Derek Limback is the Director of Bands at St. James Public Schools. He received his BS in Education from Missouri State in 1998 and his Masters in Music Composition in 2003. He taught in Warsaw Missouri from 1999-2001 and was hired in St. James in 2003. Mr. Limback was the Director of Jazz Studies at Missouri University of Science and Technology from 2004-2009. He is an active composer and clinician and his music has been performed across the country.