Colin Clarke returned in September of 2009 as the band's conductor.  Colin has had a long association with the Guelph Concert Band and after a brief sabbatical re-joined the band to continue the legacy he began in 2001.

Colin's popularity as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator and educator has captured the attention of instrumental and choral ensembles, schools and music festivals across Canada. Colin is best known as the founder and Artistic Director of the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, an organization he established while still in high school. In addition to directing this multi-award winning group, Colin is also the Musical Director of the Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra.

A recipient of the Clifford Evans Award for Conducting, Colin's credits include collaboration with groups such as the United States Air Force Band of Liberty, the Mendelssohn Choir, Canadian Brass and the U.S. Army Herald Trumpets - the official fanfare ensemble for the President of the United States. In 2004, he traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, to conduct the symphonies of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as a part of the International Conducting Workshop with the highly celebrated New Symphony Orchestra of Sofia, and studied with noted pedagogues Gustav Meier and Rossen Milanov. In the spring of 2006 Colin made his conducting debut at Carnegie Hall.

Colin was commissioned by the Coalition of Music Education in Canada to create two settings for wind band to commemorate the Coalition's first annual "Music Monday", a celebration which unites schools across the nation through the performance of the same music at the same moment in time. He has conducted several all-city and honour bands and orchestras across Southern Ontario, and had the distinct honour of being selected to conduct the National Youth Band of Canada in 2008.

Colin continues to establish himself as a prominent voice in music education and maintains a very active schedule as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator, and composer/arranger.