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Robert Reck is active as a composer, arranger, educator, and performer in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He performs as a vocalist and instrumentalist in church and secular settings and in musical theater productions. He plays trombone and sings with the Tulsa Klezmer Band and freelances in jazz groups on bass guitar and string bass.
He began his musical career in Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he was All-State in choir in his junior year and All-State in band his Senior year. In between his junior and senior year he toured the USA and Europe with America's Youth in Concert, performing in Carnegie Hall, Royal Albert Hall, and the White House. Robert currently teaches middle school string orchestra in the Broken Arrow, Oklahoma schools. He directs the church orchestra and the brass ensemble at the Boston Avenue Methodist church in Tulsa, where his compositions and arrangements are frequently performed. He has served as President of the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association. |
| Rick DeJonge is a graduate of the Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program from USC and holds a Master's of Art and Bachelor's of Music from Western Michigan University. Rick has been writing music for orchestra and wind ensemble for over 20 years and for the Boston Brass the last 4 years. Many of Mr. DeJonge's symphonic works have been preformed at many music education conferences including the National MENC, Midwest Clinic, Ohio MEA, CBDA, Colorado MEA, Western MENC, Eastern MENC, South Carolina MEA, Georgia MEA, the American Bandmasters Association, and the Western International Band Clinic. Rick has had premieres with The Annapolis Symphony, Elkhart Symphony, New Jersey Pops Orchestra, Williamsport Symphony, Capital University, Indiana State University, California State Long Beach, and The Air Force Band of the Golden West. Rick worked with composers on television promos including shows like "Beautiful People", "Lost", "The West Wing" and "CSI Miami". As a conductor, Rick has conducted his own scores at Paramount Studios, Fox Studios, and Firehouse Studios in Pasadena, California. Currently living in Austin, Texas, DeJonge is one of the most sought after composers for original music for both film and video games in the area. DeJonge just finished recording the score for the action film "Fighting With Anger" with Executive Producer, Willie Nelson and has written two songs for the film that Willie Nelson recently recorded. Rick also composed the music and did the sound design for the current popular Nintendo DS game "Konductra" and is currently doing music and sound design for a new Nintendo Wii game developed by OEFun Inc. |  |
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Aaron Strang earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Instrumental Music Education from the University of Minnesota, Duluth in 1996. He composed shows for the high school drumline in Foley, Minnesota from 1998 - 2000, including their state championship show, Shenanigans. His piece Suite Dreams won the 2000 Minnesota Band Directors Association composition contest and was premiered that same year at the Minnesota State Music Convention. He is a trombonist and composer in the Big Time Jazz Orchestra based in Duluth, Minnesota, who recently recorded five of his works on their latest CD entitled Fanfare From Some Flounder? He currently lives with his wife and son in Webster, Wisconsin. |
| Drew Shanefield serves as both an instrumental music teacher for the School District of Haverford Township (PA) and as a faculty member in the Department of Music and Dance at Swarthmore College. Drew maintains a busy schedule as a composer and arranger for ensembles across the United States, Europe and Japan. He is a frequent presenter of sessions at annual conferences across the country. Recent commission projects include compositions for the University of Houston, Eastern Kentucky University, Swarthmore College Jazz Ensemble, the Vivace Brass Band of Tokyo, Japan as well as numerous public school commissions. He is a member of the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Additionally, Drew is a performing artist and clinician for Yamaha band instruments and is also an adjudicator and clinician for Bands of America/Music for All. He is in his second year as Program Coordinator for the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps (OH). Prior to this appointment , Drew served as brass caption head (1998-2000) and programming consultant (2002-2006) for the Cavaliers of Rosemont, IL. He has also served as brass caption head and/or arranger for the Cadets, Carolina Crown and Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. Drew, his wife Liz, daughters Hannah and Evelyn and pets Morgan, Muffin and Miles reside in Drexel Hill, PA. Please feel free to visit http://www.drewshanefield.com/. |  |
 | Thomas Rudolph,
