urkadrums Posted August 2, 2008 Posted August 2, 2008 takigan said: Gonna post a bit on ol' "Gee-town": Replacing Paul Pape for the Fall is percussion instructor, Jed Leach. Before coming to Georgetown, Leach was the percussion instructor at Plymouth-Canton Educational Park HS. In 2008, PCEP was a WGI Indoor Drumline World Finalist and the Michigan Colorguard and Drumline Circuit State champions. Leach is a Phantom Regiment alumnus ('01, '02) and has also taught at Lafayette HS in Kentucky (KMEA State marching band champions: 1990-2002, 2006). Yeah we lost Pape, along with Tyler Dempsey, our pit tech. Luckily, he is still our percussion arranger for the show this year. Along with Leach, we now have Jeff Otto, replacing Tyler's position. This was the biography we got about him. Mr. Otto is currently completing his doctorate in percussion performance at the University of Texas at Austin. Before moving to Austin, he received his master's degree from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he was the graduate teaching assistant to Gordon Stout, and his bachelor's degree from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas under the direction of Kevin Bobo. In addition to his studies over the last three years, Mr. Otto performs regularly with the Austin Symphony Orchestra and the Austin Lyric Opera Orchestra, and was just recently placed on the sub-list of the New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, Florida. He has also performed in concert with Dr. Tom Burritt at the Leigh Howard Stevens Summer Marimba Seminar and was a soloist with the UT Graduate Percussion Quartet at the 2006 PASIC. Quote
rpd Posted August 2, 2008 Posted August 2, 2008 Our assistant director, Mr. Kent Summerour, has left to go on a tour with his electronic/metal band. He is replaced by Mr. Alan Perkins. I met him yesterday when the section leaders and officers had to prep the practice field for camp. So far, I think he is a pretty cool guy. If I remember his intro correctly he has been successful in Ohio and California. And worked for the Phantom Regiment in 2007. Quote
radchad Posted August 4, 2008 Posted August 4, 2008 I thought GP HS has a Colorguard director now. His name is Jonathon Hernandez. Quote
ryan_albert52 Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 crazyjakeup said: those guys are full of themselves... i almost forgot about them... we used to play against them(football)... those fans were funny, they thought there band was way better than ours... when the fact was that we were better than them... at least our fans know when another band is better than us.(ex: berkner last years playoffs)... Wow. You are truely clueless i guess. lol. Mr. Todd Dixon is going to transform "That Wylie Band" into a marching band beast! I have been under the direction of Todd Dixon before he went to Wylie, believe me, this man is musical and marching genius! He and the Mansfield Summit Band was the state runner up in the 2006 area finals. Not many people can do this with a six year old school! Expect to see "That Wylie Band" "powerhousing" at state soon. Quote
ryan_albert52 Posted September 19, 2008 Posted September 19, 2008 crazyjakeup said: those guys are full of themselves... i almost forgot about them... we used to play against them(football)... those fans were funny, they thought there band was way better than ours... when the fact was that we were better than them... at least our fans know when another band is better than us.(ex: berkner last years playoffs)... gee I havn't been on in a while....lol Quote
rpd Posted September 20, 2008 Posted September 20, 2008 rpd said: Our assistant director, Mr. Kent Summerour, has left to go on a tour with his electronic/metal band. He is replaced by Mr. Alan Perkins. I met him yesterday when the section leaders and officers had to prep the practice field for camp. So far, I think he is a pretty cool guy. If I remember his intro correctly he has been successful in Ohio and California. And worked for the Phantom Regiment in 2007. Well, update on this. Mr. Alan Perkins left us after about 2 weeks to go be an assistant at Edinburg North. He was replaced Mr. Matthew Seifert. He is an LSU grad and just came back from the air force band tenure of 7 years. Mr Seifert is also running the jazz band and has made the class very fun. He's teaching everyone theory and how to improve and has already provided me some great knowledge ill use for the future. Quote
mbui Posted September 20, 2008 Posted September 20, 2008 rpd said: Well, update on this. Mr. Alan Perkins left us after about 2 weeks to go be an assistant at Edinburg North. I'm not surprised. What was his reason? I ask because he's done it before. In 2004, when he accepted the Lake Park HS (IL) position and then declined the position a few hours or days later. And, he resigned in July when he accepted the position at Ball HS in Galveston and then resigned to go to Marshall. He was also the director at Victoria Memorial HS a few years back and then left in the middle of the marching season. I don't know the circumstances behind that situation though. ------------------- New Ball High band director resigns post By Rhiannon Meyers The Daily News Published July 25, 2008 GALVESTON Quote
