Faculty Biographies National Presenting Sponsor

2013 MUSIC FOR ALL SUMMER SYMPOSIUM, presented by Yamaha Symposium Division Coordinators and Educational Consultants

MARK BUSELLI Ensembles under Casagrande’s direction have been Division Coordinator selected to perform at honor clinics and festivals, and his Jazz Band bands have been consistent winners at marching and jazz Mark Buselli is Director of Jazz Studies contests and festivals. His ensembles have performed at the at Ball State University. Awards include French Reeds Festival in the French Riviera, at Orchestra Hall a 2010-2011 BSU College of Fine Arts in the Chicago Symphony Center, at Carnegie Hall in New Dean’s Creative Arts Award, a Creative York City, and throughout Europe. In 2007, the John Hersey Renewal grant from the Indianapolis Arts band program was awarded the prestigious Sudler Flag of Council in 2005, a Teacher of the Year Honor from the John Philip Sousa Foundation. award in 2004 at Butler University, a Creative Vision award from In 2004, Casagrande was one of three conductors in the NUVO in May of 2007, a top 10 CD release of 2009 (December United States chosen to participate in the National Band 2009) in JAZZIZ magazine for “An Old Soul,” and a top 100 CD Association International Conducting Symposium in Rome, of the decade (January 2010) in DownBeat magazine for the Italy, conducting the Italian National Army Band. Casagrande Buselli/Wallarab release of “Basically Baker.” Buselli has over 40 was inducted into the prestigious American Bandmasters arrangements published for big bands, brass ensemble and Association in 2009. He has been published in The piano/trumpet. He has nine recordings out as a leader on the Instrumentalist, The National Band Association Journal and Owlstudios and OA2 record labels. He has written/arranged/ has presented at the Illinois Music Educators Association State performed for numerous artists. Buselli currently serves as Convention. He currently serves as Second Vice President of Education Director of the Buselli Wallarab Jazz Orchestra/ the National Band Association. Midcoast Swing Orchestra in Indianapolis, where he has created numerous educational opportunities for over 10,000 WILLIAM GALVIN students. Buselli graduated from the Berklee School of Music in Music for All Educational Consultant Boston and received his Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies William Galvin is the former Director from Indiana University. of Instrumental Studies and Music Department Chair for the Trinity Area THOMAS CANEVA School District. A native of Pittsburgh, Division Coordinator Pennsylvania, he received his Bachelor of Concert Band Music Education degree from Morehead Dr. Thomas Caneva is Director of Bands, State University and Master of Music Professor of Music and Coordinator Education degree from Duquesne University. Galvin has of Ensembles and Conducting at Ball been awarded the National Band Association’s Citation of State University. At Ball State, Caneva’s Excellence and the Citation of Excellence presented by the responsibilities include conducting Pennsylvania Music Educators Association (PMEA). During the Wind Ensemble, coordinating the his tenure at Trinity High School, Galvin’s ensembles earned graduate wind conducting program, teaching undergraduate twenty-eight Superior Ratings and eight consecutive conducting and administering the entire band program. Pennsylvania Interscholastic Marching Band Association Class Under his direction, the BSU Wind Ensemble has performed Championships. His ensembles performed for five PMEA at CBDNA Regional and National Conferences, the American State Conferences, one Music Educators National Conference Bandmasters Association Convention, and state and regional Eastern Division Conference, and three Music For All National MENC conventions. Additional conducting appearances have Festivals. included university, public school and community bands Galvin was cited as an Outstanding Young Educator in as well as wind ensembles at district, regional and all-state America and has been listed in “Who’s Who Among American events. In 2001, Caneva was elected to membership in the Teachers.” He is conductor of the Washington (PA) Symphony American Bandmasters Association. He holds degrees from Chamber Orchestra. He has served on the board of directors the University of Illinois, the University of Texas at Austin and of the Washington Symphony Orchestra, as a member of the University of Colorado at Boulder. the Music for All Advisory Board, is a past president of the Washington County Music Educators Association, a past SCOTT J. CASAGRANDE PMEA District President, and a former chair of the PMEA Music Music for All Educational Consultant Booster Affiliate. In his retirement, Galvin continues to be Scott J. Casagrande has been Director active as a consultant, speaker and guest conductor. of Bands at John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, since 1999. He served previously as Director of Bands at Plainfield and Stephen Decatur High Schools. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. 1 SUSIE HARLOFF TIM LAUTZENHEISER Division Coordinator Music for All Senior Educational Color Guard Advisor Color Guard Instructor Academy Tim Lautzenheiser is a trusted friend to Susie Harloff is thrilled to be returning to anyone interested in working with young the Summer Symposium for her 16th year. people to develop a desire for excellence Harloff lives in Avon, Indiana, where she and a passion for high-level achievement. was a director, choreographer, instructor His career involves ten years of successful and technician for the Avon High School college band directing at Northern and Middle School color guard programs. She just finished Michigan University, the University of Missouri and New serving as color guard director for the 2013 Bands of America Mexico State University. He has also spent three years with Tournament of Roses Honor Band, her third time working McCormick’s Enterprises working as Executive Director of with this amazing group of students. Currently, she enjoys Bands of America. working with color guard programs around the country, In 1981, Lautzenheiser created Attitude Concepts for Today, including Jefferson High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Harloff Inc., an organization that manages workshops, seminars and is a third grade teacher in Indianapolis and refines her love of convention speaking engagements focusing on the area of performing by participating in numerous community theater positive attitude and effective leadership training. In the last productions during the year. She is married to the incredible three decades, over two million students have experienced Matt Harloff, has two children, Tyson Matthew and Shaelyn his acclaimed student leadership workshops. Rae, and is a self-professed Disney addict. Lautzenheiser’s books, produced by G.I.A. Publications, Inc., continue to be bestsellers in the educational world. He FRAN KICK presently serves as Senior Educational Consultant for Hal Division Coordinator Leonard, Inc., and as Senior Educational Advisor for Music for Leadership Weekend Experience All. Fran Kick, M.A. Educational Psychology, Lautzenheiser holds degrees from Ball State University CSP, author, professional speaker and and the University of Alabama. In 1995 he was awarded an consultant, knows What Makes Kids Honorary Doctorate from the VanderCook College of Music. Kick! Inspiring people to KICK IT IN® and He is presently an adjunct faculty member at Ball State TAKE THE LEAD since 1986, Fran is the University, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne creator and presenter of a series of self- and Butler University. In addition, he serves on the Midwest motivational personal leadership presentations and published Clinic Board of Directors and the Western International Band materials. Since taking an educational leave of absence from Clinic/American Band College Board of Directors. teaching band at Centerville High School (Ohio), he has developed his part-time speaking adventure into a full-time GARLAND E. MARKHAM mission. Every year Fran presents programs across the U.S. Music for All Senior Educational and Canada to thousands of college, high school and middle Consultant school students, plus the many people who work with them. Garland “Gary” Markham is currently Fran has served as the leadership coordinator for the Music for the Supervisor of Music for the Cobb All Summer Symposium since 1998. He also works with Drum County School District and previously Corps International each summer to help music students, spent 25 years as a band director in directors and parents Kick start their season with DCI (www. Pennsylvania, Georgia, and the Robinson kickitin.com/dci)! Fran is the coordinating lead-presenter for Secondary School in Fairfax County, the biannual Future Music Educators’ Experience with NAfME, Virginia. His programs have consistently received superior held every year at both the Bands of America Grand National ratings. In 1992, Colonel Eugene Allen, Director of the United Championships and the DCI World Championships (www. States Army Band, presented the Sudler Flag of Honor to the kickitin.com/nafme). Outside the music education world, Robinson Band, and Markham received the John Philip Sousa Fran speaks at many state, regional and national conferences Foundation’s Sudler Order of Merit, one of the multitude and has consulted with numerous schools, organizations and of awards he has received during his career. Markham has companies actively engaged in teaching and reaching today’s been inducted into the Phi Beta Mu Honorary Bandmasters kids. Fraternity in both Pennsylvania and in Virginia and has also been inducted into Music for All’s Bands of America (BOA) Hall BOBBY LAMBERT of Fame. Drum Major Institute Division Head Markham works internationally as a clinician, guest Bobby Lambert is currently Assistant conductor, adjudicator and consultant. He currently serves on Director of Bands at Marian Catholic several Metro Atlanta Arts Boards, the BOA Advisory Board, the High School in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Drum Corps International (DCI) Rules and Systems Taskforce, where he instructs the marching and and the Advisory Committee for the MidWest Clinic. He is concert bands. He earned a B.S. in the Chief Judge for BOA, Senior Education Consultant for Music Education from Western Carolina Music for All and Judge Education Director for DCI. Markham University and an M.M. in Saxophone received his B.S. degree from Mansfield State University, M. Performance from the University of Massachusetts. Ed. degree from Penn State University, and did Ph. D (ABD) study in conducting and music supervision at George Mason University.

2 MICHAEL MCINTOSH Saucedo travels throughout the country as an adjudicator, Division Coordinator clinician and guest conductor and has been a featured National Percussion Symposium clinician at a number of prominent conferences and clinics. Percussion Specialist Academy He has served as Music Caption Head for the Drum Corps Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of Midwest Judges Guild and as a music judge for Drum Corps America International. Michael McIntosh is a graduate of Butler Saucedo has also served as the brass composer/arranger University, where he earned a Bachelor for the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps and will be the brass of Arts degree in Music with an emphasis composer/arranger for the Blue Stars in 2013. Saucedo did his in Composition. McIntosh is on the creative team and also undergraduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington and one of two percussion designers and arrangers for the finished his master’s degree at Butler University in Indianapolis. Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. Since 1997, he has been the percussion designer for Carmel High School in Carmel, STAN SCHOONOVER Indiana. He is a former WGI judge and now designs for the Music for All Educational Consultant Gateway Indoor Independent World Percussion Ensemble. Stan Schoonover has served for He is a Yamaha artist/clinician and also endorses other music fourteen seasons as the founding industry members. McIntosh pushes the edge in electronic conductor of the Fairfax Wind design and programs for several top Bands of America and Symphony in Virginia. He retired from WGI groups. Compositionally, McIntosh has had works the Fairfax County Public Schools after commissioned for the Midwest Band Directors Convention thirty-two years of service to education, as well as the West Point Hellcats. He is an active clinician including eleven years as Music teaching clinics throughout the U.S. and Europe. He recently Supervisor. Ensembles under his direction have appeared at performed several clinics in Tokyo, Japan, and was the first Mid-West Clinics, the National Concert Band Festival, National American percussion specialist to be invited to Beijing, China, Music Clinics, and Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) to speak about percussion composition and electronic design. conferences. Schoonover received his B.S. Degree from Gettysburg NORM RUEBLING College and a Master of Music degree from West Chester Music for All Summer Symposium University. Postgraduate work has included study at the Camp Director – Students University of Virginia, George Mason University and the Norm Ruebling is currently president and University of Michigan. owner of MO-X “The Airport ConneXion” Schoonover is an active Past-President of the Virginia Band and “Doc & Norm Direct LLC” shuttle and Orchestra Directors Association (VBODA), a recipient and charter transportation companies of multiple Citation of Excellence awards from the National of St. Louis, Kansas City and Columbia, Bands Association, the 2006 VMEA Outstanding Administrator Missouri. Ruebling was former Associate Award, and the 2012 VBODA Philip J. Fuller Award for sustained Director of Bands at the University of Missouri, Director musical excellence. He is an elected member of the American of Bands at Emporia State University, Director of Bands at Bandmasters Association. Southeastern Louisiana State University, and Director of Bands at Union H.S. in Union, Missouri. As a nationally renowned ROBERT W. SMITH adjudicator and clinician, Ruebling has traveled to Europe, Division Coordinator Canada and throughout the United States. Ruebling serves as Middle School/Young Teacher Camp Director for the Music for All Summer Symposium, is a Academy member of the Bands of America Hall of Fame, and has been Robert W. Smith is one of the most associated with Bands of America for over 30 years. In addition, popular composers for band today. he performs as percussionist with his own musical group, He has over 600 publications, with “The Norm Ruebling Band,” and leads the dynamic sounds of the majority composed through his Columbia College’s “Cougar Brass.” long association with Warner Bros. Publications. He is currently published by the C. L. Barnhouse RICHARD L. SAUCEDO Company and serves as the Vice-President of Product Directors’ Academy Faculty Development for C. L. Barnhouse and Walking Frog Records. Music for All Educational Consultant Smith’s works for band have been programmed by Most recently the Director of Bands and countless professional, university and school ensembles Department Chairman at the William H. throughout North America, Europe, Australia, South America Duke Center for the Performing Arts at and Asia. His music has received extensive airplay on network Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana, television as well as inclusion in multiple motion pictures, Richard L. Saucedo retired at the end of including Tower Heist, released in 2011. His “Into The Storm” the 2012-13 school year after teaching was featured on the 2009 CBS Emmy Awards telecast for for 31 years. Under his direction, Carmel bands have received HBO’s mini-series documenting the life of Winston Churchill. numerous state and national honors. The Indiana Bandmasters Smith teaches in the Music Industry program at Troy Association named Saucedo Indiana’s “Bandmaster of the University. His teaching responsibilities are focused in Year” for 1998-99, and recently named him the state’s 2010 composition, production, publishing and business. “Outstanding Music Educator.” Saucedo is a freelance arranger and composer, having released numerous marching band arrangements, concert band works and choral compositions. He is currently on the writing staff for the Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. 3 DAVID STARNES DEAN WESTMAN Student Division Coordinator Division Coordinator Music for All Educational Consultant Strings Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of Music for All Educational Consultant America Dean Westman is the Performing Arts David Starnes joined the School of Department Chair and Orchestra Director Music at Western Carolina University at Avon High School in Avon, Indiana, in the summer of 2011 as Assistant where he also serves as a Program Professor/Director of Athletic Bands. Coordinator for the Avon High School He directs the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band and Marching Black and Gold. Previously, Westman worked as the Symphonic Band. Starnes graduated Magna Cum Laude the Educational Director for Bands of America and Orchestra from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1988, where America as well as held band director positions in Texas and he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Education. Illinois. Ensembles under his direction have won numerous Prior to coming to Western Carolina, Starnes was the founding honors and recognitions and have performed at Carnegie Director of Bands at Kennesaw Mountain High School in Hall and the prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago. In 2002, Kennesaw, Georgia, where he served for 11 years. Westman was named the Texas Young Bandmaster of the Starnes is sought out nationally and internationally as an Year. He has taught the Tenrikyo Aimaichi Marching Band adjudicator, clinician, guest conductor and creative designer. from Nagoya, Japan, which has frequently won the All-Japan He serves as an adjudicator for several state, national and Marching Band Championship. international organizations, including Music for All, where Westman continues to present clinics throughout the he is a member of the Advisory Board, and Winter Guard United States and Japan. An active instructor and arranger in International and Drum Corps International, where he served the drum corps activity, he has worked with the Cadets, Santa as an adjudicator and Percussion Caption Head from 1998- Clara Vanguard, the Cavaliers, Carolina Crown and the Troopers 2002. He also serves as an Educational Consultant at Music for Drum and Bugle Corps, as well as the Yokohama Scouts from All was appointed program director for the Bands of America Japan. Westman currently serves as the Program Coordinator Honor Band, which appeared in the Tournament of Roses® for the Bluecoats. Westman is a native of Park Ridge, Illinois, Parade in Pasadena, California, in 2005 and 2009. and a proud alumnus of the University of Illinois.

