11- DANIEL BASSETT — Artistic director, South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble
The musical director of LGBT’s only Wind Ensemble, Dan Bassett is a Yankee and graduate of Ithaca College which was originally founded as a conservatory of music. It was a good choice for Dan whose first job out of college was as a music teacher—first at Boca Raton High and currently at St. Mark’s Episcopal School. A decade ago, he took over the South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble which began life as the South Florida Gay and Lesbian Band, on Thanks-giving weekend in 1986. Between then and now, much has happened besides several name changes. Dan took over the baton, and under his direction, the South Florida Pride Wind Ensemble and its sixty piece assemblage of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons, saxes, trumpets, french horns, trombones and percussion, have given pleasure to straights and gays alike.
