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Tom Aungst
Tom Aungst is the Director of Percussion at Dartmouth High School and was formerly the Percussion Arranger and Caption Head for the Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps (19 years) and involved with the corps since 1981. Tom is still very active in the Drum Corps activity, working with groups like the Blue Stars and Spartan Drum Corps. He is also a member of the DCI Hall of Fame.
Jim Bailey
Jim Bailey is the Education Relations Director for D’Addario and Co., and has also served on the instructional staff for the Cavaliers,
Blue Knights, Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps, I2, and Phantom Regiment winter percussion ensemble.
Lee Beddis
Lee Beddis is Percussion Supervisor/Arranger for The Carolina Crown. He has served as Percussion Caption Head/Arranger for The Phantom Regiment, The Glassmen, and The Crossmen, and has also served on staff for The Madison Scouts and The Star of Indiana.
John Brennan
John Brennan is currently the Associate Director of Bands at Plano East Senior High School in Plano, Texas. This summer, he will be consulting for the Crossman Drum and Bugle Corps out of San Antonio, Texas. He was on the percussion staff of the world champion Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps from 1997-2006.
Lamar Burkhalter
Lamar Burkhalter currently serves as the Music Director for the NFL Houston Texans, "Bull Pen Pep Band,” and serves on the Executive Board of the "Texas Bowl.” Mr. Burkhalter is also the Founder/Executive Director of Percussion One Foundation, a non profit percussion education and performance organization that performs for many corporate, sporting and community wide events in Houston and around Texas.
James Campbell
James Campbell is widely recognized as a performer, teacher, and composer. He is currently Provost's Distinguished Service Professor at
the University of Kentucky in Lexington and is past President of the Percussive Arts Society. He was inducted into the Drum Corps International Hall of Fame in 2008.
Tad Carpenter
Tad Carpenter has instructed with the Sacramento Freelancers, Glassmen, and Velvet Knights Drum & Bugle Corps and currently instructs drum lines for the University of Southern Californian Trojan Marching Band, the Tournament of Roses Honor Band, and is Director of Percussion at Pasadena City College.
Dr. David Collier
Dr. David Collier is Associate Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Illinois State University. He is also Principal Timpanist with the Illinois Symphony Orchestra and the Illinois Chamber Orchestra.
Dennis DeLucia
Dennis DeLucia is the only person to have been inducted into all three of the major Halls of Fame: DCI, WGI and the World Drum Corps Association. He is best known for his work with the Bridgemen, Muchachos, Star of Indiana, Crossmen, Sunrisers, and Caballeros, as well
as many high school and college bands.
Brian Fronzaglia
Brian Fronzaglia is currently the Professor of Percussion at Missouri Southern State University. He was a member of the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps and is currently on staff at WGI Independent World Finalist, Gateway Indoor. Brian is also a member of the NFL St. Louis Rams "Battering Rams" Drumline.
Dr. Gifford Howarth
Dr. Gifford Howarth is currently Assistant Professor of Percussion at Bloomsburg University in Bloomsburg, PA. He is a national adjudicator for WGI along with several state wide indoor percussion and marching band circuits. He has been on the staff of such groups
as The Cadets, Rochester Patriots, and the Syracuse Brigadiers.
Alan Keown
Alan Keown is a noted percussionist and teacher in the Pacific Northwest who has worked with nationally recognized performers and numerous orchestras. He serves as marching percussion specialist for West Salem High School (OR), and is the founder of the Alan Keown Marching Percussion Camp which is in its 21st year of existence.
Michael Kingan
Michael Kingan is an in-demand clinician, educator, and performer. He is currently Associate Professor of Music and Director of Percussion Studies at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Bret Kuhn
Bret Kuhn served as Caption Head and arranger with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps from 1984-2005. He is currently the Percussion Coordinator for the Prospect High School music program. He has been a consultant/arranger for various high schools around the country as well as groups in Europe and Japan.
Dave Marvin
Dave Marvin is the Director/Arranger for the Denver Broncos Stampede Drumline, Northglenn Percussion Theatre, Longmont High School Winter Percussion, and design coordinator for the Blue Knights World Percussion Ensemble. Dave is currently the President of the Rocky Mountain Percussion Association and WGI Hall of Fame inductee.