JAMIE WEAVER JEFF YOUNG Camp Director - SWAG Team Division Coordinator Jamie Weaver is the founder and director Marching Band of Front and Center Motivational Jeff Young has been the marching band Seminars and speaks to almost 20,000 track division head for the Music for All students, teachers and administrators Summer Symposium since 2010. He each year. He has a music education is the President and CEO of Dynamic degree from the University of Kentucky Marching & Music. Young teaches and is currently pursuing his master’s AP Biology and Human Anatomy & degree in Educational Leadership from the University of Texas Physiology at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana. He has at Arlington. Jamie has been with the Music for All Summer a degree in Biology from the University of Notre Dame as Symposium since 1991 as Drum Major and Leadership well as a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Weekend Clinician and has been Director of the SWAG Team Indiana University. Young is the visual caption head for the since 2002. He was Director of Bands at Creek Valley MS (TX) Carmel Marching Band (2005 & 2012 Bands of America Grand and on staff with the Hebron HS (TX) Band from 2001-2012 National Champions). He judges for Drum Corps International and just finished his first year as Associate Director of Bands at and Bands of America and enjoys being a judge, drill designer, Liberty HS in Frisco, Texas. Since 2001, you can frequently find and clinician/consultant for marching band programs across Jamie “at-the-gate” at many of the Bands of America Regional the country. Championships as well as the Grand National Championships held each November in Indianapolis.

4 Faculty and Clinicians

JEREMY ALLEN leadership, has earned a reputation for outstanding music Jazz Band – Bass performances. The Wolverine Marching Band has performed Jeremy Allen teaches bass and directs for many regional marching band festivals, parades and special large and small jazz ensembles at the guest appearances. The wind ensemble and symphonic Indiana University Jacobs School of concert band have performed music of the highest academic Music. He has performed with Fred caliber, while the jazz ensembles have performed for Hersch, Bob Brookmeyer’s New Art numerous jazz festivals as well as provided music for the Orchestra, Randy Brecker, Tim Hagans, Inaugural Ball of former Pennsylvania governor, Tom Ridge. Eric Alexander, Rich Perry, George Dr. Arnold is in demand as a guest conductor, clinician Garzone and many other jazz luminaries. Allen can be heard and adjudicator throughout the United States and Canada. on releases by Bob Brookmeyer and Kenny Wheeler, the Luke He received his Bachelor of Science in Music Education at Gillespie Trio, the AHA! Quintet, Ritmos Unidos, Sara Caswell, Geneva College, a Master of Music Education from Duquesne the Dave Lisik Jazz Orchestra, the Corey Christiansen Group University and a Doctorate from the University of Houston. and many others. In May of 2013, Dr. Arnold received the Henry N. Mancini Allen has been invited to perform at the Terni (Italy) Jazz Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the Festival; the International Association of Jazz Educators Musical Enrichment of the Beaver Valley (his birthplace) during Conferences in New York City and Toronto; the Jazz Educators his induction into the Beaver Valley Musician’s Hall of Fame. Dr. Network Conventions in St. Louis, Louisville, and Atlanta; Arnold holds numerous professional affiliations, including in the Iowa City Jazz Festival; and at the United Nations the American Bandmasters Association, and is past president headquarters. He holds a bachelor’s degree in music from of the PA Collegiate Bandmasters Association. Indiana University and a master’s degree in jazz performance from the New England Conservatory. SCOTT-LEE ATCHISON Marching Band and Directors’ DAN ALRED Academy Marching Band – Visual Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of Dan Alred is a junior studying America Management with a minor in Music Scott-Lee Atchison is the newly History and Composition at Purdue appointed Assistant Director of Bands University in West Lafayette, Indiana. and Director of Athletic Bands at the Alred has been on the visual staff for University of Kentucky. Previously, Atchison served as the Carmel High School Marching Band the Associate Director of Bands at Texas A&M University - for the past two seasons. He has been playing trumpet for Commerce, where he oversaw significant growth of the nine years and marched for four years in high school with marching band, more than doubling it in size and earning an the Carmel Marching Band. Alred is a brother of the Gamma invitation to perform at Texas UIL State Championships. Omicron Chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity at Atchison received a master’s degree from the University Purdue. of Tennessee and a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of North Texas. He recently completed his ROBBIE ARNOLD doctoral residency at the University of Washington and will Color Guard soon complete the requirements for a Doctor of Musical Arts Robbie Arnold is currently a third grade teacher in the Clark in Conducting. County School System in Winchester, Kentucky. He serves Atchison is currently the Brass Caption Head for The on Site Based Decision Making Council and on the Behavior Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps, and he serves as an active Response to Intervention Committee as Secretary. Arnold also designer and clinician with marching bands and drum corps coaches the successful academic team. throughout the country. Atchison is a Yamaha Performing His color guard experience includes performing with the Artist and a contributing author for the book series “A Madison Scouts (1999( and the Pride of Cincinnati (2003(. He Composer’s Insight: Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary has been the color guard director for Adair County since 2002, on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band (Volume IV),” lead designer for Beechwood High School (2005-2012) and where he collaborated with Pulitzer Prize winning composer been an integral part of the guard/design staff at Lafayette David Del Tredici on a chapter featuring his contribution to High School in Lexington, Kentucky since 2007. Arnold has wind band and American music. also been the Assistant Director of the Lexis Winter Guard since its inception in 2011. TOM AUNGST Robbie is married to Dana Arnold from Winchester, Marching Percussion Director Kentucky, and she also instructs and judges around the area. National Percussion Symposium They have two children, Hayden, 5, and Hudson, 2. Sponsored in part by Yamaha Corporation of America, Vic Firth, DR. EDWIN P. ARNOLD Zildjian and Remo Middle School/Young Teacher As the Percussion Caption Supervisor and Academy arranger of the Cadets Drum and Bugle Dr. Edwin P. Arnold serves as Director of Corps, Tom Aungst captured seven DCI Bands and Chair of the Department of World Championship rings, five Fred Sanford High Percussion Music and Fine Arts at Grove City College, trophies, and nine runner-up titles. whose band program, under Dr. Arnold’s A member of the Cadets from 1981-1984, Aungst went on

5 to become a lead percussion tech with the corps from 1985- GREG BIMM 1988 before assuming the caption supervisory role in 1989, a Directors’ Academy position he still holds today. In 2006, Tom was inducted into Greg Bimm has been Director of Bands at the DCI Hall of Fame. Marian Catholic High School since 1977. In life outside drum corps, Aungst is the Percussion Director Under his direction, the Marian Band has for the Dartmouth Public School System in Dartmouth, become one of the premier high school Massachusetts. His job includes teaching percussion students band programs in the United States. at all levels of the program, from the beginning students Marian has been named the Bands of in 4th grade, to the middle and high school percussionists. America Grand National Champion seven times and is the Under Tom’s direction, Dartmouth High School has captured only marching band to win the Grand National Champion two WGI Indoor Percussion championships (1998 & 1999) and title three consecutive years. The Marian Catholic Symphonic has consistently placed in the top three. Band was one of only eight bands invited to perform at the first National Concert Band Festival in 1992. GABRIEL BEACH Among other accolades, Bimm has received five National National Percussion Symposium Band Association Citations of Excellence; was named the 1983 national winner of the ASBDA Stanbury award for SCOTT BELCK young band directors; received the Sudler Order of Merit Jazz Band – Trumpet from the John Philip Sousa Foundation; and has been elected Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of to membership in the prestigious American Bandmasters America Association. Bimm holds degrees from Illinois State and Dr. Scott Belck is the Director of Jazz Western Illinois Universities. In constant demand, Bimm has Studies and Commercial Music, Associate performed as conductor, clinician, adjudicator, drill writer and Professor of Music at the University music arranger throughout the United States and Canada. of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory Bimm was a 2005 inductee into the Music for All Hall of of Music (CCM), where he directs the CCM Jazz Ensemble Fame. His input and expertise have been instrumental in and teaches applied Jazz Trumpet. He currently serves as guiding the direction of Bands of America programming. the Artistic Director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Jazz Orchestra. He is a founding member of critically acclaimed MICHAEL BOLLA Tromba Mundi contemporary trumpet ensemble and Marching Band – Baritone/Trombone the author of “Modern Flexibilities for Brass,” published by Michael Bolla is currently the Director Meredith Music. of Bands and Music Department Chair Belck has served as trumpet and cornet soloist with the at Center Grove Middle School North, Air Force Band of Flight in Dayton, Ohio, where he also held located in Greenwood, Indiana. In addition the post of musical director for the Air Force Night Flight Jazz to his duties at Middle School North, Ensemble. His playing credits include lead trumpet/featured he serves as an Assistant Director of the soloist with the Cincinnati Pops featuring the Manhattan Center Grove High School Marching Band and is also a director Transfer, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, and jazz soloist with the of the Center Grove High School Winter Color Guard Program. North Texas One O’clock Lab Band, with whom he recorded Bolla is a graduate of Indiana University’s Jacobs School of four CDs. Music, where he performed as a trombonist in many of the Belck has performed as lead trumpet with the St. Louis school’s top ensembles. Symphony, Indianapolis Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony, Outside of Center Grove, Michael is an active clinician, as well as touring Broadway shows and numerous regional arranger and composer. He has served as a brass staff member and national recording sessions. for The Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps as well as the brass caption head for The Colts Drum and Bugle Corps. GENE BERGER Bolla has arranged and composed for a number of marching Concert Band – Horn bands throughout the United States. Gene P. Berger is the Assistant Professor Bolla currently resides in Greenwood, Indiana, with his wife, of Horn at Ball State University and Susie, and their three dogs, Barley, Lucy and Betty. Please feel member of the Musical Arts Woodwind free to contact Mr. Bolla at [email protected]. Quintet. In addition to his teaching position, Berger is the Principal Horn JOEL BRAUN with Southwest Florida Symphony. Prior Strings – Cello/Bass to his appointment at Ball State University in 2010, Berger Joel Braun is the new assistant professor was a member of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, of music instruction (double bass) at Cincinnati Pops, and the Florida Orchestra. He can be heard Ball State University. He is a graduate of on numerous recordings with the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra The Juilliard School, receiving his B.M. conducted by Erich Kunzel and the Grammy winning in 2005 and M.M. in 2007. A native of St. recordings of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under Louis, Missouri, Joel started double bass conductor Paavo Järvi. studies with Juilliard alumna Sue Stubbs in 1996. In 1999 he Berger has been an active educator, formerly teaching at began primary studies with Eugene Levinson at the Aspen the Interlochen Arts Academy and the University of Central Music Festival and The Juilliard School Pre-College Division. Florida. He has presented master classes, lectures, educational Braun is a past recipient of the Aspen Music Festival String recitals and hosted clinics throughout North America. In the Fellowship. He has held faculty positions in double bass at summers, Berger is on the faculty of the Music for All Summer The Juilliard School Pre-College Division and the Kaufman Symposium camp and the Filarmonica Joven de Colombia. Center in New York City. As a performer, he has concertized with such ensembles as the New York City Ballet, the Israel 6 Philharmonic, and the New York Philharmonic. From the 2006- with a double concentration in vocal and instrumental music. 2007 season through the 2011-2012 season, Braun was a full While at WCU, Burgess was very active as a trumpet player time substitute musician with the New York Philharmonic. in a number of ensembles and was also drum major of the During that time, he participated in numerous domestic and Pride of the Mountains for three years, including conducting international tours, including the Philharmonic’s historic trip the band in exhibition at the 1998 Bands of America Grand to North Korea in 2008. As a recitalist, Braun has premiered Nationals and in exhibition for the Atlanta Falcons’ halftime. Bezhad Ranjbaran’s “Elegy for Double Bass and Piano” and He has served as trumpet teacher and clinician, drum major Manuel Sosa’s “Tractus V,” a piece written for and dedicated to clinician and adjudicator, and has also been on staff for several him. marching band programs. Burgess has a number of professional affiliations, including BOB BUCKNER the National Association for Music Education, South Carolina Directors’ Academy Music Educators Association and the National Association of Bob Buckner retired as Director of Athletic Teachers of Singing, among others. He was a 2010 recipient of Bands at Western Carolina University in the NATS Emerging Leaders Award. 