Ed. D. is the Director of Music for Haverford School District, in Havertown, Pennsylvania and an adjunct Assistant Professor at The University of the Arts. He teaches technology courses at Berklee College of Music, Central Connecticut State University, and Villanova University. Tom is the president of TI:ME, the Technology Institute for Music Educators. His books include Sibelius: A Comprehensive Guide, Finale An Easy Guide to Music Notation, Recording in the Digital World, and Teaching Music With Technology. His articles have appeared in the Music Educators Journal, The Instrumentalist, Jazz Educator Journal, Downbeat Magazine, and Music Education Technology Magazine. Rudolph's compositions for band are published by Neil A. Kjos Music Publications and Northeastern Music Publications. |
| Raul Sosa Ornelas is currently Professor of trumpet and music theory at Lamar where he performs with the Lamar Brass Quintet. He is also principal trumpet with the Symphony of Southeast Texas and has performed with the Corpus Christi, Lake Charles, Meridian, and Rapides Symphony Orchestras. Recently, he completed a southern and midwestern tour with Keith Brion and The New Sousa Band as principal trumpet. Dr. Ornelas has been an active member of the International Trumpet Guild for several years. In 1987, he served as chairman of the ITG Jazz competition and in 1988, he chaired a five-member committee to elect ITG officers for the 1989-1991 term. He also served as chairman of the International Trumpet Guild Scholarship Competition in 1994. Dr. Ornelas has performed in several of the International Trumpet Guild conferences held throughout the country, most recently at the conference in Evansville, Indiana. The Lamar Trumpet Ensemble has performed at three conferences: in 1988, at the University of North Texas in Denton; in 1993 at the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio; and in 2001 at the University of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. Dr. Ornelas holds degrees from the University of Texas, McNeese University, and The University of Southern Mississippi. |  |
 | Pianist and composer, Patrick Stoyanovich, brings a rich musical experience to contemporary culture. Educated from age nine as a pianist and horn player, Mr. Stoyanovich was honored numerous times as outstanding soloist while still a teenager and began to perform as a professional pianist by age fourteen. Composition developed innately from his experiences as a performer and improviser. His formal education began at The University of Michigan School of Music graduating with a Bachelor's of Arts specializing in Piano Performance. He was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Jazz studying with noted New York City jazz pianist Richard Beirach. During this time, Mr. Stoyanovich also won the international competition: John W. Work III Prize for Composition. Mr. Stoyanovich continued his education at Yale University School of Music as a student of Jacob Druckman and was awarded the Irving Gilmore Fellowship for the Outstanding Composition Student and the John Day Jackson Prize for Chamber Music. He graduated from Yale with the graduate degree of Master's of Composition with High Honors. For post-graduate work, Mr. Stoyanovich studied at Le Academie des Americaines Conservatoire de Musique in Fontainebleau, France on a composition scholarship. There, he had the honor of studying in a select composition seminar lead by noted American musician Leonard Bernstein. Mr. Stoyanovich's composition teachers include three Pulitzer Prize winners: William Bolcom, Jacob Druckman and Leslie Basset as well as other noted American musicians such as Gunther Schuller. The orchestral compositions of Stoyanovich have been performed by a number of orchestras including the Pacific Symphony Orchestra (CA), Florida Orchestra (FL), Spokane Symphony Orchestra (WA), Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra (CA), Northwest Chamber Orchestra (WA), Bremerton Symphony Association (WA), Champlain Valley Symphony Orchestra (NY), Helena Symphony Orchestra (MT) and Butte Symphony Association (MT). His chamber and solo works have been performed in Canterbury, England's English Double Reed Society International Festival, on the Hungarian National Radio, at Carnegie Mellon University and on numerous recitals around our country from New Haven, CT to Los Angeles, CA. Patrick lives on Bainbridge Island, WA with his wife, Elizabeth (who is a conductor and advocate of his works) and their two daughters: Antonia Barbara and Sophia Isabelle. He is the co-owner of Metro City Music with a website at www.metrocitymusic.com. |
| Rob Grice's compositions appear on state, national and international contest music lists and have been performed at the Midwest Clinic as well as state and regional clinics/conventions. His music was selected for Japan's JVC Victor Entertainment BRN Compact Disc Series, a standard interpretive reference source for Japan's school music programs.
