Join today

Summit 26: Music: S3S1: Promoting Your Program and Why It Matters

    Our team

    Meet our team

    Clorese Porter
    Plano ISD
    Clorese Porter is in her seventh year as the head choral director at Plano Senior High School, and is in her 19th year of teaching choral music. Prior to PSHS, she was the head choral director at Grapevine High School. Choirs under Clorese's direction have consistently received sweepstakes awards at UIL Concert and Sight-Reading and she served as music director of multiple musicals on campus. Prior to Grapevine high school she was the associate choral director at Newman Smith High School where she co-directed on the 2010 A Cappella Choir invited performance at TMEA. 
    A graduate of Paul Dunbar High School in Fort Worth, Clorese attended Texas Christian University, earning a Bachelor of Music in Education degree. Clorese holds a Master of Music in Music Education from UNT. Clorese is a member of TMEA, TCDA, and TMAA, and she is the 2010 recipient of TCDA's Distinguished Young Director Award. Clorese is excited to join the Prosper ISD fine arts team as the first director of choirs at Richland High School for the 2025-2026 school year. 

    Bryan Buffaloe
    Clear Lake ISD
    Bryan Buffaloe is in his 30th year of teaching and has served the past 22 years as the head Director of Orchestras at Clear Lake High School. Under his direction the orchestras have received consistent superior ratings at UIL, Best in Class and at many music festivals. They have been named as a GRAMMY Signature School and were National Champions at the prestigious National Orchestra Gold Cup competition. His orchestras have been named TMEA State Honor Full Orchestra and TMEA State Honor String Orchestra multiple times during his tenure at Clear Lake HS.
    Aside from his teaching, Mr. Buffaloe is active as a clinician and adjudicator having conducted TMEA All-Region Orchestras as well as All-State Orchestras in South Carolina and Alabama. Mr. Buffaloe has served as Past-President of TODA and Orchestra Vice-President of TMAA, Mr. Buffaloe received the Fidelity Future Stage Award as an Outstanding Music Educator and Music Advocate for the city of Houston presented by the Houston Symphony. Bryan's professional memberships include TMEA, TODA, TMAA, ASTA and Mu Omicron.