2011. A graduate of WCU, Buckner began his teaching career at Sylva-Webster High MICHAEL BURNS School in Sylva, NC, where he led the Concert Band – Bassoon marching band to be Bands of America Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of National Champion at the 1979 BOA Summer Nationals. America Buckner served on the Bands of America Advisory Board and Bassoonist Michael Burns has an active was instrumental in developing the Grand Nationals format career as a teacher and performer. He is and launching the National Concert Band Festival. He has Professor of Bassoon at the University of been on the faculty of the Summer Symposium since the North Carolina at Greensboro and is a 1980’s, and his innovations in drill design have helped set the Yamaha Performing Artist. He has recorded for the Centaur, direction for modern marching bands. CAP, Telarc, EMI, Klavier, and Mark labels, and his solo CD Buckner has served as an adjudicator, drill designer, guest “Primavera: Music for Bassoon and Piano by Bassoonists” conductor and clinician throughout the United States, Canada (2009) was released to critical acclaim. He currently performs and Europe, working with groups such as the Spirit of Atlanta, as a soloist and in chamber and orchestra groups, with Carolina Crown and U.S. Marine Drum and Bugle Corps as well numerous recent performances at International Double Reed as the Walt Disney Company. Society conventions, recitals and master classes throughout Buckner received the Paul A. Reid Distinguished Service North America, Germany, China and the South Pacific. He Award by Western Carolina University in 2003, and in 2005, he serves as principal bassoon with the Asheville Symphony, the was honored by the Music Educators National Conference as North Carolina Opera Company and the Carolina Ballet and a Lowell Mason Fellow. Buckner’s other professional affiliations as bassoonist in the EastWind Ensemble, the Blue Mountain include the Western North Carolina Bandmasters, North Ensemble and Forecast Music. He also performs regularly Carolina Bandmasters Association, NCMENC, NAfME, CBDNA with the North Carolina and Greensboro Symphonies and and the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. as a guest with the Ciompi Quartet and Mallarme Chamber Players. His students have earned positions on the faculties of JONATHAN BURBANK some of the leading universities in the U.S. In summers, Burns National Percussion Symposium has been associated with the InterHarmony International Sponsored in part by Vic Firth Music Festival in Tuscany, Italy, the Eastern Music Festival and Jonathan Burbank is in his fifth year as the Affetti and Chugach Music Festivals in Alaska. For more Associate Director of Bands and Director information, please visit www.michaelburnsbassoon.com of Percussion Studies and World Music at Blythewood High School in Blythewood, LEE CARLSON South Carolina. Before moving to South Directors’ Academy Carolina in 2008, Burbank had taught in Texas, West Virginia, Lee Carlson is an adjudicator for Bands Louisiana and California, as well as teaching on staff with The of America, Drum Corps International, Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps from 1996-2002. Burbank’s and winter guard circuits throughout groups have been featured at the SC Music Educators the United States. He was Visual Caption Association Conference, the SC Day of Percussion and the Head for DCI for three years and served National School Board Association Conference. Burbank is a an additional two years as one of the member of the Vic Firth Education Team and currently lives Visual Judge Liaisons. Currently, Carlson is serving as the in Elgin, SC, with his wife Mary Kathryn and their two sons Judge Recruiting and Training coordinator for DCI. He has Andrew and Ethan. been on panels for the British Marching Band Championship, Drum Corps Japan, Marching Band Japan, and both winter MAURICE BURGESS guard and marching band shows in the Netherlands. He has Drum Major Institute been drill designer for the University of Southern California Maurice Burgess serves as Director of Trojan Marching Band for the last 31 years. Carlson lives in Choral and Drama Activities at Broome Palm Springs, California, where he owns and operates his High School in Spartanburg, SC, and has pottery studio. also been a voice instructor with the Lawson Academy of the Arts since fall 2006. Burgess is a graduate of Western Carolina University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in music education 7 COLONEL THOMAS H. CHAPMAN, JR. (1987-1990.) Leadership Weekend Experience Coble is active in the Tampa Bay area, performing as Chief Nurse, U.S. Army Cadet Principal Trumpet for Opera Tampa since 2004 and performing Command as lead trumpet on touring Broadway productions at the Straz Colonel Thomas H. Chapman, Jr. was Center for the Performing Arts. Coble has performed in the commissioned as a Second Lieutenant Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria, and he has also been a in the Army Nurse Corps Reserves in member of the Ambassador Brass Quintet since 2008. In 2010 1982 after graduating from Norfolk State and 2011 the Ambassador Brass toured China, performing University with an Associate Degree in Nursing. Col. Chapman and presenting master classes. entered active duty after obtaining his Bachelor of Nursing Coble founded a trumpet quartet called the North Degree from Hampton University in 1984. Later education American Trumpet Alliance in 2011. This group has a mission includes a M.A. in Health Services Management from Webster to commission new works and perform around the world. University and a Masters of Nursing from Georgia State Coble is a Yamaha Performing Artist. University. Col. Chapman is a graduate of the AMEDD Officers Basic and Advance Courses, the Combined Arms and Services LTC PATRICIA A. COBURN Staff School, Command and General Staff College and the Leadership Weekend Experience Defense Strategy Course from the United States Army War Deputy Chief Nurse, U.S. Army Cadet College. Command In 2010, Col. Chapman was assigned as Chief Nurse, Cadet LTC Patricia A. Coburn was commissioned Command, and held several prior key positions within the as a Second Lieutenant in 1993 Army Medical Department. Other past services, among through the Army ROTC Program upon others, include assignments in Operations and S-2, Plans, completing her Bachelor of Science Mobilizations, Training and Security, Oncology Service, degree in nursing at the University Education Services, and as a member of the world-wide burn of Kansas. Other professional degrees include a M.A. in flight team in Houston as an Intensive Care Critical Care Nurse. Management from Webster University and a M.S. in Nursing Colonel Chapman’s awards and decorations include the from the Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD. Bronze Star, Meritorious Services Medal, Army Commendation LTC Coburn is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Nursing from Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Aircraft Crew Member, Chowan University in Murfreesboro, NC. She is a graduate of Recruiting badges and the Order of Military Merit medal. the AMEDD Officer’s Basic and Advance Course, the Combined Arms and Services Staff School, Command and General Staff SHANNON CLARK College, and the Defense Strategy Course. Color Guard In 2012, LTC Coburn was assigned as Deputy Chief Nurse, Shannon Clark serves as the color guard Cadet Command, where she works with the Brigade Nurse coordinator for the Lafayette High Counselors assisting in recruiting and retaining the Army’s School Band Association, a position she finest. She continues to see patients at Nelson Health Clinic has filled since 2001. She also serves as when time allows. Prior to this assignment, LTC Coburn was assistant director of Lexis Winter Guard. the Chief of the Primary Care Division at Kenner Army Health Her marching experience began in high Clinic. She was the first person of color in the Army Nurse school and continued with such groups as the Bluecoats, the Corps assigned to the Army Physical Fitness Research Institute, Crossmen, Phantom Regiment, Chimeras Winterguard and United States Army War College. the Pride of Cincinnati. Shannon has worked with many guard LTC Coburn’s awards and decorations include the programs across the Midwest including Pioneer Drum and Meritorious Services Medal, Army Commendation Medal and Bugle Corps, Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps and Carolina Army Achievement Medal. Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, as well as a multitude of high school programs. Shannon received her Bachelor of Arts in DAVID COLLIER Elementary and Special Education from the University of Concert Band Percussion Coordinator Kentucky in 2005 and her master’s in Teacher Leadership with Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of a certification in Instructional Technology from Georgetown America College in Georgetown, Kentucky, in 2012. She currently Dr. David Collier is Associate Professor works at Lafayette High School as a collaborative and resource of Music and Director of Percussion special education teacher. Studies at Illinois State University. He was recently named the College of Fine Arts JAY COBLE Outstanding Teacher for 2012. Concert Band – Trumpet Collier is currently principal timpanist with the Illinois Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Chamber Orchestra, the America Peoria Symphony Orchestra and the Heartland Festival Jay Coble is Professor of Trumpet Orchestra. In addition, Collier is also active as a freelance at the University of South Florida in percussionist and has performed with artists such as Tampa. He earned a doctorate (DMA) Mannheim Steamroller, Marvin Hamlisch, Joel Gray, Mitzi from the University of Southern Gaynor, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Tony Bennett, Petula California, a master’s degree from Indiana University and an Clark, Aretha Franklin, Tommy Tune, Roger Williams, Shirley undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University. Jones and Bobby Vinton. Prior to coming to USF, he was a freelance trumpet artist in Collier received his Bachelor of Music degree from Florida the Los Angeles area recording for television shows, movies, State University, his Master of Music degree from Indiana commercials and CDs. He has toured North America with the University and his doctorate in Percussion Performance and Buddy Rich Band (1982) and worldwide with singer Tom Jones Electronic Music from the University of Illinois. His teachers 8 include Gary Werdesheim, George Gaber, Barry Jekowsky, ELIZABETH CRAWFORD Richard Holmes, Thomas Siwe, William Moersch and Scott Concert Band – Clarinet Wyatt. Elizabeth Crawford is Associate Professor Collier has served as an adjudicator for Drum Corps of Music at Ball State University, where International and Bands of America. He is an artist/clinician she teaches clarinet and performs with for a number of percussion music industry members and a the Musical Arts Woodwind Quintet. Performing Artist for Yamaha. Prior to her tenure at Ball State, Dr. Crawford taught at colleges in Florida, MATT CONAWAY the Stevenson School in Monterey Middle School/Young Teacher and the Hill House School in London. She has given classes Academy throughout the United States and in South Africa and Matt Conaway is an Assistant Professor was a long time member of the Jacksonville Symphony of Bands at Purdue University in West Orchestra. She has worked with the Baltimore Chamber Lafayette, IN. He serves as Associate Orchestra, Colorado Music Festival, Baltimore Opera Orchestra, Director of the “All-American” Marching Indianapolis Symphony and Fort Wayne Philharmonic, and in Band, directs the Concert and Varsity the United Kingdom, she performed extensively with virtually Bands, assists with the basketball pep bands as a director and all of the major British orchestras. An active member of the arranger, and is the department’s technical coordinator. Prior International Clarinet Association, she has also performed for to this appointment, he served for ten years as Director of the International Double Reed Society and the National Flute Bands for the West Lafayette Community School Corporation. Association. She is the Indiana State Chair of the International Conaway attended Indiana University, where he received Clarinet Association and Coordinator of the ICA’s High School his Bachelor of Music Education with Distinction in 2001. He Clarinet Competition. earned a Master of Music degree from the American Band College of Sam Houston State University in 2010. Conaway FRANK CROCKETT is an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma and Kappa Kappa Leadership Weekend Experience Psi, and was recently inducted into the Gamma Chapter of Frank Crockett has been leading and Phi Beta Mu. He is also a respected composer and arranger for facilitating leadership and team building bands, publishing music with the C.L. Barnhouse company of experiences for over 20 years. Crockett Oskaloosa, IA. has a background in education with an emphasis in therapeutic recreation. He MARCEL COULOMB also is a certified ropes course facilitator National Percussion Symposium and has been for over 20 years. Crockett Marcel Coulomb currently serves as Drumline/Percussion uses an experiential approach for his presentations, allowing Director at Westfield High School in Westfield, Indiana. people to work through challenges that are presented. Following each exercise, the group then debriefs the ANDREW D. CRAFT experience to capture learning in the “here and now” and Drum Major Institute “metaphorically” helping people relate the learning back In 2001, Andrew Craft received the to where they are coming from. Crockett has worked with North Carolina Teaching Fellows hundreds of school groups, teaching staff, sports teams and Scholarship to study music at Western focus groups. He also has worked with large companies and Carolina University. At Western, Craft organizations providing leadership workshops and team studied applied saxophone, conducting, building experiences. Crockett currently is a full-time pastor orchestration, and drill design and served at SouthBrook Christian Church in Dayton, OH, with over 4000 as drum major for the WCU Pride of the Mountains Marching people in attendance every weekend. He has the unique Band. He currently assists in instructing with conducting and opportunity to utilize experiential learning with families, leadership activities at the Western Carolina University Drum students and men at SouthBrook. Crockett has been married Major and Leadership Academy. to his lovely wife Tamara for 25 years and has five kids ranging In 2005, Craft received the Teaching Assistantship to from 6 to 20, three boys and two girls. the University of Massachusetts to study saxophone with world-renowned saxophonist, Lynn Klock. While at UMASS, NATHAN DAUGHTREY Craft taught college methods classes, private lessons, and National Percussion Symposium performed with the university’s top ensembles. Sponsored in part by Yamaha His teaching career