About

Kolby Palmore is a percussion arranger, visual designer, and educator from Texarkana, Texas. Kolby graduated with a Bachelors of Music Education from the University of Arkansas in 2015, and a Masters of Music (Percussion Performance) in May of 2019. He is currently the assistant junior high band director at Lakeside Junior High School in Springdale, Arkansas where his curricular responsibilities include teaching percussion at Springdale High School, conducting the Lakeside JH concert band and assisting with the symphonic band, as well as teaching beginning percussion and saxophone. He is also a co-battery coordinator for Lotus Indoor Percussion for the 2025 season.

Previously, he was the head junior high band director at North Heights Junior High in Texarkana, Texas where he taught beginning classes in clarinet, trombone, baritone, and tuba, conducted the JH Honor Band, as well as assisted with other concert and jazz bands. Before this, he was an assistant band director in Berryville Public Schools in Berryville, Arkansas. His curricular responsibilities there included teaching 6th through 12th grade percussion, 6th grade beginning flutes, assisting with Junior High Choir, directing the 7th and 8th grade bands, and assisting with all high school concert and marching activities. Kolby also taught in many schools in the northwest Arkansas area such as Bentonville, Siloam Springs, and Springdale. He was an instructor of the 2012 - 2014 Joplin Indoor Percussion Ensemble in Joplin, Missouri. He taught drum corps for six summers (2012-2017) at the Colt Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps, five of which as Battery Coordinator. He has also been a technician for Resistance Indoor Percussion from Tulsa Oklahoma. In his time as a graduate student, he taught undergraduate percussion lessons, percussion methods courses, as well as arranged and instructed both the front ensemble and drum line for the Razorback Marching Band. His other collegiate level experience includes adjunct percussion lessons for the University of Arkansas, Monticello. He has written drill that appeared in both the Arkansas State Marching Competition and MCCGA Percussion Scholastic A Finals. 

Kolby’s drum corps performance experience includes marching snare drum for the 2009 Memphis Sound Drum & Bugle Corps and the 2011 Colts Drum & Bugle Corps. He performed in the 2012 second place PASIC small ensemble, and was a charter member of River Valley Independent. He marched snare in the Razorback Marching Band for five years, where he was awarded “Outstanding Member” in 2013. He was an active member in the Arkansas Percussion Studio and concert bands during his undergraduate years. 

Kolby Palmore is an Educational Artist for Innovative Percussion