Mr. Craig L. Manteuffel received his bachelor's degree from Fort Hays State University in 1986 and received his MLS from F.H.S.U. in the summer of 2002. Craig has twenty years of public school instrumental music teaching experience. He taught band and choir in the Otis-Bison school district from 1986-1996. During this time his concert bands received ten consecutive I ratings at State Music Festival for large groups. In 1994 his concert band received top honors in the small school division at the Festival of Music at World's of Fun in Kansas City.

Mr. Manteuffel has been director of bands for the past twelve years at Hays High School in Hays, Kansas. His concert bands have received eleven out of twelve I ratings at State Music Festival and his marching bands and jazz bands have consistently received I ratings at various festivals in Kansas, Missouri, and Colorado.

Craig received the Kansas Outstanding Young Bandmaster award from Phi Beta Mu in 1991 and was the honored high school educator from the KMEA northwest district in 2001. He has been the district band chair in the KMEA southwest district and is presently the site coordinator and president-elect for the northwest district. Mr. Manteuffel was the 2004-2005 Kansas All-State Band Festival Chairman and is a member of KBA, KMEA, MENC, KNEA, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia.

Craig has been a faculty member of High Plains Band Camp, F.H.S.U. for nineteen years and has been a clinician and judge in Kansas and Nebraska. He has a private lesson studio, plays tuba in the Fort Hays Brass Quintet, and sings bass in the Comeau Catholic Campus Center Choir. Mr. Manteuffel has studied conducting with Mr. Lyle Dilley, Dr. Ronald Scott, Dr. David Wilborn, Dr. Michael Robinson, and Dr. Robert Conger.

Craig has a wonderful support system from his wife Paula, and two sons, Michael age 24, and Matt age 21.