started at Wilkes Central High School Corporation of America and Vic Firth and Central Wilkes Middle School, where he earned Central Whether performing nationally as a Wilkes their first Superior at MPA. Craft is currently Director marimba/vibraphone artist, composing of Bands at Ronald Reagan High School in Pfafftown, North for other performers, or teaching at Carolina, where his marching, concert and jazz groups the university level, Nathan Daughtrey consistently earn Superior ratings. Craft’s professional is a musical chameleon who uses his affiliations include North Carolina Teaching Fellows, Phi Mu wide-ranging talents to adapt comfortably to a variety of Alpha Sinfonia, Music Educators National Conference, North environments. As a performing artist and clinician for Yamaha Carolina Music Educators Association, Pi Lambda Theta Honor and Vic Firth, Dr. Daughtrey has performed and given master Society and the North American Saxophone Alliance. classes and clinics in venues throughout the United States and across three continents. With over sixty publications for concert band, percussion ensemble, chamber ensembles and soloists as well as an ever-growing number of commissions, his compositions have been performed at national and 9 international conferences, including PASIC, the Midwest Clinic In 2009, Erwin completed his Specialist Degree in Music and the Music for All National Percussion Festival. Daughtrey Education at Auburn University. He also holds a Master’s is currently a Visiting Lecturer of Percussion and Music Degree in Music Education from the University of Georgia’s Composition at High Point University (NC), where he teaches Hugh Hodgson School of Music. applied lessons, directs the percussion ensemble and works From 2002-2008, Erwin was a member of the Visual Staff in collaboration with the School of Communication and for the World Champion Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps, Department of Dance. Rosemont, IL. Prior to becoming a staff member, Erwin marched trumpet and soprano bugle in the Cavaliers (2000- ARYN DAY-SWEENEY 2001). He also marched in the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Concert Band – Flute Bugle Corps (96-99). Prizewinning oboist, Aryn Day Sweeney, is Erwin currently resides in Hiram, GA, with his wife, Aaren, Assistant Professor at Ball State University a Spanish teacher at McEeachern High School; two sons, and principal oboist of the Musical William and Andrew; and two dogs, Scooby and Kaya. Arts Woodwind Quintet, Lexington Philharmonic and the Muncie Symphony MIKE FANSLER Orchestra. Her recent recording, entitled Concert Band, Conductor “Les Illuminations,” is currently available Mike Fansler is professor of music and on iTunes and through CD Baby. She has performed with director of bands at Western Illinois several prominent artists and orchestras including Zubin University. He has conducted in Australia, Mehta, Jeffery Tate, Peter Schreir, the Indianapolis Chamber South America, Europe, and throughout Orchestra, and the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. As well as giving the United States. He completed research solo recitals throughout the United States and England, she at the Grainger Museum (Australia) and has been a featured performer on CBC Radio 2, a 2008 Kia presented on Grainger at the Midwest Borrego commercial, and performed as principal oboe in Clinic. During a sabbatical in 2012, he lectured at Universidade the Rocky Mountain PBS presentation of Beethoven’s “Ninth Federale de Bahia, Colégio Militar de Salvador, and the Symphony.” Dr. Sweeney has been on the faculties of East Universidade Católica de Salvador in Brazil. Tennessee State University, Colorado Mesa University, Idyllwild With the WIU Wind Ensemble, Fansler has performed Summer Arts Festival, and Wayne State University. internationally, at various conferences, twice in Chicago’s Orchestra Hall, and has released five recordings: “Live in DOUGLAS DROSTE Chicago,” “Till Eulenspiegel,” “The Promise of Living,” “Words of Strings, Conductor Love,” and “IV,” Maslanka’s fourth symphony. Douglas Droste is the newly appointed Fansler received his education from James Madison Artistic Director of the Muncie Symphony University, Syracuse University, and the University of Illinois. Orchestra and Director of Orchestras at His affiliations include the American Bandmasters Association, Ball State University. Most recently, Droste College Band Directors National Association, National served as Director of Orchestral Studies at Association for Music Education, Illinois Music Educators Oklahoma State University and Principal Association, Phi Beta Mu, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. Guest Conductor of the Oklahoma City Philharmonic. CHRISTOPHER FERRELL An advocate of youth orchestras and music education, Directors’ Academy Droste regularly conducts all-state and region orchestras Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of throughout the country and serves as a clinician and America adjudicator for school orchestras and festivals. He also Christopher Ferrell is Director of Bands at established a Young People’s Concert series with the OSU Hillgrove High School in Powder Springs, Orchestra. Georgia, in the Cobb County School Droste studied conducting at the Pierre Monteux School, District. Formerly Associate Director Oregon Bach Festival with Helmuth Rilling, as well as other of Bands at L.D. Bell High School in prominent conducting seminars. His primary conducting Hurst, Texas, and Director of Bands at Harwood Junior High mentors include Gary Lewis, Larry Rachleff, Michael Jinbo, School in Bedford, Texas, he has also served on the staff of David Lockington and Jose-Luis Novo. the acclaimed Texas Wind Symphony and performed with On violin, Droste has performed with the orchestras of the Dallas Wind Symphony. His bands and organizations Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Nashville, Memphis, Lubbock and the have presented clinics and concerts for the Ohio Music Lancaster Festival. He studied with John Gilbert and the late Educators Association and throughout the North Texas area, Michael Davis. Droste is also proficient on viola and trumpet, including the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. Ferrell and has sung in a variety of choral ensembles. Droste holds also served as saxophone instructor at the University of Texas degrees from The Ohio State University and Texas Tech at Arlington Summer Music Camp. He received degrees University. from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and did additional study in conducting and saxophone performance at the PATRICK ERWIN Oberlin Conservatory, the University of Cincinnati College- Directors’ Academy Conservatory of Music and the University of North Texas. Patrick Erwin has been the Assistant Ferrell holds a Master of Education in Music Education from Director of Bands at Hillgrove High Auburn University, and is a candidate for the Doctor of School since the school opened in 2006. Philosophy of Music Education at Auburn University. His primary teaching responsibilities include the Symphonic Band, Concert 1 Band and Marching Band. 10 KATRINA FITZPATRICK Jim Snidero and Rodney Whitaker. Gillespie has published Marching Band – Flute articles on the aesthetics of jazz and classical music as well as Katrina Fitzpatrick is the band director at a book, “Stylistic II/V7/I Voicings for Keyboardists.” Morton Jr. High School in Morton, IL. She received her Bachelor of Music Education MICHAEL GRAY from Bradley University in 2001. At Illinois Directors’ Academy State, she earned her master’s degree Michael Gray is an acclaimed in Music Education in 2006. She is the Impressionist painter with representation woodwind instructor for the Morton High in eight galleries throughout the United School Marching Band. The MHS Marching Band has won States. His paintings can be found in eight consecutive 2A Illinois State Championships since 2005. government, corporate and private Fitzpatrick is honored to have served as the guest conductor collections throughout the world and in both concert and jazz festivals throughout Illinois. She at www.studiomichaelgray.com. Gray is a member of Phi Beta Mu and a flutist in the Prairie Wind was a charter member of the Governor’s “Canvas the Arts” Ensemble. When she is not at band rehearsals or events, she committee and is a founding member of the Daedelus enjoys spending time with her husband, Craig. Workshop Theater and On Stage Theater. His career as a judge, designer and clinician covers over GLENN FUGETT 25 years in the activity and includes numerous awards and Directors’ Academy accolades. He has served as designer and clinician for award- Sponsored in part by Yamaha winning marching bands, drum corps and winter guards Corporation of America and Vic Firth throughout the country. Glenn Fugett is currently the Head Gray served three years as the Ensemble Analysis Facilitator Band Director at Legacy High School in and caption head for Winter Guard International, where he Mansfield, Texas, a position he’s held since judged World Championships numerous times. He is an the school opened in August of 2007. He Ensemble Visual, General Effect and Color Guard Judge for has also served as the Associate Director Drum Corps International, and has also had the repeated of Bands at Westlake High School in Austin and as Head Band honor of judging DCI World Championships and the Director at Calallen Middle School in Corpus Christi. Japanese Drum Corp Championships. He serves as a Summer Ensembles under Fugett have won numerous awards Symposium clinician and is an active judge for Music for All. throughout the United States, performing at events such as A resident of Charleston, Gray is currently in his fifth year as Bands of America Regional Marching Championships; the Visual Coordinator at Wando High School in Mount Pleasant, Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California; the 4a UIL South Carolina. State Marching Band Contest; the 4a Texas State Honor Band Competition; the South Coast Music Festival; the American CHARLES GREGGERSON Bandmasters Association Convention in Dallas, Texas; and the Concert Band Midwest Clinic in Chicago. Fugett is an artist with Yamaha and Vic Firth as well as a CAROLE GROOMS sought-after clinician, and has been a Music for All Summer Middle School/Young Teacher Symposium clinician for the last eight years. Additionally, he is Academy a long-standing judge for Bands of America and Drum Corps Carole Smith Grooms attended Tennessee International. Fugett was Percussion Caption Head for DCI for Technological University, majoring in five years, and this year will serve as Music Judge Liason. He is music with piano emphasis and earning a member of the Texas Music Educators Association and the a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Percussive Arts Society. Education. She holds a Master of Arts in Music degree from the University of LUKE GILLESPIE Hawaii, Manoa. Jazz Band – Piano An educator for 29 years, Grooms currently teaches band, Luke Gillespie is Professor of Music (Jazz strings and guitar at Freedom Intermediate and Middle Studies/Piano) at Indiana University’s Schools in the Franklin Special School District in Franklin, TN. Jacobs School of Music. An active The Freedom Jazz Band has performed at such events as the performer and teacher of jazz and National Middle School Association’s National Conference, classical piano, he has toured Europe, the American School Band Directors Association’s National Japan, China, Indonesia and the United Convention and the Middle TN State University Jazz Festival. States and won numerous awards, Grooms has also taught in Lynchburg and Shelbyville, TN, and including best performance from Indianapolis Star (1993); the has served as an assistant director to the Franklin High School Copland Piano Concerto Competition at Indiana University Marching Band. (1990); and the Indianapolis Jazz Competition (1994). Grooms holds a number of professional affiliations, Gillespie has recorded with Arts Center Jazz Collective; including the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra David Baker; Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra; James Campbell; Association (President 2011-2013), American School Band Steve Davis; Steve Houghton; Everett Greene; Sylvia McNair; Directors Association (Southeast Region V Representative Dominic Spera; the Aebersold Jazz Play-Along, Vol. 76 (“How to the National Executive Board 2012-2014), the National to Learn Tunes”); a solo jazz piano CD, “Footprints” (RIAX Association for Music Education, National Bandmasters Records), and trio CDs, “Live at the Station” and “Third Base Association and Phi Beta Mu. Grooms performs with the Line” (Watercourse Records). He has performed with Jamey Nashville Wind Ensemble on flute and has also performed Aebersold, Eric Alexander, Ralph Bowen, Benny Golson, with the Nashville Flute Ensemble, Tennessee Valley Winds Wycliffe Gordon, Jimmy Heath, Ingrid Jensen, Pat LaBarbera, (Murfreesboro Community Band), and the Nashville Symphony David Liebman, James Moody, Ed Neumeister, Chris Potter, Chorus and Chamber Chorus. 