Mr. Story
Head Band Director
Mr. Alejandro Story is entering his 21st year as a music educator and band director. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, where he studied saxophone under Professor Rick Duhaime, and later completed his Master’s in Teaching.
Throughout his career, Mr. Story has served in a variety of leadership roles, including Head Band Director in Wellington ISD, Assistant Band Director in Crowley ISD, and Head Band Director at Daggett Middle School and Young Men’s Leadership Academy in Fort Worth ISD. Most recently, he served as Head Band Director at Rosemont Middle School, where he focused on building a culture of musical excellence, student leadership, and academic success.
Mr. Story is passionate about helping students develop confidence, discipline, teamwork, and a lifelong appreciation for music. In addition to his work in music education, he has been actively involved in creating leadership and college-access opportunities for young people throughout the Fort Worth community.
Mr. Story and his wife, Elizabeth, have been married since 2008 and are the proud parents of two daughters, Isabella and Juliana. He is excited to join the HF Stevens family and looks forward to helping students grow as musicians, leaders, and individuals.
Mr. Medley
Assistant Band Director
Mr. Michael Medley graduated from JF Dulles HS in Stafford, TX, while performing with the marching band, Symphonic Band and Jazz Ensemble under the direction of Bill Duggan. He began his instrumental music experience – and the awareness of his affinity for wind instruments in general – in the sixth grade, beginning on trombone. During the latter part of that year, he began experimenting with trumpet, eventually leading him to be able to play the trumpet, trombone, euphonium, tuba and saxophone by the end of the eighth grade. Setting a personal challenge in high school, he was able to play full-range major and minor scales and all the band music for flute, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, euphonium and tuba, while also taking up the electric bass midway through his sophomore year. By the end of his sophomore year, he was playing in “gigging” groups. Notably, those groups were a swing band (playing lead trombone and filled with high school musicians) and a professional Tejano band (playing trombone, tenor sax and trumpet). After two years of advancing to the level of alternate bass trombonist to the All-State Band, in his senior year he advanced to the Area level on euphonium and was the only tenor and bass trombonist to tape for the State auditions from his region, making the All-State Symphony Orchestra in 1983. He was chosen as a “Who’s Who in American High Schools” his senior year and the Outstanding Student for Band at the high school.
He received his formal training in music education and performance (with a specialization in tenor/bass trombone) at Texas Tech University, under the brass teaching of Mr. Robert Diehl (Professor of Trombone), Mr. Anthony Britten (Professor of Horn), and Mr. Richard Tolley (Professor of Trumpet). He obtained his woodwind studies with Dr. Michael Stoune (Professor of Flute), Mr. Keith McCarty (Professor of Clarinet), Mr. Don Turner (Professor of Saxophone) and Mr. Richard Meek (Professor of Bassoon). He studied conducting with Mr. James Sudduth (Director of Bands), and jazz studies with Mr. Alan Shinn (Director of Percussion and Jazz). While at TTU, he was the only brass student to give two senior recitals – six weeks apart! – and the only bass trombonist to ever win the University Concerto Competition, performing the Concerto for Bass Trombone and Orchestra by Thom Ritter George. He was also chosen by the Director of Bands, Mr. James Sudduth, to provide a wind-band transcription of the orchestral accompaniment to the Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto for the Symphonic Band, to be performed during the Russian Music Celebration of that semester. In 1987, he was chosen via national audition as one of two bass trombonists to participate in the summer tour of the American Waterways Wind Orchestra, directed by Robert Austin Boudreau. From August 1984 until July 1986, he served as a member of the Lubbock Symphony Orchestra as the bass trombonist; from August 1986 until July 1994, he served as the principal trombonist. During that time, he also served as a sub musician on trombone and euphonium in the Midland Symphony, the Amarillo Symphony and the Roswell (NM) Symphony Orchestras. His graduate work in Music Education took place at Eastern New Mexico University in Roswell, NM under Dr. David Wilborn. That year, he served as an assistant band director for Valencia ES 4th and 5th grade bands, under the formal direction of Mr. Rick Ball.
From January 1996 to May 2008, he served as the 6-12 grade band director at Ft. Bend Baptist Academy in Sugar Land, TX, where his ensembles earned Sweepstakes honors and placed in the top 4 in State rankings during five of his last six years there. He has also been an active performer, studio musician and instructor in the Houston area on piccolo, flute, alto flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, soprano sax, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, trumpet, flugelhorn, tenor trombone, bass trombone, electric bass, and acoustic bass. He has enjoyed guiding students
to earning positions in the Texas All-State groups on flute, clarinet, bass/contrabass clarinet, saxophone, and tenor/bass trombone.
Beginning in his high school years, Mr. Medley has had extensive performing experiences in such diverse musical settings as church praise team, travelling worship ensemble, Tejano band, flute choir, recorder consort, bassoon choir, mixed woodwind ensemble, saxophone ensemble, brass choir, trombone ensemble, tuba ensemble, wind ensemble, British brass band, community band, community orchestra, semi-professional orchestra, jazz/dance band, R&B horn band, fusion jazz quintet, and musical theatre pit orchestra. From June 2002 to July 2008, Mr. Medley performed with the Masquerade Theatre (resident company for Zilkha Hall at the Hobby Center in downtown Houston) where he served as electric/acoustic bassist, tubist and associate conductor. Through the involvement with the various jazz groups and orchestras, Mr. Medley has had the opportunity to perform with such talents as Paul English, Denis DiBlasio, Tony Campise, Eric Dolphy, Shelly Berg, Dennis Dotson, Doc Severinson, Ashley Alexander, Louis Bellson, Buddy Rich, Liza Minelli, Rita Moreno, Michael Martin Murphy and the touring Glenn Miller Orchestra.
Mr. Medley is currently a member of Oak Grove Baptist Church in Burleson, Texas, and participates in the praise and worship team there (currently performing on electric bass, C flute, alto flute, bass flute, soprano saxophone, and occasionally leads worship from the guitar and bass). He has served a performing member of the German Band of North Texas, performing on oboe, English horn and saxophone. From October 2008 to December 2012, he served as a private tutor in Forney ISD, teaching flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, bassoon, trombone, French horn and tuba. From August 2010 to October 2012, he served as an instrumental specialist at Crowley HS, HF Stevens MS and the Crowley 9th Grade Campus, assisting with masterclasses, sectionals, and music tutoring on clarinet, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, euphonium, and tuba. In June of 2010, he joined the faculty of Mountain Valley Studios in Joshua, teaching flute, clarinet, oboe, saxophone, trombone, tuba and electric bass, and taught there until May 2013. In recent years, Mr. Medley has been involved in the pit orchestras of several HS musicals, including “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” (alto sax and electric bass), “The Drowsy Chaperone” (Reed I), “Seussical” (reed 2), “Little Shop of Horrors” (electric bass). He enjoyed performing all 3 of the “Smoke on the Mountain” musicals (acoustic bass), “Forever Plaid” (electric bass), “Hadestown” (cello) and “Clue the Musical” (cello) at the Plaza Theatre in Cleburne and “Oliver!” (electric bass) with the Greater Carnegie Players of Cleburne. He was the house bassist for the Crowley Honor Choir shows from April 2012 to May 2023..
In January 2013, Mr. Medley became the Assistant Band Director at H. F. Stevens MS where he proudly served as Assistant Band Director until May 2023, when he assumed the Head Band Director position until May 2026. In 2022, Mr. Medley began to design and build custom bass guitars under the brand Agape Custom Basses.
michael.medley@crowley.k12.tx.us
817-297-5840 ext. 1090