McNeil High School Band

Travis Ancelet, Director of Bands at McNeil High School, currently directs the Wind Ensemble, Marching Band and the Jazz Band. He holds a masters degree in wind conducting from the University of Texas at Austin. He studied conducting with Dr. Tom Lee, currently the director of bands at UCLA, and was a teaching assistant with the Longhorn Band. Mr. Ancelet received his under graduate degree in music education from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana. He also spent two summers touring with the Garfield Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps. In 1980, he marched with the corps and in 1982, he assisted with the horn line.

Prior to his appointment at McNeil High School, Mr. Ancelet taught in the Austin Independent School District for seventeen years. He last taught at LBJ High School where he was the assistant director and director of the jazz bands for twelve years. Some of the other responsibilities Mr. Ancelet took on during his tenure at LBJ were, TMEA Region 18 Jazz Division Chair, director of the Austin Youth Jazz Orchestra and organizer for the AISD All-City Jazz Band.

From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Ancelet was the director at Pearce Middle School, where he was selected as co-teacher of the year in 1991. He started his career as the assistant director at Anderson High School.

Mr. Ancelet was born and raised in south Louisiana, where a majority of his family still resides.