rpd Posted September 20, 2008 Posted September 20, 2008 mbui said: I'm not surprised. What was his reason? I ask because he's done it before. In 2004, when he accepted the Lake Park HS (IL) position and then declined the position a few hours or days later. And, he resigned in July when he accepted the position at Ball HS in Galveston and then resigned to go to Marshall. He was also the director at Victoria Memorial HS a few years back and then left in the middle of the marching season. I don't know the circumstances behind that situation though. ------------------- New Ball High band director resigns post By Rhiannon Meyers The Daily News Published July 25, 2008 GALVESTON Quote
Danpod Posted September 21, 2008 Posted September 21, 2008 rpd said: Mr. Alan Perkins left us after about 2 weeks to go be an assistant at Edinburg North. This guy takes and leaves director positions like it's a bodily function. This is not shocking in the least. However, I will be shocked if he's still employed by Edinburg North at the end of the season. Quote
titancoaster Posted October 6, 2008 Posted October 6, 2008 I didnt want to put this one up until we had already established a reputation for this year (which I believe we have with winning USSBA and making finals at BOA Arlington) because I didnt want anybody to think differently of the Connally Band. In may our head band director, Chico Portillo (he has been the head director at CHS since it opened), announced that he was moving up in the district to become the head of Fine Arts for the Pflugerville school district. With that said our new Head band director is Mr. Matt Atkinson, the previous assisstant band director from Hendrickson HS. He has fit in with the Connally Band program excellently and with all the changes he has brought we are still the Connally Band, and we are having one of the best seasons we have ever had. Quote
WCHSParent Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Danpod said: Churchill has a new director: Brent Johnson, former Director of Bands at Daviess H.S. in Kentucky. He should be a nice asset to the program. Churchill had multiple changes, Mr. Johnson just being one of them. (He's great, by the way...) Mr. Alan Sharps was chosen as Director of Bands at Lady Bird Johnson (the new school split off of Reagan). I watched his band perform at halftime of the recent football game we played against them. He's going to make a splash with that band, and soon. 1 senior and 16 juniors in a ~150 person 1st year band and they already looked pretty good. I got to talk to him for a while during the game as well. He's up to his earlobes in work (all the little things established programs take for granted he's having to build from the ground up)...but he's having a good time doing it. Everyone here is really happy for him. Another new hire...Mr. Tony Ruiz had been the marching tech for a couple of years while still at Texas State...now he's graduated and was hired as an assistant director. Quote
BassoonPadwan Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 (edited) Akins had yet ANOTHER director swap out this year. For the past five year the only director to be there the whole time has been Gary Faust the head director. I think it's apparent looking at the different shows over the past few years now that I look back on it. A quiet joke kind of around the band hall was, "Hehe...... how long do you bet this person will be here?" Edited October 13, 2008 by BassoonPadwan Quote
Xenon Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 BassoonPadwan said: Akins had yet ANOTHER director swap out this year. For the past five year the only director to be there the whole time has been Gary Faust the head director. I think it's apparent looking at the different shows over the past few years now that I look back on it. A quiet joke kind of around the band hall was, "Hehe...... how long do you bet this person will be here?" Sounds like the Defense Against the Dark Arts position. Quote
Donezo Posted October 13, 2008 Posted October 13, 2008 Xenon said: Sounds like the Defense Against the Dark Arts position. People made the same kind of jokes when Faust was at Mesquite High School! Apparently the curse followed him to Austin. Quote
BassoonPadwan Posted October 15, 2008 Posted October 15, 2008 Donezo said: People made the same kind of jokes when Faust was at Mesquite High School! Apparently the curse followed him to Austin. Yup...... that sounds about right. lol I just wish they could find someone they(students & Faust) mesh well with and that can stay there. I want to really see them take off already! Quote
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