Devlin DeCutler has been the music director at Yvonne A. Ewell Townview Magnet Center since 2006. Under his direction, the Townview Choir has received consistent sweepstakes and first division awards at UIL and other competitions and in 2022, the Townview music department received a Grammy Signature Award. His ensembles have performed at venues throughout the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex and beyond, including the AT&T Performing Arts Center, the Moody Performance Hall, the Texas Music Educators Association’s Convention, and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. This summer, they will perform at the Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee.

 

Townview Music is partnered with Music Will, a national educational organization that brings instruments and modern band curriculum to schools throughout the country. Through this partnership, several Townview Music students have received national recognition for their original compositions. Mr. DeCutler collaborates with the Metropolitan Opera in New York and serves as the program director for the Metropolitan Opera program in Dallas where he leads teacher training, provides and distributes educational resources, and coordinates live broadcasts for hundreds of students from dozens of schools across the district. Using the Dallas program as a model, Mr. DeCutler has helped other teachers and administrators further develop opera programs in Texas and around the country. To foster a partnership between the Met and Dallas Opera educational programs, he serves on the Dallas Opera Educational Advisory Committee and coordinates educational partnerships between the school district and the opera company. 

 

Mr. DeCutler has a passion for helping new teachers. In addition to serving as a mentor to many local teachers and the mentor coordinator for the Texas Music Educators Association in the Dallas area, he has spoken at numerous national conferences to help new and experienced teachers with guidance and direction.  Many Townview Music students have achieved great success beyond high school, including Grammy nominations, international performances, and significant artistic collaborations. Mr. DeCutler thanks God for his infinite grace and guidance, his wife Laura, also a music director, for her constant love and support, and his three sons for their enthusiasm and admiration.