11 CYNTHIA HAWKINS coach. Howell holds a Bachelor of Administration in Business Middle School/Young Teacher Management degree and an Accounting minor from Academy the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Science in Cyndee Hawkins serves as band Education degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. director at Jessie Clark Middle School He is a visual designer and has taught and written shows and Stonewall Elementary School in for various nationally acclaimed marching bands, drum and Lexington, KY. She has taught in the bugle corps and indoor winter guards, and continues to Lafayette High School pyramid since conduct clinics and consultations for bands, winter guards 1987. Her previous teaching experience and judging associations across the United States. included band and orchestra positions in Virginia and Texas. He has been a visual adjudicator over 25 years and judges Hawkins has served on the staff of the Music For All Summer for BOA, DCI and various other judging associations, and has Symposium since 2010, teaching in the Young Directors/ had the opportunity to judge internationally on numerous Middle School Directors tracks. occasions. He currently is a member of the MENC Blue Ribbon A native of Wisconsin, Hawkins received a BME from Committee writing marching band curriculum standards. James Madison University and an MM from Morehead Howell also conducts both the Trinity Hand Bell and Hand State University. Hawkins was honored as the Phi Beta Mu Chime choirs at his church, in which he has performed for Outstanding Kentucky Bandmaster in 2007. She has been over 35 years. named a Middle School Teacher of the Year by her colleagues in KMEA District 7/11. CHARLES JACKSON She lives in Lexington with her husband, Ben. They have Middle School/Young Teacher two sons, Jay, 21 (tuba & guitar) and Turner, 18 (bassoon & Academy tuba), both of whom are current members of the Madison Dr. Charles R. Jackson begins his new Scouts. position as Part-Time Assistant Professor with the Kennesaw State University STEVE HOUGHTON School of Music in the fall of 2013. National Percussion Symposium Jackson served the past 15 years as Featured Clinician Director of Bands at Dodgen Middle Sponsored in part by Yamaha School in Cobb County, Georgia, and has completed his 34th Corporation of America, Vic Firth, year as a music educator. He has served as guest conductor Zildjian and Remo for the Atlanta Youth Wind Symphony at Emory University; Internationally renowned jazz drummer, the Cobb Wind Symphony in Marietta, Georgia; guest percussionist, clinician, author and clinician/conductor for the Atlanta Trumpet Festival at Emory educator, Steve Houghton initially University; and serves on the advisory board for the National received acclaim at age twenty as the drummer with Woody Brass Symposium. Jackson remains active as a trumpet Herman’s Young Thundering Herd. Since then he has shared performer and as a guest conductor/clinician for middle stage and studio with luminaries Freddie Hubbard, Gary school, high school and honor bands in the greater Atlanta Burton, Clay Jenkins, Shelly Berg, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Les Hooper, area. He holds degrees from the University of Southern Bob Florence, Bob Sheppard, Billy Childs, Bobby Hutcherson, Mississippi (B.M.Ed.), the University of Illinois at Urbana- Pat LaBarbara, Bill Cunliffe, Steve Allee and Joe Henderson. Champaign (M.S.), Georgia State University (Ed. S.) and the Houghton’s partial discography as leader includes: “The Shenandoah Conservatory (D.M.A.). Manne We Love: Gershwin Revisited” (TNC), a collection of John Williams’ charts for big band and quintet, the “Steve NATHAN JENNINGS Houghton Quintet Live at the Senator” (Jazz Compass), Color Guard “Remembrances” (Warner Bros.), and “Steve Houghton Nathan Jennings’s presence the past 18 Signature” (MesaBluemoon). years in the world of pageantry arts has As an author, Houghton’s publications boast more than lead him to a great appreciation and thirty educational books and DVDs. His most recent project, understanding for color guard and music. “Rhythm Section Workshop for Jazz Directors” (Alfred), is a Jennings has performed with many DVD-book series that addresses the entire rhythm section. world class units such as The Cadets Houghton is currently Professor of Percussion and Jazz Drum and Bugle Corps in 2002, The Pride at Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Houghton of Cincinnati winter guard 2002 through 2008, Onyx winter is the Immediate Past- President of the Percussive Arts guard in 2001 and Aimachi winter guard from Nagoya, Japan, Society (PAS) and endorses Yamaha drums and percussion, in 2009. Zildjian cymbals, Vic Firth sticks and mallets, and Remo world Nathan is excited to be back for his sixth summer at the percussion products and drumheads. MFA Summer Symposium. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia, and is a color guard instructor, choreographer and JOHN HOWELL designer with Lassiter High School. He also lends his passion Directors’ Academy and knowledge to other high schools and independent units John Howell resides in North within the Atlanta area. Nathan looks forward to sharing his Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, just outside views and personal experiences with those who also have a of Pittsburgh. He is currently employed passion for the activity and music. as a Business Education Teacher in the Hempfield Area School District, where he teaches Sports and Entertainment Marketing, Web Page Design and Video Game Programming. He also is the varsity boys’ volleyball 12 JENNIFER JOHNSON The Virginia Music Educators Conference, and at several Jazz Band universities throughout the country. He has served as Artist Jennifer Johnson graduated from Butler in Residence for the Indiana University Summer Percussion University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts Workshop/Academy, as the coordinator of the University of in trumpet performance and a jazz minor. Maryland Summer Percussion Workshop, and has recently There she received the Most Valuable been appointed artist in residence at the Sewanee Summer Player in Jazz Award, as well as the Music Festival. Indianapolis Jazz Foundation Scholarship Kilkenny received his bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard for 2007. Since then, Johnson has School and a master’s degree from Temple University. John worked as a freelance musician, and as a musician for several Kilkenny is a Yamaha Performing Artist and proud sponsor cruise companies, including Royal Caribbean, Norwegian of other leading music industry members such as Vic Firth and Princess Cruises. She taught trumpet privately and was mallets and Remo drumheads. the trumpet counselor for seven years at the Strings and Jazzy Things Summer Camp at Broad Ripple High School. In CHAD KOHLER 2012, Johnson completed her master’s degree at Ball State Marching Band University, and is continuing there with a doctorate degree. Sponsored in part by Yamaha She currently works as the graduate assistant for the Jazz Corporation of America and Vic Firth Department, rehearsing a big band and combo, teaching Chad Kohler is the Assistant Band Director lessons, and organizing the annual Dimensions is Jazz Festival. and Percussion Director at Fishers High Johnson has studied with Mark Buselli, Allen Miller, Amy School in Fishers, Indiana. Kohler holds Rempel and Paul Everett, and has taken lessons with Scott a music education degree from the Belck, Lennie Foy and Vince DiMartino. University of Kentucky and a Masters of Music from the University of Akron. SAMMY KESTENHOLTZ Kohler’s percussion ensembles have been named the Jazz Band – Drums Indiana Percussion Association State Champion (Concert Sponsored in part by Yamaha World Class) in 2010, 2011 and 2013, WGI Indianapolis Corporation of America, Vic Firth, Regional Champion and WGI World Championship finalist in Zildjian and Remo World Movement. The Fishers drumline has performed in the Grammy nominee and six time Down Indiana All State Marching Band and was featured during the Beat award winner Sammy K is a musician XLVI Bridgestone SuperBowl Halftime show with Madonna. and educator based in Los Angeles. His In addition to directing the marching band, concert bands credits include: Bob Hope, Alan Paul and percussion ensemble at Fishers, Kohler arranges music (Manhattan Transfer), Tony Winner Levi Kreis, Lucy Lawless, and writes drill for winter percussion groups throughout the Burt Bacharach, Michael Orland (American Idol), The United Midwest. States Air Force Band of Flight and Engelbert Humperdinck. Kohler serves on the Board of Director for Indiana TV/radio/film credits include: Wayne Brady Show, Ally McBeal Percussion Association and the Indiana Chapter of Percussive (with KC & The Sunshine Band/Josh Groban/Vonda Shepard), Arts. He is blessed to be a Yamaha Performing Artist and Burt The Conqueror, Southern California Thrills, Unsung clinician and Educational Artist for Vic Firth. Kohler previously Heroes on CMT, The Christopher Gabriel Program, “The Fast served as the Percussion Director for Lawrence Central High and the Furious” and “The Spaces In Between: On The Road School in Indianapolis. In addition, Kohler marched and With Amy Cook,” the Walt Disney Company, Ferrari, NBC, the instructed with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps as as well Hal Leonard Publishing Company, Much Music Television, the served as the Percussion Caption Head for the Blue Stars. Six Flags Corporation, Daimler-Chrysler, ABC, International Toys for Tots campaign and CBS. CHRISTOPHER KREKE Sammy is an artist with Remo Inc., Zildjian Cymbals, Yamaha Marching Band Drums and Vic Firth Sticks. Christopher T. Kreke is currently in his nineteenth year as Associate Director of JOHN KILKENNY Bands at Carmel High School. He is co- National Percussion Symposium conductor of the CHS Wind Symphony Sponsored in part by Yamaha II, III, IV and Freshman Concert Bands Corporation of America, Vic Firth and and also conducts Jazz Ensemble II Remo and athletic bands. Kreke is the Head John Kilkenny is currently Director of Director of the Carmel High School Marching Band. The Percussion at George Mason University’s Marching Greyhounds have been a Bands of America National School of Music. He enjoys a multi- Championship Finalist since 1996 and were named the BOA faceted career that includes orchestral Grand National Champions in 2005 and 2012. The Marching performances with the National Symphony, Washington Greyhounds have performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day National Opera and Ballet, Washington Concert Opera, parade, the London New Years Day parade, the Fiesta Bowl, Cathedral Choral Society, Washington Chorus, Choral Arts the Orange Bowl, and have completed performance tours in Society, the Master Choral of Washington and virtually every Hawaii, New York City, Amsterdam, Vienna and Salzburg. They other Washington, D.C. area performing arts organization. will participate in the Tournament of Roses Parade on January Sought after as a clinician and guest conductor, Kilkenny 1, 2014. has appeared at the Sewanee Summer Music Festival, Juilliard Kreke is also the drill designer/visual coordinator for several Summer Percussion Academy, John Philip Sousa Foundation marching groups around the United States and is available as National High School Honor Band, the Music for All Summer a drill designer, visual clinician and music technology clinician Symposium, Western International Band Conference, through Dynamic Marching, LLC (dynamicmarching.com). 13 Kreke received his bachelor’s degree in music education JAY LOGAN from Ball State University and his master’s degree in music Color Guard technology from Indiana University. He lives in Fishers, IN, with Jay Logan is excited to be returning to his sons Alex, Andrew and Aedan. the summer symposium for his 13th year. Mr. Logan lives in Cincinnati, Ohio, JORDAN LALAMA where he is the designer, choreographer Marching Band – Visual and instructor for Milford High School. Jordan Lalama is a national clinician for Milford is a BOA semi-finalist and the the Dynamic Marching machine. He is an 2011 bronze medalist for WGI. He is also alumnus of Carmel High School in Carmel, the color guard director, designer and choreographer for the IN. Lalama has extensive experience Kentucky State runner-up Grant County High School. Logan teaching in Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee, was a member of the Pride of Cincinnati Winter Guard in 2001 Texas, Arkansas, Kentucky and Missouri. and 2002, and a Pride board member for eight years. Logan is In addition to his high school experience, also the owner and designer of Greenspace Garden Design in he has worked as the Visual Caption Head of The Music City Cincinnati. Drum and Bugle Corps and Visual Staff at The Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps. This is his second year on the visual staff of NORMAN A. LOGAN the Music for All Summer Symposium. He also loves Snickers Leadership Weekend Experience if anyone is looking to buy gifts. Lalama currently resides in Norman A. Logan served 34 years as Brentwood, TN. an instrumental music teacher. He was the director of Instrumental Music at SCOTT LANG Farmington High School in Michigan, Leadership Weekend Experience where he taught band, orchestra, For almost a decade, Scott Lang has been marching band, jazz ensemble, music educating and entertaining student and theory and auditorium technology. His adult audiences of all ages through his previous teaching experience includes Taylor Public Schools, workshops and keynote presentations. Wayne-Westland Public Schools at John Glenn High School As a nationally known leadership trainer and quest lecturer and instructor for Band Methods and Band for the past seven years, Scott works Arranging at Eastern Michigan University. Logan was honored with some of America’s top ensembles with the City of Wayne’s Jaycees Outstanding Young Educator and conducts over 100 workshops annually. He is a G.I.A. Award; Teacher of the Year at John Glenn High School In sponsored clinician and is the author of Leadership Success, Westland, Michigan; Honorable Mention in USA Today for Leadership Travel Guide, and Leadership Survival Guide. “All-USA Teacher Teams 1999”; Michigan School Band and Orchestra District 4 Band Teacher of the Year; and placement STEPHANIE LEE in the Farmington Public Schools Teacher Hall of Fame. Logan Drum Major Institute is currently the conductor for the Orchard Lake Philharmonic Stephanie Lee just completed her first Orchestra in Farmington. Logan has been working with the year as Associate Director of Bands Summer Symposium for over 25 years. at Vandegrift High School in Austin, Texas. At Vandegrift, she is Director of JOHN LYNCH the Concert I Band and assists with the Concert Band, Conductor Marching Band. Lee previously taught Dr. John Lynch is the Director of Bands for two years at Canyon Ridge Middle at The University of Georgia, where School, where she taught the Concert Band, beginning he guides all aspects of the band and trumpet, trombone and horn classes, and established several graduate and wind conducting programs. new programs, including the Composition Club, Eagle Brass Previous positions include those at Quintet, and the CRMS Jazz Band. the University of Kansas, Northwestern Lee graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University University, and Emory University, as well of North Texas in 2010. While at North Texas, Lee served as as the Northshore Concert Band and Atlanta Youth Wind Drum Major of the Green Brigade Marching Band for 3 years Symphony. Lynch holds degrees from Indiana University, and performed in the Wind Symphony under the direction of Eastman and CCM. Eugene Migliaro Corporon. He has conducted throughout North America, South An active participant in Drum Corps International, Lee America, Europe and Asia and has performed at the national marched from 2007-2009 with the Santa Clara Vanguard conferences of CBDNA, ABA, MENC, The Midwest Clinic, and Drum and Bugle Corps, serving as Drum Major during the at Interlochen. Recent conducting engagements include 2008 and 2009 seasons. She remains the only female Head the West Point Band, the Army Field Band, the United States Drum Major in the 46-year history of Santa Clara Vanguard. Marine Band, and invited tours of Argentina, France and In 2009, she was the recipient of the Jim Jones Leadership Switzerland with the UGA Wind Ensemble. Lynch has three Award, which is given annually to one world class drum major recordings on the Naxos label and is a published composer by the DCI Hall of Fame. with C. Alan. He is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association, and the recent recipient of The JONATHAN LESLIE American Prize and UGA’s Creative Research Medal. National Percussion Symposium