Mr. Grice is a native of southern Alabama, where he received his B.M.E. and M.S. degree from Troy State University and presently teaches in the Enterprise City School System and Enterprise-Ozark Community College in Enterprise Alabama. An outstanding music educator, he was named Teacher of the Year for the Enterprise City. He was recently featured in Wiregrass Living magazine and received the WDHN-TV Golden Apple Award for his achievements in the field of education. |
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Gerald J. Sebesky Born 1941. Gerald Sebesky studied music and received his Bachelor of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music in 1962, his Master of Arts degree from Teachers College, Columbia University in 1976, did post graduate studies at: Florida State University, University of Hartford, Rutgers University, University of Miami, Montclair University, University of Hawaii, and University of Buffalo.
Gerald Sebesky has taught at both the grade school and university level. He is a lecturer and clinician and presents these events at numerous music conventions and educational seminars throughout the U. S., Canada, and England. Mr. Sebesky plays the trombone and bass. He is published by many publishing companies and has written for all genre of music. Several of his books are in print. He also wrote the excerpt music for the 1991 motion picture, "Waiting For The Light" starring Shirley MacLaine. |
| Robert M. Geisler (1926-2003) Robert Geisler was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, where he resides today. He served in the Carrier Aircraft Service Unit #65 in World War II. Upon returning home, he received a Bachelor of Music Degree and Master of Administration from Trinity University. He also played with the San Antonio Symphony and conducted his own dance band.
Robert Geisler is a Charter Member of the Texas BandMaster's Association and is a Past President. He was elected to the Association of School Band Directors in 1962. In 1992, he was elected to the Phil Beta Mu Texas Band Director Hall of Fame. Mr. Geisler served as Educational Director and Band Manager of Southern Music Company in San Antonio until his retirement just a few years ago. |
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Ed Roseman is the author, publisher, and primary distributor of the well-loved books "Edly's Music Theory for Practical People" and "Edly Paints the Ivories Blue." The theory book is used by individuals and high school, college, and community theory classes
throughout the United States. He was music columnist
for the Maine Times in 1992, and his article "Teach Your Children Well" was
published in the 1/93 issue of Keyboard magazine as a guest editorial.
He is also a composer of many styles of music, some of which incorporate world music elements, and has written for diverse acoustic ensembles as well as for synthesizers. Commercially, his music can be heard on videos for clients such as Fablevision Animation Studios and Motorola Codex. His spirited and quirky "Uncle Stumble's Dance" and "Sweedler's Dance" were premiered by the Community Orchestra of the Portland Symphony in 1999. He has performed extensively as a solo multi-instrumentalist in California and elsewhere, as well as with the folk music show band Shanachie. He played on, produced, and arranged much of the material for (Klezmer band) the Casco Bay Tummlers' debut CD. He teaches privately at his studio in Kennebunkport, Maine, and is currently teaching the York County Regional Fine Arts Gifted and Talented Composition and Arranging Class. Having attended the Berklee College of Music and the University of Michigan at Interlochen, he received his B.A. with honors in music from Wesleyan University. Major areas of study included Western classical and jazz composition and theory, Ghanaian drumming, and solkattu (South Indian percussion solfege), as well as forays into Celtic and Chinese musics. He is an overtone singer, and plays bones, among other instruments. |
| Randy Navarre received his Bachelor of Music degree from
Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1973, his Master of
Music degree from Temple University, in Philadelphia, PA, in 1981, and his Doctor
of Musical Arts degree from the University of Maryland, in College Park, Maryland,
in 1989. His major areas of study were saxophone and composition. In addition to
playing the saxophone, Dr. Navarre also plays the wind controller.
