Jerry Junkin, Music Director of Hong Kong Wind Philharmonia, also serves as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Dallas Wind Symphony, as well as Director of Bands, Head of the Division of Conducting and Ensembles, and the Frank C. Erwin Centennial Professor of Conducting at The University of Texas at Austin. Performances conducted by Professor Junkin have been heard by millions of listeners through radio broadcasts and on compact disc with the recent highly acclaimed releases on the Reference Recordings label. Ensembles under Mr. Junkin's leadership have performed for the Texas Music Educators Association (twice), national meetings of the College Band Director's National Association (twice), the American Bandmasters Association, and the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, as well as in distinguished concert halls throughout America.

Professor Junkin became conductor of The University of Texas Wind Ensemble in the fall of 1988, following an appointment as Director of Bands at the University of South Florida. From 1978 to 1982, he served as Assistant Director of Bands at UT, after which he held a similar position at The University of Michigan. In addition to his responsibilities as Professor of Music and Conductor and Music Director of the UT Wind Ensemble and Chamber Winds, he serves as Head of the Conducting Division and teaches courses in conducting and wind band literature. He is a recipient of the Texas Excellence in Teaching awards, presented annually by the Ex-Student's Association, and he has recently been named an Outstanding Young Texas Ex by that same organization. Professor Junkin's students hold notable conducting posts throughout American higher education.

Performances under the direction of Mr. Junkin have won the praise of such notable musicians as Gunther Schuller, Karel Husa, William Kraft, Jacob Druckman and Michael Colgrass, among others. Maintaining an active schedule as a guest conductor, clinician and lecturer, he has appeared in those capacities in some forty states, and throughout Europe, Canada and Australia. Lawson Taitte of The Dallas Morning News calls Mr. Junkin "...an invigorating leader who can mold a phrase and build a climax...a band version of Leonard Bernstein."