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ADJUDICATORS
Grade 2 – 6 FestivalConcert Band Adjudicators
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2011 CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATORS
CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATOR
Dr. Milton Allen
DR. MILTON ALLEN currently serves as Visiting Associate Director of Bands at The Ohio State University where his duties include conducting the OSU Symphonic Band and teaching courses in undergraduate instrumental conducting. He is Director of Bands and Instrumental Division Director at Eastern Illinois University, where he conducts the Wind Symphony, Collegiate Band, University Band, teaches undergraduate conducting, guides the graduate wind conducting program, and oversees all aspects of Eastern’s band program.
A 17-year veteran of the public school rehearsal room, Dr. Allen’s refreshing and practical approach to both music education and conducting has taken him throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom as a clinician and guest conductor. From British Columbia to Glasgow, Scotland and at conferences including the Midwest Clinic, MENC regional and national conventions and BASBWE International Wind Festivals, Dr. Allen’s humour, passion, and experience combine to illuminate the possibilities of both music education and the live art of performance.
Active in the commissioning and recording of new wind works for both developing and experienced bands, he has collaborated with many composers, including Michael Sweeney (High Water Mark: The Third Day), Mark Camphouse (Watchman, Tell Us of the Night), James Bonney (Courage and Compassion and TranZendental Danse of Joi), Jonathan Newman (My Hands Are a City) and Steven Bryant (Ecstatic Waters). His first book is slated to be released by Meredith Music Publications/Hal Leonard.
Ensembles under Allen's direction have received numerous awards at local, state and national levels including recognition by the United States Congress for Musical Excellence. He is a two-time school Teacher of the Year, a Kansas Teacher of the Year Semi-Finalist, and is listed in various Who’s Who publications. Other honours and distinctions include 5 awards from the Ohio State University School of Music recognizing his teaching and service and selection as a Conducting Fellow for the Eastman Wind Ensemble's 40th Anniversary.
In 2008 Dr. Allen became the first civilian in the history of the United States Air Force to tour as a featured conductor (USAF Heritage of America Band) and received an Eastern Illinois University Achievement and Contribution Award.
Allen earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree with honours from the University of North Texas, his Master’s degree in conducting from the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Diploma of Fine Arts in Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band from the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada and the Doctor of Musical Arts from The Ohio State University.
Dr. Allen is a Jupiter Instruments Artist Conductor/Clinician.
CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATOR
Ms. Rita Burns
RITA BURNS received her Bachelor of Education degree majoring in music from the University of Alberta. Recently retired from 37 years of conducting award-winning junior high school bands in Edmonton, Rita currently conducts the Wednesday Band and Adult Beginner Band of Cosmopolitan Music Society in Edmonton. She is also a frequent guest conductor, band clinician, adjudicator, and conference speaker in the area of middle school and junior high school band.
Over her career, Rita Burns has received several awards: the David Peterkin Award for dedication to the pursuit of excellence in band music from the band fraternity, Phi Beta Mu; the Elkhorn Award for Band Director of the Year from the Alberta Band Association; a provincial Excellence in Teaching Award; and a Prime Minister's Award for Teaching Excellence.
Rita Burns has served various provincial arts service organizations. She has been secretary-treasurer of the Alberta Choral Directors' Association and is a past-president of the Alberta Band Association and Music Alberta. She is currently president of the Alberta Summer Workshop Association and Sing for Life Society of Alberta, and is a member of the board of Pro Coro Canada, Alberta’s professional choir. She is committed to helping bring the arts and arts education to people in all walks of life.
CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATOR
Mr. Colin Clarke
We are very excited to announce that the Senior High Honour Band will be conducted by Mr. Colin Clarke.
COLIN CLARKE resides in Oakville, Ontario with his wife Laura. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, a project he began as a student in high school. This multi-award winning ensemble has earned a reputation nationwide as one of the leading performance ensembles of its kind in Canada, specializing in music from the traditional through to the newest works for wind band. Though he is best known for his work with the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, Colin’s popularity as a conductor, clinician, adjudicator and composer/arranger has captured the attention of instrumental and choral ensembles, schools and music festivals all across Canada.
