and a Bachelor of Music degree with high honors from Belmont University (1999).  For more, visit ausdemore.com