Sim Flora's unique and varied career has included public school teaching in Southern Illinois, free-lance trombone work on the West Coast and in the St. Louis area and a seven year tenure as Musical Director at Six Flags Over St. Louis.

Dr. Flora works throughout the United States as an active soloist and clinician in the areas of jazz education and trombone performance, working with college, high school and junior high school groups. He has served on the faculty of Clark Terry’s All-American Jazz Camps and has held teaching positions at the University of Oklahoma and Oklahoma Baptist University.  

Sim Flora currently serves as chairman of the Department of Music Theory and Composition at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, where he teaches music theory, jazz studies and music technology courses.  A native of Southern Illinois, Sim earned his Ph.D. in Music Education from The University of Oklahoma in 1990.   

Dr. Flora has instrumental arrangements published by Southern Music, choral anthems published by the G. Lorenz Company and children’s songs published by LifeWay Christian Resources.  He and his son, Nick, operate Off The FLor Music, which, in 2003, released Dr. Flora’s debut CD recording entitled Sound Doctrine and in 2005, released Nick Flora’s recording, Already In Progress.   

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