Fritz Benz has been the instrumental music director at South Kingstown High School in Rhode Island since 2016. He directs the concert band, jazz band and orchestras. Benz previously directed the award-winning jazz and concert bands for 24 years at North Smithfield High School and has held teaching positions at Providence College and the University of Rhode Island. He is an active freelance musician on trumpet and in the Rhode Island-based band Brass Attack, and has been an adjudicator, clinician and all- state conductor throughout Southern New England.