Dr. Navarre began his teaching career in 1973, in the School District of Philadelphia. His experience ranges from developing instrumental music programs at the grade school level through teaching music majors in college. Randy Navarre is the originator and director of Northeastern Music Programs, an organization that provides general and instrumental music programs to schools. He is also the director and editor of Northeastern Music Publications. Dr. Navarre is the author of the "Instrumental Music Teacher's Survival Kit," a step-by-step guide to teaching all of the band instruments. Originally published by Prentice Hall, this book is now distributed by Northeaster Music Publications, Inc. |
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| Articles written by Dr. Navarre are published in The
Saxophone
Journal, The Instrumentalist, and BandWorld magazines. The
articles cover topics such as interviews, recruiting students for the band,
teaching the various band instruments, and tips for improving skills as a band
director.
Several compositions of Dr. Navarre's are published, and his music is performed throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Dr. Navarre performs as a classical saxophonist. He performs in concerts and festivals throughout the United States and Canada. The Selmer Company, Inc. co-sponsors clinics at which Dr. Navarre instructs students, teachers, and professionals. These clinics include instructions on developing young musicians and master classes for improving musicianship and professionalism. Dr. Navarre also provides clinics on teaching all beginning instruments, recruiting, developing the inner ear, and score reading. These clinics are given in colleges, state music educators' conferences, music stores/clinics, and Province meetings in Canada. |
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Mandy Hegvik is a 1989 Graduate of West Chester University, Pennsylvania where she earned the degrees of B.S. in Music Education and a Master of Music in Saxophone Performance. She taught elementary, middle school and high school levels of band and played in the saxophone quartet "Saxophonique" until moving to the Seattle area in 1998 where she is now director of an award winning choir and orchestra program at Canyon Park Junior High School. |
| Robert W. Lowden, an internationally known arranger and composer, was one of the best known modern day arrangers for orchestra, bands, and jazz bands. His works not only encompasses professional orchestras, film, and recordings, but he was a major contributor of musical arrangements for American's college and high school performers. Mr. Lowden was the chief arranger for over 100 recordings of "101 STRINGS." He was also in demand as a clinician and adjudicator of instrumental Festivals. Mr. Lowden was born on October 23, 1920 and died October 30, 1998. |  |
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J. Wayne
Dyess is Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas, a position he has held since 1977. Dyess came to Lamar directly out of the U.S. Navy Band, teaching as an Adjunct Instructor of Trombone from 1975 to 1977. He was also the director of the sweepstakes Nederland Junior High Band, and the IAJE award-winning Nederland High School Jazz Ensemble during those same years. During his tenure at Lamar, Dyess has served as Associate Director of Bands, director of the Concert Band, director of the 300 piece BIG RED Marching Band (“The Grandest Band in the Land”), director of the highly acclaimed LU Pep Band and the award winning Lamar University jazz bands ‘A’ and ‘B’. He has also taught music education courses, oversees the Music Department’s computer lab and recording studio, and teaches graduate courses as called upon. Dyess is also the founder and leader of a Lamar University alumni big band, known around Southeast Texas as The Night & Day Orchestra. http://www.ndotex.com
Wayne continues to tour our nation's towns and cities with Keith Brion and his New Sousa Band. Mr. Brion appears throughout the world as a guest conductor and is considered by many to be the foremost authority on John Phillip Sousa, along with historian and author Paul Bierley. Mr. Brion asked Mr. Dyess to join the band after hearing him play Arthur Pryor’s “Blue Bells of Scotland” with the Symphony of Southeast Texas in 1993. Wayne’s first appearance with the New Sousa Band was that same year in Branson, Missouri where the band performed in the Christy Lane Theatre for a one week run. Dyess has since toured from L.A. to Orlando and Vermont to New Orleans with the band, but a tour highlight was the 3 week tour of Japan made in August 1996. http://www.newsousaband.com Dyess has performed with many famous conductors, including Frederick Fennell, Karel Husa, Leonard Slatkin, Donald Stauffer, Anthony Mitchell, Arnold Gabriel, Arthur Fiedler, Kenneth G. Bloomquist, and Harry Begian. As a free-lance musician, Dyess has performed with such jazz artists as Clark Terry, Doc Severinson, Tommy Newsom, Ed Shaughnessy, Tony Campise, Maynard Ferguson, as well as The Letterman, The Country Gentlemen, Roger Williams, Christy Lane, B.J. Thomas, The Four Tops, and The Temptations, to name a few. Wayne Dyess earned degrees from Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, Texas), The Catholic University (Washington, D.C.), and the University of Houston (Houston, Texas). He has completed additional graduate work at the University of Texas, in Austin. |