14 MATTHEW LYON Education from Oklahoma State University. Among other Concert Band – Tuba/Euphonium music industry endorsements, he is a Yamaha performing Matthew Lyon is the recently appointed artist. Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at Ball State University. Previously the DAVID MCGRATH Instructor of Low Brass at the University Directors’ Academy of Windsor and the Flint Institute of Currently Director of Bands at Kennesaw Music, Professor Lyon is a graduate of Mountain High School in Kennesaw, DePaul University, the University of GA, David J. McGrath has directed high Michigan, and the Interlochen Arts Academy. He was Principal school bands for over twenty years in Tubist of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago for two seasons and both the states of Michigan and Georgia. has substituted with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, the He holds a BA from DePauw University Grant Park Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Symphony and an MA from Eastern Michigan Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Fort University. Bands under his direction have received numerous Wayne Philharmonic and the New World Symphony. In 2012, honors which include: appearances at the Michigan state Lyon was selected as a guest artist for the 2012 International marching band championships (capturing nine state Tuba/Euphonium Conference in Austria, the Army Band Tuba/ championships); being consistent finalists at Bands of America Euphonium Conference in Washington, D.C., and performed events (the Plymouth-Canton Educational Park Marching solos with the Interlochen Arts Academy Band, the Ball State Band was named the 1999 Bands of America Grand National Wind Ensemble and the Ball State Symphony Orchestra. His Champion); invitations and performances for numerous principal teachers include Floyd Cooley, Gene Pokorny, Warren regional and national concert festivals and clinics (including Deck, Wesley Jacobs, Fritz Kaenzig and Thomas Riccobono. the Music for All National Concert Band Festival), and performing a concert for President Bill Clinton (1996). BETH MAY McGrath is a four-time recipient of the National Band Color Guard Association Citation of Excellence and has been named a Beth May is an Instructional Coach at Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction. A member of the GMEA Avon High School in Avon, IN. Prior to and the MENC, he is very active as a concert band, marching becoming an Instructional Coach, May band and drum corps adjudicator and clinician. taught mathematics at the middle school and high school level. She has had the JOHN MLYNCZAK pleasure of teaching color guard at Directors’ Academy Sponsor Track Center Grove High School (2010), Avon Sponsored in part by The Woodwind & High School (2004-2008), Jenison High School (1998-2003) Brasswind and Interplay Winter Guard (2002-2004). May performed with John Mlynczak offers a broad range the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps (1997-2001), Interplay of experiences in music education. Winter Guard (1995-2001) and Hudsonville High School Mlynczak is the Education Market Marching Band (1994-1997). This is her fifth year on the color Manager for PreSonus Audio and guard faculty at the Music for All Summer Symposium. provides music education technology professional development and training resources for THOMAS MCGILLEN educators. He taught music and music technology at both National Percussion Symposium the elementary and secondary levels, is an active performer, Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of maintains a steady clinician schedule in music technology, America and is Chairman of the Marketing and Communications Thomas McGillen is a freelance Committee for the Technology Institute for Music Educators. percussion instructor in the Tulsa, He also serves as Chairman of the Creative Arts Assessment Oklahoma, area. He serves as an Committee for the Louisiana Department of Education. adjunct Professor of Percussion at the Mlynczak lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana with his wife, Nicole. University of Tulsa, where he teaches applied percussion lessons, percussion ensemble, percussion BARRY MORGAN methods, marching band methods, and arranges and Directors’ Academy instructs for the University of Tulsa Marching Band. From 2001 Barry Morgan is currently serving his to 2011, McGillen served as the Percussion Specialist for the fourth term as Solicitor General of the Broken Arrow Public Schools and Percussion Arranger for the State Court of Cobb County. Governor Pride of Broken Arrow marching band. During his tenure at Zell Miller appointed Morgan Solicitor Broken Arrow, the ensemble was a consistent BOA Regional General in March of 1998. Before Champion and BOA Grand National Finalist, winning the 2006 becoming a prosecutor, Morgan served Grand National Championship and placing runner up in 2010. twelve years as a high school, middle McGillen has an active arranging and consulting school and elementary school band director with the Cobb schedule for numerous high schools and other groups County Georgia School District. Barry holds a Bachelor of across the country, specializing in electronics, amplification, Music degree from Georgia State University and a Doctor of technology implementation and overall percussion design. Jurisprudence Summa Cum Laude from the John Marshall Law He has worked with the Music City Mystique and Gateway School in Atlanta, Georgia. A founding staff member of the Independent WGI World Class Indoor Percussion Ensembles Spirit of Atlanta Drum & Bugle Corps, Morgan has remained as well as The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. active in the Drum Corps community as an instructor and McGillen received a Master of Music in Percussion fan and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Carolina Pedagogy and Performance and a Bachelor of Music Crown. Morgan continues to serve the music community 15 as a lecturer on Legal Responsibilities of Music Teachers for history. Murphy is in great demand as an international soloist Bands of America, GMEA and the 59th and the 63rd Annual and clinician in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic. As the circle has come to He has performed in some of the great concert halls of the be complete, Morgan currently serves as co-president of the world including the Strathmore in Washington, D. C.; Opera band booster club at Allatoona High School. City Concert Hall in Tokyo; and Palacio Euskalduna in Spain, among many others. He has presented saxophone classes BRITTANY MORI at prestigious music schools and festivals throughout the Marching Band – Clarinet world including the Amsterdam Conservatory, Madrid Brittany Mori received her Bachelor Royal Conservatory, Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, of Music degree from James Madison Osaka College of Music, Sydney Conservatorium and many University and currently teaches at more. Murphy holds Doctor of Music and Master of Music Awtrey Middle School in Kennesaw, GA, degrees from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, part of the Cobb County School District. graduating with the Performer’s Certificate, the highest honor Prior to Awtrey, she was an Assistant given to a performer at this institution. Under a Fulbright Band Director at McEachern High School Fellowship for foreign study at the Conservatoire National in Powder Springs, GA. Mori has been a woodwind clinician Régional de Musique in Cergy-Pontoise, France, Murphy for the Music for All Summer Symposium’s Marching Band earned the Prix de Perfectionnement by a unanimous decision Track from 2010-2011 and volunteered at the Symposium of the jury. His saxophone teachers include Jean-Yves from 2007-2009 as a member of “Team SWAG.” She is currently Fourmeau, Eugene Rousseau and Kenneth Fischer. on staff with the Allatoona High School Marching Band in Acworth, GA, and continues to serve as a woodwind clinician TONY NUNEZ around the district. Mori has also performed as a clarinetist Featured Clinician, National with the Cobb Wind Symphony, including their 2011 Percussion Symposium performance at The Midwest Clinic. Sponsored in part by Yamaha While at JMU, Mori performed as principal clarinetist with Corporation of America and Vic Firth the JMU Wind Symphony and Symphony Orchestra. She also Tony Nunez is a marching percussion served as Drum Major of the JMU Marching Royal Dukes, and sound design specialist living in including their televised performance in the 2008 Macy’s Southern California. He is the percussion Thanksgiving Day Parade. arranger and visual designer at South Mori currently resides in Kennesaw, GA, with her husband, Hills H.S. and the battery arranger and visual designer at Koji. Her professional affiliations include the National Arcadia H.S. Nunez also serves as a sound designer at Music Association for Music Education, Georgia Music Educators City Mystique, Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, Association and Tau Beta Sigma. Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, and is the percussion arranger for Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps. He also serves KOJI MORI as a music consultant, arranger and sound designer for many Drum Major Institute high school and independent ensembles in the United States Koji Mori currently serves as the Assistant and France. Band Director at Daniell Middle School Tony is a former tenor line member of the Santa Clara in the Cobb County School District of Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps, Riverside Community Marietta, GA. Mori received his bachelor’s College Indoor Drum Line, Patriots Drum and Bugle Corps in Music Education from Columbus and Black Knights Indoor Percussion. He is a member of the State University and was a member of WGI Percussion Advisory Board, the Vic Firth Education Team, the Phantom Regiment Drum & Bugle and is an Apple Certified Master Pro in Logic Studio. Corps for the 2008 & 2009 seasons. In 2008, he was named Tony proudly endorses a number of leading music industry Assistant Conductor of the Phantom Regiment and helped members including Yamaha and Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets. the corps achieve its first stand-alone world championship For an in-depth bio, please visit projectrisemusic.com or title. He was named Principal Conductor of the Phantom cutpastelab.com Regiment in 2009 and had the opportunity of conducting a joint venture between the Phantom Regiment and the JOHN PHILLIPS internationally renown brass quintet, the Boston Brass. In the Directors’ Academy summer of 2010, Mori was selected as a conducting fellow John Phillips teaches in both the at the University of South Carolina’s Conductors Institute, Faculty of Music and of Education at working with professional musicians and conducting an array the University of Western Ontario. He of orchestral literature for string, chamber and symphony served as the Arts Curriculum Supervisor orchestra. He is an active adjudicator and clinician for high at the Ministry of Education for Ontario school, university and drum corps drum majors throughout and Principal of music teacher training the Southeast. programs at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. OTIS MURPHY Phillips is in demand as an expert on marching music Concert Band – Saxophone education. He was a member of the NAfME Blue Ribbon Panel Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of on marching music standards and serves as chair of the DCI America Marching Music Academy. In 2010, he received the MENC Otis Murphy is currently Professor of award for Excellence in Marching Music Education. Music at Indiana University Jacobs Phillips has contributed articles to numerous scholarly School of Music, where he joined the journals, including a composition analysis for volume eight faculty at the age of 28, becoming one of the highly acclaimed series Teaching Music Through of the youngest faculty members in its Performance in Band, published by GIA. He is active as 16 an adjudicator and clinician around the world, including Music Educator scholar and also received Ball State Japan, Malaysia, Europe, South America and North America. University’s distinguished Loudenback Outstanding Future Phillips has been the Judge Administrator for Drum Corps Educator scholarship. Many of his former students enjoy International for the past twelve years. successful careers in music. Outside of his music endeavors, Mr. Powell enjoys spending time with his family. JOSEPH PISANO Middle School/Young Teacher RICARDO ROBINSON Academy Color Guard Joseph M. Pisano is currently the Director Ricardo Robinson lives in St. Petersburg, of Bands and a full professor of music in FL, where he is the Color Guard Director the School of Arts and Letters at Grove at Braden River High School (FMBC Class City College in Grove City, PA. He holds a 3A State Champion 2012) and works at Ph.D. in Music Education with a Doctoral Haile Middle School in the Exceptional Minor in Instructional Technology from Student Education Department. He also Kent State University and a master’s degree in Instrumental works for Marching Show Concepts as Conducting from the S.U.N.Y Binghamton. In addition to his a color guard choreographer, is on staff for the USF Winter professorship at Grove City, he is the National Vice President of Guards, and is on the color guard design team for the Grand the Technology Institute for Music Educators (TI:ME), and he Banda Medellin in Medellin, Colombia. Originally from also develops iOS applications as the Chief Operating Officer Mississippi, Robinson attended the University of Southern for A.P.S. Development LLC. Mississippi and was both Color Guard Captain/Coordinator Dr. Pisano is widely published and serves as an educational and Drum Major for the Pride of MS Marching Band. writer and editor for InTune Monthly magazine, a series editor Ricardo has numerous choreography, design and for Oxford University Press, and is a member of the U.S. consultation credits throughout the Southeast, and he is Educational Advisory Panel for the Music Sales Group. He an active member of the Gulf Coast Judges Association. He also maintains and contributes to many websites including has served on the Music for All Summer Symposium color MusTech.Net and the Facebook Music Teachers’ Group. guard staff since 2003. In addition to color guard and band, Robinson is an active show choir, musical theatre and dance TOM POMPEI company choreographer and director. His performance Leadership Weekend Experience credits include the Spirit of Atlanta Drum and Bugle Corps Tom Pompei is a Two Star Junior 1998, Optemystic Independent Winter Guard (1999-2003), Instructor