A recent recipient of the Clifford Evans Award for Conducting, Colin’s credits include collaboration with groups such as the United States Air Force Band of Liberty in Boston, Massachusetts, the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir, Ballet Jörgen, jazz vibraphonist Peter Appleyard, trumpet virtuosi Allan Vizzutti and Jens Lindemann, and the Canadian Brass.
Colin’s formal training stems from the University of Western Ontario in London, where he studied orchestral conducting with Jerome Summers and Jim McKay, and worked alongside such artists as Timothy Vernon and Susan Haig. He furthered his studies at the University of North Texas where he participated in workshops for wind band conducting and rehearsal techniques led by famed wind conductor Dr. Eugene Corporon and renowned composer Jack Stamp. He also studied briefly in New York at the Manhattan School of Music, participating in a special master class for orchestral conductors. The master class featured a session at Carnegie Hall with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Sibelius Orchestra of Finland.
Colin recently returned from Sofia, Bulgaria where he conducted the symphonies of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky as part of the International Conducting Workshop & Festival with the highly celebrated New Symphony Orchestra, and studied with Rossen Milanov of the Philadelphia Orchestra and renowned conducting pedagogue Gustav Meier. He made his Carnegie Hall debut last spring with his Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, and has been invited to return to Carnegie in 2011 as part of the Wind Orchestra's 20th Anniversary season.
With a passion for music education and outreach, Colin maintains a commitment to working with young people and the community. He has conducted several all-city bands, orchestras and choirs across Ontario, and has led the Provincial Honour Bands of Alberta, Ontario, Quebec and Prince Edward Island. In the spring of 2008 he served as conductor of the prestigious National Youth Band of Canada.
CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATOR
Mr. Michael Eddy
MICHAEL EDDY taught music for 24 years at Westwood Community High School in Ft. McMurray, teaching grades 9 to 12 Band. He holds a Bachelor of Music in Theory and Composition from the University of Western Ontario and an Associate in Piano Performance.
His concert and stage bands have maintained consistently high standards. His senior concert band received the "Most Outstanding Band" at the ABA Festival of Bands and Superior and first place standings at international festivals. Mr. Eddy has previously served as a board member and vice-president on the Alberta Band Association. He spent three summers as a conductor and instructor at Musicamrose.
He has twice received Alberta's "Excellence in Teaching" award, the most recent being one of the twenty provincial awards. In 1998 he was Alberta’s Band Director of the Year. In 1984 he was chosen Citizen of the Year for Kitimat, B.C. and in 2000 he was chosen as Distinguished Citizen of the Year for Fort McMurray. Mr. Eddy has been active as an accompanist and music director for Keyano College Theatre as well as Music Director for the 2004 Arctic Winter Games. Mr. Eddy presently resides on Vancouver Island.
CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATOR
Dr. Angela Schroeder
A native of Alberta, DR. ANGELA SCHROEDER completed undergraduate studies in Music at University of Calgary, majoring in Secondary Education, with performance studies in piano and trumpet. She also completed the Diploma of Fine Arts in Wind Band Conducting at University of Calgary under the supervision of Glenn Price. After years of teaching at various secondary schools in the Calgary area, she entered the Long Term Residency program at The Banff Centre, where she studied and performed on piano, trumpet, and as a conductor. Angela entered the Master’s program in Wind Conducting at Northwestern University in 2002, where she studied with Mallory Thompson and earned the Master of Music in Conducting. In 2007 she completed the degree Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Band Conducting at the University of North Texas under the supervision of Eugene Corporon.
Dr. Schroeder is currently Assistant Professor of Music in the Department of Music of the University of Alberta. She is the Director of Bands, the area coordinator for the Winds and Percussion, and conducts the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and the Academy Winds and Percussion. She teaches courses in conducting and wind band education, and works with graduate students in wind band conducting. She previously taught conducting at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. Angela was recently appointed as conductor of the St. Albert Community Band, and takes over as the ensemble begins their 41st concert season.
