Fred Meyer has been a band director throughout the state of Texas for the last 17 years.  He is returning to West Columbia as the assistant director of bands at West Brazos Junior High School and Columbia High School, a AAA size school about 45 miles southwest of Houston, Texas.  He has taught at all levels, sizes of schools, and in virtually every type of situation.  He is very understanding of what a band needs in order to be successful.  Fred's bands have consistantly received 1st division ratings both on the football field and the concert stage.  He is currently a member of the Texas Music Educator's Association, the Association of Texas Small School Bands, the Texas Bandmaster's Association, and the Texas Music Adjudicator's Association.

Fred is a proud graduate of Plano East Senior High School in Plano, Texas in 1989 and the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, in 1993.  Throughout those years, he was a member of the Plano East "Marching Panthers" and the UNT "Green Brigade".  He has taken drill writing coursework from UNT and from Dan Ryder and his excellent drill writing seminar.  As well, Fred has adapted drill for Marching Show Concepts since 2006 and continues to do so today.  Fred wrote his first concept drill for Marching Show Concepts in 2011.

Fred currently resides in Rosharon, Texas, which is about 20 miles south of Houston.  When he has free time, he enjoys relaxing, playing his trumpet, watching football on TV, playing around on the computer, cooking, going out to eat, and spending time with his wife Anne, who he married in 1996, and his daughter, Emily, who was born in 2006.