| Gaston Darrell Holt, August 30, 1941 - September 7, 2000
Darrell Holt was an Associate Professor of music at Stephen F. Austin State University, in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he taught various jazz courses, arranging, and music theory from 1968 to fall, 2000. He was a nationally recognized jazz instrumental and vocal clinician during most of his life. Mr. Holt performed extensive work in recording studios as a conductor, arranger, composer, and performer, having produced more than forty albums. His most recent studio work was in Nashville for a recently released CD for young country music artist, Lee Ann Rimes. As a performer, he was an accomplished pianist, vocalist and trumpeter. He worked with such nationally recognized entertainers as Rich Little, Bob Hope, and B.J. Thomas. Darrell Holt's works have been performed by the San Antonio, Dallas, and Nashville Symphonies, as well as the Symphony of Southeast Texas, and the Kingwood Pops. He has received numerous commissions, including a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts. Darrell Holt passed away from heart complications on September 7, 2000 at Herman Hospital in Houston, Texas. |
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 | Larry McKenna is one of the leading jazz saxophonists in America. He is an instructor of jazz theory, harmony , and saxophone at Temple University, West Chester University, and Community College of Philadelphia.. Larry McKenna has performed as soloist with jazz stars such as Woody Herman, Clark Terry, Jon Faddis, Buddy DeFranco, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, and many more. His CD, My Shining Hour (music of Harold Arlen), is on EPE Records, distributed by BMG Music Canada Inc. It has received critical acclaim from reviewers all across the United States and Canada. Mr. McKenna can be heard on other CD's: Don Glanden, Sudden Life (Encounter Records); Al Raymond & Buddy DeFranco, Born To Swing (Hindsight Records), and Something Big; Woody Herman, Crown Royal (Laserlight Records). Music arranged by Larry McKenna has been played on the Tonight Show, with Johnny Carson, and in the movie Birdy, starring Nicholas Cage, in which he played and appeared. Mr. McKenna resides in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Lawrence Moss Composer, Professor and Director of Composition, University of Maryland College Park (1969-present); Assistant Professor, Yale University (1959-68); awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships (1959 & 1968); Distinguished Scholar/Teacher Award, University of Maryland (1982); Composer in Residence, Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy (1986); Creative and Performing Arts Awards, University of Maryland (1970, 1984, 1994); Dr. Moss has collaborated with many diverse artist, including internationally renowned singers Phyllis Bryn-Julson and George Shirley. His Dawn to Dawn, a work for orchestra and two soloist, will be premiered by John Shirley-Quirk and Sara Watkins with the Baton Rouge Symphony under John Paul in February, 1997. |  |
 | Richard Rudin
received his Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from
Temple University. His major areas of study were theory and composition, and piano.
He has performed regularly throughout the Eastern United States, playing a wide variety
of styles: classical, jazz, pop, folk, and rock. Mr. Rudin has composed works in many
different musical styles, including over 225 jazz and pop styles songs. His CD, Compositions
(Distributed by NorthCountry Distributors-315-287-2853, Redwood, NY), features 13 original
jazz compositions. A three and a half star review from the Philadelphia Inquirer
calls Compositions a "luminous recording," "full of bravura moments," showing "a masterly
use of color." Mr. Rudin has also composed electronic music, music for orchestra,
chamber ensembles, solo piano, and has created scores for numerous industrial films.
Mr. Rudin teaches piano, music theory, and composition privately. He is the founder
and director of the Maplewood Music Studio in Philadelphia, PA. |