with Parelli Natural eMenience Indoor Percussion Theatre (2004), and the 2001 Horsemanship. While currently a band DCI World Champion the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. director with 22 years of experience, Pompei studies Natural Horsemanship, ED ROUSH spending his summers studying Marching Band – Mellophone at the Parelli Ranch in Colorado to Ed Roush is currently director of bands at Pomona High become a Licensed Parelli Professional. There is an obvious School. During his years there, the program has received connection to leadership qualities and working around numerous state, national and international honors. During horses. Natural horse training avoids using force, fear, harsh this time, the program has won 11 state marching band bits or mechanical training aids in favor of love, language and titles, performed at the Summit of the Eight World Economic leadership, or, said another way: relationship, communication Conference, been selected to perform at two Rose Bowl and trustworthiness... the exact qualities we see in effective Parades as well as two London New Year’s Day Parades leadership. and finished in 5th place at the 1996 Bands of America Grand National Championship. He has served as a clinician JOEL POWELL at the Music for All Summer Symposium for the last eight Strings – Viola summers, and has also been on staff with the Cavaliers and Joel A. Powell is an Indiana violinist and the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. While pursuing his violist and an orchestra director at Avon degree in music education, Roush has attended Illinois State Community Schools, one of the top University, Metropolitan State College of Denver and the music programs in the country. Powell University of Northern Colorado. has also served as the Goshen Middle School orchestra director and assistant JEFF RUPERT orchestra director at Goshen High School, Jazz Band – Saxophone one of the top music programs in the state of Indiana. He Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of is highly sought after as a clinician, and his orchestras and America private students consistently earn top prizes at major contests Tenor Saxophonist Jeff Rupert is a and festivals. Yamaha performing artist, full professor Powell was a scholarship pupil at the Jascha Heifetz and Director of Jazz Studies at the Institute for the Development of Personal Style. He has University of Central Florida (UCF) and the performed with the Muncie Symphony Orchestra, Elkhart founder of Flying Horse Records. Personal County Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony recording credits include dates with Diane Schuur, Mel Torme, Orchestra and East Central Indiana Chamber Orchestra, Benny Carter’s Grammy winning Harlem Renaissance, Sam and has served as associate concertmaster of the Ball State Rivers, Maynard Ferguson, Kevin Mahogany and Ernestine Symphony Orchestra. Anderson, plus four quartet recordings, all charting on In 2007, Powell received the prestigious honor of being JazzWeek. Performance venues include the Blue Note, named the Ball State University Arthur D. Hill Outstanding Birdland, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Tokyo Forum. 17 Rupert founded The Jazz Professors, whose latest recording, level, Matt has served as percussion instructor for the USC Do That Again!, charted for twenty weeks and peaked at #6 on Trojan Marching Band and is currently Director of Marching JazzWeek. Percussion at the University of North Carolina, where he has Rupert has presented countless national clinics on jazz also served as Assistant Director of University Bands. education, including the Teacher Training institute for IAJE, the Savage is heavily involved with the indoor percussion Kennedy Center, and International presentations in Australia, activity as an adjudicator for WGI. Along with being a New Zealand, Japan and throughout Europe. marching percussion specialist, he is a Remo hand drum artist and drum circle facilitator, leading drum circles for a variety SCOTT RUSH of both local and national events. Savage is a clinician for the Directors’ Academy Yamaha Corporation of America, Remo Inc. and other leading Scott Rush is Director of Bands at Wando music industry members. High School in Mount Pleasant, SC. He is a graduate of the New England JASON SEBER Conservatory of Music in Boston, Strings – Violin Massachusetts. The Wando Symphonic Jason Seber is celebrating his eighth Band performed at the 2007 Midwest season as Music Director of the Louisville International Band and Orchestra Youth Orchestra. In October of 2010, the Clinic and were recipients of the 2007 Sudler Flag of Honor LYO Symphony Orchestra performed administered by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. The with My Morning Jacket at the KFC Yum Wando marching band was a finalist at the 2009 and Center. As a result of this collaboration, 2011 Bands of America Grand National Marching Band Seber and the Symphony Orchestra were Championships in Indianapolis. featured in the documentary One Big Holiday, which was Rush is active as a clinician and adjudicator throughout released in May 2011 with the box set of My Morning Jacket’s the United States. He is the author of three highly touted album, “Circuital.” Seber also provided string arrangements books, Habits of A Successful Band Director, Habits of A Successful for charts on Circuital, which was nominated for the 2012 Musician and The Evolution of A Successful Band Director for GIA Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album. In addition to his Publications. Rush is a member of the prestigious American position with the Louisville Youth Orchestra, Seber is also the Bandmasters Association and is currently on the board of the Director of Orchestras at the Youth Performing Arts School National Band Association. (YPAS), a magnet school for the performing arts in Louisville, KY. SERAFIN SANCHEZ Seber served as Assistant Conductor of the Cleveland Marching Band – Saxophone Pops Orchestra from 2005 to 2007 and still returns regularly Serafin Sanchez is a Denver, Colorado, to guest conduct. He also served as Assistant Conductor of based saxophonist, educator and the National Repertory Orchestra and the Cleveland Institute composer. Serafin is currently on of Music Orchestras, and he frequently guest conducts the faculty at The Art Institute of Colorado Louisville Orchestra. Seber has had the privilege of working in the Audio Production Program. He with Shoshana Bean, Michael Cavanaugh, Caroline Goulding, received his M.A. in Jazz Performance Christopher O’Riley, Conrad Tao and Joyce Yang. and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is an in-demand woodwind clinician JOHN SEIDEL and instructor and was part of 10 CBA State Marching Band Concert Band –Trombone Championships with Pomona High School. As a freelance John Seidel is Associate Professor of musician, Sanchez has performed with artists including Trombone Performance at Ball State Natalie Cole, James Carter, Bob Mintzer, The Fray and One University. At Ball State, Dr. Seidel’s duties Republic. Serafin has been a touring member of the Glenn are to teach applied trombone, direct the Miller Orchestra and has extensively toured the U.S., Canada, University Trombone Choir, and perform Japan and Peru. He is honored to be back for his third year at with Da Camera, the faculty Brass Quintet. the MFA Symmer Symposium as part of the Marching Band Seidel appears nationally as a track. trombone soloist and clinician. Recent appearances include the premiere performance of Jazzical No. 4 by Howard Buss MATT SAVAGE at the International Horn Symposium in Denton, Texas, Drum Circle Specialist and Leadership with colleagues Gene Berger, horn, Matthew Lyon, tuba; Weekend Experience and Liz Seidel, piano. Seidel also appears regularly with the Sponsored in part by Yamaha Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and serves as principal Corporation of America and Remo trombone of several symphony orchestras in the East Matt Savage, graduate of the Crane Central Indiana region including the Muncie Symphony, the School of Music in Potsdam, New Marion Philharmonic and the Kokomo Symphony. Seidel has York, and The University of Southern appeared with the Indianapolis Symphony and with the Fort California, has taught at every level of Wayne Philharmonic on numerous occasions. In addition, public education from elementary to the college level. Along he has served as Artist Faculty at the Bay View Festival in with teaching in public education, Matt also has twenty-five Petoskey, Michigan and at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin years of playing and teaching experience in the marching Lake, Michigan. percussion field. This experience includes playing snare Seidel received his Bachelor of Science degree from West drum with the legendary Bayonne Bridgemen and serving Chester State College, a Master of Music degree from Temple as percussion director and arranger for drum and bugle University and Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the corps such as the Anaheim Velvet Knights, the Dutchboy of University of North Texas. Kitchener, Ontario and the Canton Bluecoats. At the collegiate 18 KIM SHUTTLESWORTH marching band events. Her professional affiliations include Drum Major Institute Music Educators National Conference, Alabama Music Kim Shuttlesworth is currently the Educators Association, Sigma Alpha Iota, Phi Beta Kappa Director of Bands at James Bowie High and the National Band Association. Smith is in demand as a School. She has been working in the clinician, conductor and adjudicator throughout the country. Austin Independent School District for seven years teaching at both JAMES STEPHENS middle school and high school levels. Drum Major Institute Shuttlesworth holds a Bachelor of Music Marching Band – Clarinet Education Degree from The University of Texas at Austin. James Stephens is currently Associate While at Bowie, her wind ensembles have received Director of Bands in the Broken Arrow superior ratings at the UIL Concert & Sightreading Contest. Public Schools in Broken Arrow, The Outdoor Performing Ensemble has been a finalist in Oklahoma. While at Broken Arrow, the Bands of America Regional and Super Regional contests marching band has been a seven-time since 2007, and performed at Grand National Finals in 2006, national finalist at the Bands of America 2009 and 2012. She has most recently been a clinician for the Grand National Championships, was named the 2006 and Texas Bandmasters Association Annual Convention teaching 2011 Grand National Champion and was presented with the marching band concepts. prestigious Sudler Shield of Excellence by the John Philip Shuttlesworth has volunteered for the Music for All Sousa Foundation. Stephens has also taught at schools in National Concert Band Festival since 2006. She has worked New York and Ohio. Bands under Stephens’ direction have with summer programs over the past ten years including the performed in venues across the country, consistently received Longhorn Music Camp, Music for All Summer Symposium superior ratings, and have been awarded numerous honors and the Sewanee Summer Music Festival. Shuttlesworth in concert and marching events. Stephens arranges music holds professional affiliations with the Texas Music Educators and consults for many high school band programs in the Association, Texas Bandmasters Association and Tau Beta United States and Canada. He received his Bachelor of Music Sigma. Degree from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His voice has been heard as announcer at Drum Corps Midwest, DEREK SMITH Winter Guard International and Bands of America events. As a Color Guard professional videographer and editor, Stephens has produced Derek Smith is a Chemistry and Forensic numerous commercials, documentaries and video montages Science Teacher at Northview High for a variety of events. Stephens is a member of the National School in Grand Rapids, MI. He holds Association for Music Education, Northeastern Band Directors a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry and a Association, Oklahoma Bandmasters Association, Kappa M.Ed. Degree in Educational Technology. Kappa Psi and Oklahoma Music Education Association. He is a widely respected adjudicator, designer, instructor and clinician for BUZZ SUTHERLAND marching bands and winter guards across Michigan and the Leadership Weekend Experience, Midwest. Derek has been the director and designer of the Featured Speaker 16-time WGI Finalist Interplay Winter Guard since 1997. He Buzz Sutherland is a man who is sincerely was also inducted into the Michigan Color Guard Circuit Hall and seriously committed to entertaining of Fame in 2009 and is thrilled to be back at the MFA Summer audiences with humor that is 100% clean Symposium for a 14th year. and 200% funny. Whether delivering his hysterical comedy show or his popular SUSAN SMITH keynote, “It’s All About Family,” his Directors’ Academy, Middle School/ smooth blend of homespun characters and outrageous facial Young Teacher Academy expressions keep audiences rolling with laughter. Buzz’s style Susan L. Smith has taught at all levels of comedy is contagious, as he plays with the audience rather of education and in many facets. than talking at them. Some of the audience members literally After completing her degree in Music become part of the show! Having performed for many of the Education from James Madison top corporations and associations in the world, Buzz’s ability University, she taught in the Virginia to be funny without being offensive make him a no-brainer public schools. Her responsibilities for any event. included the direction of elementary and secondary instrumental music programs as well as teaching other arts- VINCENT THOMAS related courses. Her ensembles consistently received superior Color Guard ratings from the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Vincent E. Thomas, dancer, Association festivals during her tenure. choreographer and teacher, received After completing her master’s degree in Education from his MFA in Dance from Florida State Troy State University, she taught as an Adjunct Professor of University and a BME in Music from the Music. While at TSU, she also served as the Executive Director University of South Carolina. Thomas has of the Southeastern United States Concert Band Clinic and danced with Dance Repertory Theatre Honor Bands. In addition, she coordinated the visual program (FSU), Randy James Dance Works (NY/ for the Sound of the South Marching Band. NJ), EDGEWORKS Dance Theater (DC), and Liz Lerman Dance Currently, Smith is Director of Bands at the Saint James Exchange (MD). His choreography has been presented at School in Montgomery, AL. The Saint James Bands various national and international venues in the U.S., Spain, consistently receive Superior ratings in concert, jazz and Scotland, France, Greece and Italy. He was