Kathy Marvin
Kathy Marvin is the percussion instructor at Northglenn High School. She teaches a middle school percussion ensemble and has an active private percussion studio. She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music Business from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Ben Maughmer
Ben Maughmer is currently Associate Director of Bands at Haltom High School. Ben has 25 years of drum corps experience as a performer and instructor with organizations such as the Spartans, Blue Knights, Cavaliers, BlueCoats, and currently serves on the Blue Devils instructional staff.
Michael McIntosh
Michael McIntosh has served as the Music Coordinator and Percussion Designer for the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps and teaches percussion at Carmel High School in Indiana. Michael is currently finishing his B.M. in Theory and Composition at Butler University in Indianapolis.
Dan Moore
Dan Moore, Professor of Music and Director of the percussion program at the University of Iowa, is an internationally known performer, composer, and educator. Dr. Moore performs at percussion festivals and in concert halls throughout the US, and has recently appeared in
China, Japan, Argentina, Malta, Mexico, and Sweden.
Jeff Moore
Jeff Moore is a Professor of Music and the Director of Percussion Studies at the University of Central Florida. He served as percussion
director for the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps.
Rob Parks
Rob Parks is currently the Percussion Director at Newman Smith High School in Carrollton, TX. Rob was a member of the Canton Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps and has served as a percussion consultant for Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps. Rob has also been on the percussion faculty at the Bands of America National Summer Symposium since 2001.
Dr. Nick Petrella
Dr. Nick Petrella is the Director of Education for Sabian Cymbal Company and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Percussion at UMKC Conservatory. He maintains a full schedule as a performer, clinician and teacher throughout North America, Europe and Asia.
David Ratliff
David Ratliff is the Director of Bands at Madison Southern High School in Berea, Kentucky. He holds two degrees from the University of Kentucky and is a former member of the Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps.
Amy Savage
Amy Savage, a percussion specialist living in Chapel Hill NC, serves as the director of marching percussion at Duke University in Durham, NC and consults/instructs several high school marching band programs in the Raleigh-Durham area and the Southaven Band in Mississippi. Amy has taught and arranged for drum and bugle corps including the Garfield Cadets, Bluecoats, Glassmen, Poynton Commodores, and Starriders.
Matt Savage
Matt Savage played snare drum with the legendary Bayonne Bridgemen and served as percussion instructor and arranger for the Velvet Knights, the Dutchboy of Kitchener, Ontario and the Bluecoats. He serves as an adjudicator for Winter Guard International and is the Director of Marching Percussion at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Andrew Spencer
Andrew Spencer currently holds the position of Professor of Percussion at Central Michigan University and is active internationally as a recitalist and clinician. Spencer is timpanist with the West Shore Symphony Orchestra and has also held positions with the Yakima Symphony Orchestra and the Cascade Festival Orchestra.
Naoko Takada
Naoko Takada is an internationally recognized concert marimbist of the highest stature. She won First Prize in the Young Concert Artist
International Audition as well as many other international awards. She continues to “concertize” and teach marimba worldwide.
Clif Walker
Clif Walker is the director of Timber Creek Independent (TCI) percussion ensemble and percussion arranger/coordinator for the University of Central Florida Marching Knights Drumline. He was percussion caption head with the Southwind Drum and Bugle corps (1999-2002) and Associate Director of Bands in charge of percussion and jazz at Timber Creek High School, Orlando Florida (2001-2008).
Dr. Brian West
Dr. Brian West is currently Associate Professor of Music at Texas Christian University, where he coordinates all aspects of the percussion program. In addition to his duties at TCU, Brian maintains an active performance, clinic, and adjudication schedule.
Kennan Wylie
Kennan Wylie holds Bachelor and Master Degrees in Music Education from the University of North Texas. He currently teaches at the University of Texas at Arlington, and at Marcus High School where he coordinates the marching percussion program along with several other percussion ensembles.
Jim Yakas
Jim Yakas served on staff with the Madison Scouts drum and bugle corps becoming Percussion Director in 2003. Jim is currently Adjunct Professor of Percussion and Marching Percussion Director at the University of Texas at Arlington.
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