Angela Schroeder is well-known in the Alberta music education community, not only through her teaching and conducting both in schools and in community music organizations, but through her involvement as an executive director of the Alberta Band Association for several years. Angela has performed on cornet with the Mill Creek Colliery Band and is the Principal Trumpet for the Concordia University Orchestra.
Angela has guest conducted and adjudicated numerous school bands in festivals and clinics throughout Western Canada. She is a contributor in five volumes of the Teaching Music through Performance in Band series which profiles wind literature for all levels of instrumental instruction, published by GIA. She is also joyfully married to husband Geoffrey and mother to her brilliant son, Joshua.
CONCERT BAND ADJUDICATOR
Mr. Bruce Smith
Born in Duluth, Minnesota, trumpeter, indie/pop songwriter and composer BRUCE SMITH currently resides on the tiny island of Salt Spring, “smack dab in the middle” of the west coast of Vancouver and east coast of Vancouver Island, where he teaches music full time.
Lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, Bruce and four other music teachers re-wrote the High School Music Curriculum for British Columbia and the Territories, plus created the current 11/12 Music Composition and Technology course being taught across the province of B.C. The biggest focus in Bruce’s day gig is getting students to create original music and think past their supposed limitations.
2011 JAZZ BAND ADJUDICATORS
JAZZ BAND ADJUDICATOR
Dr. David Renter
DAVID RENTER is the Director of Jazz Activities and Saxophone at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. His interests in music cover a wide variety of topics including: music performance, composition & pedagogy along with the study (and history) of American popular music. Previously, David was Director of Jazz Studies and Saxophone at Oklahoma City University.
Dr. Renter holds degrees from the University of Lethbridge (B. Mus) and the University of Texas at Austin (M. Mus) & (D.M.A.). His doctoral dissertation, entitled Holiday in Reality is a five-movement suite composed for a jazz chamber ensemble that includes: violins & cello, brass, woodwinds and jazz rhythm section. This dissertation was awarded the prestigious Outstanding Dissertation Award by the University of Texas at Austin College of Fine Arts.
In the fall of 2002 David was awarded first place for his big band composition Closing (Afterthought) at the First International Jazz Composition Contest in Brussels, Belgium. He was invited to Brussels to conduct his winning composition with the Brussels Jazz Orchestra. The performance was recorded and released on New Baltic Records.
His first CD A Tale of Three Cities was released in 2004 featuring pianist Kurt Ellenberger and bassist Dave Spring. In December 2006, David recorded his second jazz CD Everywhere I Go with pianist Chris Andrew, bassist Kodi Hutchinson and drummer Tyler Hornby. The recording features many original compositions and was released in August 2007 on Chronograph records. Both recordings are available from CD Baby and iTunes. More information: www.daverenter.com.
JAZZ BAND ADJUDICATOR
Mr. Jim Sisko
JIM SISKO, trumpeter and educator, has become one of the most sought-after teachers and performers in the Northwest. Jim received his Master’s of Music in Trumpet Performance from Central Washington University in 1997. While at CWU he served as a teaching assistant in Trumpet, Jazz Improvisation and Jazz History. In 1997 Jim returned to Seattle to continue his career as a performer and educator.
The Jim Sisko Quintet has been featured in countless festival and concert venues, including The Art of Jazz series sponsored by the Seattle Art Museum and KPLU, the Bumbershoot Music Festival, the Port Townsend Jazz Festival and
Jazz Under the Stars.
Jim’s performances are not limited to jazz as he has performed with The Seattle Symphony and has served as the principal trumpet for the Yakima Symphony. As an active studio musician, Jim has recorded over 40 soundtracks for video games, television and motion pictures, including The Matrix and Lake Placid. He has performed with The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Natalie Cole, Barry Manilow, Manhattan Transfer and the rock band Yes. In 1996 Jim created and organized the first Ellensburg Jazz Festival, which would later become Jazz in the Valley, one of the most popular music events in eastern Washington.