selected as one of 19 eleven choreographers from around the world to convene and the Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps. Jeremy is a graduate for the 2005 Omi International Dance Collective. Thomas is a of Salve Regina University in Newport, RI, where he studied recipient of a multitude of awards, including several Maryland Administration of Justice and Cyber Intelligence. State Arts Council Individual Artist Dance Awards, a 2008 Kennedy Center Local Dance Commission Project Award, two AARON VOGEL 2006 Metro DC Dance Awards for Emerging Choreographer, Marching Band – Tuba and the 2011-2012 Towson University Student Government Aaron Vogel is the Assistant Director of Bands at Fossil Ridge Association Faculty Member of the Year, among other High School, where he conducts the Select Symphonic Band recognitions. Thomas is a 2012-13 American Dance Institute and Jazz Ensemble II, teaches courses on Music Production Incubator Artist (MD), an Urban Bush Women BOLD Facilitator, and Technology, and assists with the Wind Symphony, co-artistic director of the UBW Summer Institutes (NY), and an Concert Band and Marching Band. He received a Bachelor of Associate Professor of Dance at Towson University (MD). He is Music in Music Education from Ithaca College and a master’s also the founder of VTDance, a multi-dimensional outlet for in Music Education and Wind Conducting from the University performance projects including solo, group and collaborative of Colorado at Boulder, where he studied conducting and choreographic endeavors. was a Graduate Teaching Assistant. Vogel’s concert ensembles have received accolades for excellence in performance with RAMON VASQUEZ recent performances at the Music for All National Concert Marching Band – Trumpet Band Festival, the Colorado Music Educators Conference and the Western International Band Clinic. Vogel’s marching GLEN VELEZ ensembles have earned five consecutive trips as Finalists Featured Clinician, National to the Colorado State Marching Band Competition. Vogel is Percussion Symposium entering his second year on the brass staff for the seven-time “A galaxy of timbres and inflections ... DCI World Champion The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps. As remarkable rhythmic fireworks” (the a performer, Vogel was an original cast member in the Tony New York Times). A four-time Grammy and Emmy award-winning production of Blast! in London’s Award winner, Glen Velez is the West End and a marching member of the Crossmen Drum founding father of the modern Frame and Bugle Corps. Vogel lives in Ft. Collins and is a native of Drum movement and is regarded as a Cherry Hill, New Jersey. legendary figure among musicians and audiences world- wide. During his illustrious career, Velez has single-handedly SHAWN VONDRAN popularized this ancient drum for the modern world. His Concert Band virtuosic combinations of hand movements and finger Shawn D. Vondran is Assistant Director of techniques, along with his original compositional style - Bands and Assistant Professor of Music which incorporates stepping, drum language and Central Performance at Ball State University. Asian Overtone singing (split-tone singing) - has opened new His responsibilities at Ball State include possibilities for musicians around the globe. Velez is the first conducting the Symphony Band, percussionist to gain international recognition as a successful directing the “Pride of Mid-America” solo artist using frame drums. He is also a core member of Marching Band and teaching courses in TRIO GLOBO featuring Eugene Friesen and Howard Levy. Velez music education and conducting. Prior to his appointment is an adjunct professor at the Mannes School of Music in New at BSU, Vondran served as the Associate Director of Bands at York City and conducts regular master classes at the Juilliard Western Illinois University and Youngstown State University. School and Tanglewood Summer Music Program. Remo, with He began his professional teaching career at Mentor High a partner drum company, created an exclusive line of Glen School in Ohio, where his concert, jazz and marching Velez Signature Series Frame Drums, as well as Glen Velez bands consistently received superior ratings and accolades Signature Series Shakers with a company from Germany. For for their outstanding performances during his four-year more information, visit www.glenvelez.com. tenure. Vondran received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in instrumental conducting from the University of Miami, JEREMY VENTURA Florida. He holds a Master of Music degree in instrumental National Percussion Symposium conducting from Youngstown State University and earned Jeremy Ventura started drumming at his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Ohio State the age of nine. He attended Dartmouth University. High School in Dartmouth, MA, where he was an active member of the drumline. BRENT WALLARAB While in high school, Jeremy was part of Jazz Band – Trombone the award-winning indoor percussion Since 1991, Brent Wallarab has been ensemble where he captured two WGI lead trombonist with the Smithsonian Silver Medals (2006, 2007) and two WGI Gold Medals (2008, Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the jazz 2009). He was also awarded section leader in 2009. Jeremy orchestra in residence at the Smithsonian marched with the Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps in 2007 Institution’s Museum of American History (snare), winning a DCI Div II World Championship. His talents in Washington, D.C. As lead trombonist, led him to march the summer of 2010 with the Blue Stars he specializes in recreating the entire Drum and Bugle Corps (bass), where he ended his marching spectrum of jazz brass styles. In 1992, Wallarab was appointed career. specialist in jazz for the Smithsonian Institution and serves as Jeremy has taught at various high schools in the New transcriber, researcher, editor and advisor for the Smithsonian’s England area, including Dartmouth High School, King Philip extensive jazz program. High School, Mansfield High School, Plymouth High School He has transcribed and edited over 300 masterworks for 20 jazz orchestra and is considered one of the leading authorities TOM WEIDNER on historical composition for jazz orchestras such as those of Marching Band Duke Ellington, Sy Oliver, Fletcher Henderson and Gil Evans. Tom Weidner worked as a band director He has been instrumental in cataloguing and identifying for many years before turning his talents many pieces from the Ellington archives housed at the to an active schedule of arranging and Smithsonian Institution. composing music, writing drill design, Wallarab is currently an assistant professor of jazz studies at and serving as a widely respected the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. consultant. His groups have included national finalists, along with many MIHOKO WATANABE national semi-finalists and regional champions. Weidner is a Concert Band – Flute past President of the Michigan Competing Band Association Mihoko Watanabe, a native of Japan, and the Michigan Color Guard Circuit. He owns Marching is Associate Professor of Flute and a Band Music and Drill in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and is also member of the Musical Arts Quintet at the Product Coordinator for Marching Show Concepts and Ball State University. A celebrated and Center X Productions in Sarasota, Florida. versatile international flutist, she has won competitions and has appeared in Japan, MIKE WEST Israel, England and Canada as a recitalist, Drum Major Institute chamber musician and concerto soloist. She is the principal Mike West holds a bachelor’s degree in flute of the Muncie Symphony Orchestra and performs with Communication from the University of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. As a pedagogue, she Illinois, where he is currently finishing has given numerous master classes and has adjudicated his Master of Music Education degree. competitions throughout the United States, Canada and West has been heavily involved in athletic Japan. In 2005, she jointed the faculty of the Brevard Music bands for the past several years. He Center Festival. Dr. Watanabe published an article, “Essence of previously served as drum major of the Mei,” in the Flutist Quarterly of the National Flute Association Marching Illini before returning to the ensemble as a graduate in 2008, and it has since been translated into Dutch and assistant and Director of Media. During his time with the German for the Dutch Flute Association’s Fluit in 2011 and the university, he has written several shows for the Marching Illini. German Flute Association’s Flöte Aktuell in 2013. Watanabe West writes drill and arranges music with his business serves as the president of the Greater Indianapolis Flute Club, partner for high schools and universities, and for over ten and she is very active with the National Flute Association. She years has also served as clinician and on staff for several high graduated from University of Michigan, Eastman School of schools throughout Illinois. Music and Musashino Academia Musicae in Japan. While an undergraduate student, Mike originally pursued film as a career. He has developed many public relations ALFRED L. WATKINS materials (films, graphic design, and photos) for local music Directors’ Academy; Director, artists in Chicago as well as the Illinois Bands Program and Directors’ Concert Band Smith Walbridge Clinics. He has worked with the directors Mr. Alfred L. Watkins was Director of of both organizations to update and implement new media Bands at Lassiter High School in Marietta, campaigns. West also produced and developed the live GA, from 1982 until his retirement in streaming Illinois Band concerts and events. He continues 2013. He has established a fine reputation to create films and consult for music programs to develop, as an adjudicator, clinician and guest improve and increase their brand image and presence. conductor throughout the United States. Watkins has also served as Director of Bands at Murphy High JOSEPH WITKOWSKI School in the Atlanta Public Schools. Bands under Watkins’ Concert Band direction have performed at the Midwest Band Clinic, the Joseph Witkowski has just completed Music for All National Festival, the GMEA Convention, Bands his master’s degree in instrumental of America Marching Championships, and the Tournament conducting at Ball State University. of Roses, Orange Bowl and Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades. While at Ball State, Witkowski served as The Lassiter band program is one of only nine high school a graduate assistant with the university bands in America to have received both the Sudler Flag of concert, marching and athletic bands. Honor and Sudler Shield. Prior to graduate study, he taught middle Among other accolades, Watkins was selected as a and high school band in the Marion (Ohio) City Schools, member of the Florida A & M Gallery of Distinguished Alumni, where his students achieved recognition at local, state and the Music for All Hall of Fame, the American Bandmasters national events in concert and marching band. In addition Association and the Georgia Bandmasters Hall of Fame. to public school teaching, he collaborates with other music Watkins is Co-Founder, Conductor and Musical Director of educators and their programs and has maintained a studio the Cobb Wind Symphony, a community band based in the of private students studying low brass instruments. He Atlanta area, and he is currently the President for the Minority completed his bachelor’s degree in music education at The Band Directors National Association. He and his wife, Rita, live Ohio State University, where he studied tuba. Witkowski is in Marietta. an ardent advocate for arts education and has served on the board of directors of the Ohio Alliance for Arts Education and as the Advocacy Chairperson of the Ohio Music Education Association.

21 JOHN WITTMANN Directors’ Academy Sponsored by Yamaha Corporation of America John Wittmann is the Director of Education and Artist Relations for the Band and Orchestral Division of Yamaha Corporation of America. He is responsible for organizing the support for over 1000 woodwind, brass, string, percussion and drumset artists as well as running educational programs such as The Yamaha Young Performing Artists Competition. Wittmann has also served as Manager of the Percussion Department and produced the Living Legends Video Series for Yamaha. Wittmann holds a Bachelors and a Master of Arts Degree in Music Education concentrating in conducting, percussion and 20th Century composition. He has toured extensively throughout the United States and abroad and remains an active performer/clinician. He has lectured on career development in the music industry at various universities and conventions and is the 2007 recipient of the Percussive Arts Society’s President’s Industry Award. Previously, John has also taught in Indiana and New York. He was awarded Teacher of the Year at Waterford-Halfmoon High School and was recently named a Distinguished Alumni from the College of St. Rose. Wittmann is active in music ministry, serves on The Percussive Arts Society Board of Directors and The Dolce Suono Advisory Board, and is also active on the Support Music Coalition.

22 Directors Track Assistants The individuals who serve as Directors Teaching Assistants are active and successful music educators and professionals. They volunteer their service at the Music for All Summer Symposium, paying their own way in order to share their time and expertise to make sure that the Directors’ Academy sessions run smoothly and efficiently. They serve as a shining example of the spirit of volunteerism that is also exhibited by the SWAG Team who serve the camp students. Please take a moment to thank the Symposium Directors Teaching Assistants and SWAG Team members when you see them throughout the camp week.

JESSICA BURMINGHAM CECILIA CLARK SHELDON FRAZIER MELANIE GLAZER Director of Bands Director Track Assistant Associate Director Vocal Music Educator and Rivercrest H.S., AR Program Coordinator McEachern H.S., GA Color Guard Advisor Fine Arts Department Chair Indian Valley Local Schools, OH and Assistant Band Director, McEachern H.S., GA

ADRIAN HARTSOUGH JERELL HORTON CHRISTIAN F. HOWES CJ LONABAUGH Director of Bands Director of Bands Director of Engineering, Graduate Student Danville H.S., IN Vestavia Hills H.S., AL StarMaker Interactive University of Minnesota Freelance Percussion Artist San Francisco, CA

TREVOR OUSSEY JOSHUA RADECKE LANIE RADECKE PAUL TODD Director of Bands Music Educator Associate Director of Bands Retired Educator/Advisor/ Uvalde Jr. H.S., TX Charleston, SC Wando H.S., SC Administrator Columbus, OH

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TAYLOR WATTS JARED GREEN Associate Director of Bands Music Education Student Kell H.S., GA Ball State University, IN 23