Nicholas Efstathiou

Background

About Nicholas Efstathiou

Nicholas C. Efstathiou is the Associate Band Director at Riverdale High School, Murfreesboro, Tennessee (2024-current). A native of Panama City, he has served as Director of Bands at Jeff Davis High School, Hazlehurst, Georgia (2019-2024) and Bay High School, Panama City, Florida (2006-2019). Nicholas has earned his Music Education Specialist Degree from Piedmont University, Master's Degree, and Bachelor's Degree from Troy University. He is currently serving on the board of the Southeastern United States High School and Middle School Concert Band Clinic and Honor Bands at Troy University. He has served as a motivational speaker, adjudicator, and clinician throughout the southeast. His high school groups have been selected to perform in Chicago's Thanksgiving Day Parade, the Orange Bowl Parade, the Con Brio Music Festival in Whistler, Canada, and the St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin, Ireland. Nicholas' professional memberships include the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, Tennessee Music Educators Association, NAfME, National Band Association, Florida Bandmasters Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, FarmHouse Fraternity, and Omicron Delta Kappa, among others. He was selected Bay High's Teacher of the Year for the 2009-2010 school year, elected to Bay District Schools Top Five Teacher of the Year, 2012 Top Ten of Best of Bay Most Influential Person, and the 2012 recipient of the Henshaw-Whitley Teaching Excellence Award.