Jim Sisko’s private trumpet studio is a direct reflection of his playing experiences. His students are well-versed in both classical and jazz styles, and are consistently recognized as some of the strongest players in the region. With a balance of supportive enthusiasm and direct tutelage that encourages excellence, Jim is a favorite adjudicator at festivals throughout the U.S. Jim is currently the Director of Jazz for the Northwest School, a liberal arts high school in Seattle. He also teaches trumpet for Shoreline Community College and at his home studio in Seattle. In the summer, Jim directs the Shoreline Jazz Camp. Jim Sisko plays Kanstul trumpets and Yamaha flugelhorns.
JAZZ BAND ADJUDICATOR
Mr. Reggie Thomas
We are very excited to announce that the Jazz Honour Band will be conducted by Mr. Reggie Thomas.
REGINALD THOMAS can be seen fronting his own groups (Mardra/Reggie Thomas Ensemble; OGD) on both piano and Hammond organ and as a sideman with great artists including Hamiett Blueit, Ann Hampton Callaway, and the Carl Allen/Rodney Whitaker Ensemble. Most recently he was the accompanist for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington. D.C. Reggie continues to appear as guest artist at collegiate jazz festivals around the country including Lawrence University, the University of South Florida and Texas Tech University. He has also performed internationally in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Milan, Italy; Warsaw and Poznan, Poland; Senegal, West Africa; and London, England. Recordings include work with Clay Jenkins, Kim Richmond, Clark Terry/Mike Vax, as well as his own recordings Fade to Blue with wife Mardra (MaxJazz), Standard Time (Victoria), and 4 (Jazz Compass). Reggie has been awarded the Excellence in the Arts award from the Greater St. Louis Arts and Education Council and was named in the Riverfront Times 2005 “Best of St. Louis” issue as Best Jazz Artist.
Reggie is professor of music at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and a consultant/clinician for Jazz at Lincoln Center, working with the Essentially Ellington Program and Band Director Academy. Thomas has also served on several summer jazz faculties across the country and abroad including the International Association for Jazz Education Teacher Training Institute; the Birch Creek Music Center; the Eastman School of Music Summer Jazz Camp; Summer Jazz Academy in Chodziez, Poland and most recently, the Barbican Center in London. He remains an active clinician/adjudicator at colleges throughout the country and at International Association for Jazz Education Conventions (now JEN). Thomas has directed All State Jazz Bands, Combos and Jazz Choirs in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, South Dakota and Tennessee and directed the first ever Missouri All-College Jazz Band.
2011 GRADE 1 FESTIVAL ADJUDICATORS
GRADE 1 FESTIVAL ADJUDICATOR
Sarah Drew
SARAH DREW (B.Mus., Ed. Certif.; Diploma of Fine Arts in Wind Band Conducting) has a great passion for music and its role in the lives of young people. Whether it is choral or instrumental music, Sarah has enjoyed bringing her love of music to all ages.
Ms. Drew spent twenty years at middle schools, teaching ECS through grade nine music at Sherwood Community School and Elboya School in Calgary. These positions involved full Jr. High band programs of concert bands and jazz ensembles as well as elementary music classes.
Over the years, students and parents have nominated Sarah for the Teaching of Excellence Award and the Pan Canadian Teacher’s Choice Award while her band program received recognition from the Calgary Board of Education as a Program of Excellence and was frequently awarded gold at festivals.
One of Ms. Drew’s great passions is starting students on their instruments. She has co-written a beginning band method called Kodály for Band, which is in use in many schools across Canada and the USA, and is frequently invited to speak on this topic.
Sarah has directed bands at the University of Calgary Summer Band Workshop, at MusiCamrose, as well guest conducting and adjudicating across the province. Ms. Drew’s love of music also extends to adults, as she was the Founder and Artistic Director of the “Sherwood-Like-to-Play” Adult Community Band in Calgary for seventeen years.
Professionally, Sarah has served on the Alberta Band Association Board and the AIBF Board, and currently is on the Executive for the Arts & Culture Foundation of Cochrane (ACFC). Sarah lives in Cochrane, directs the Cochrane Children’s Choir, and continues to teach for the CBE.