Nathan Johnston

Nathan Johnston is pursuing a PhD in Music Education in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts at Arizona State University. He conducts the Wind ensembles within the Phoenix Youth Symphony organization. Additionally, he is the Assistant Director of Instrumental Music at Mesa Community College and teaches as an Adjunct Faculty member at Ottawa University in their music education program. Prior to ASU, Nathan was the Director of Bands at McClintock High School. Nathan completed his M.Ed. from Auburn University and B.M. from Arizona State University. He continues to work actively as a clinician, adjudicator, and conductor around Arizona.

Jordan Sayre

Jordan Sayre is currently in his 3rd year as the Associate Band Director at Valencia High School in the Los Lunas Public School District where he directs the Symphonic band and Big Band Jazz Ensemble. He also assists with the Jaguar Marching Band which has won numerous accolades. Along with his duties at the high School, Mr. Sayre also teaches beginning band at Peralta and Bosque Farms elementary and assists with the concert band and the 4 time State champion Jaguar Band at Valencia Middle School. Mr. Sayre earned his Bachelor Degree in Music Education from The University of New Mexico.

Topics include:

• Resources for finding repertoire
• Balancing student interests, audience appeal, personal interest, and educational goals
• Repertoire’s importance in instructional design
• Suitability vs. Quality

Some resources mentioned:

• JW Pepper: Online music retailer offering streaming recordings and scores for thousands of works.
• Teaching Music Through Performance Series

Jordan Sayre

Jordan Sayre is currently in his 3rd year as the Associate Band Director at Valencia High School in the Los Lunas Public School District where he directs the Symphonic band and Big Band Jazz Ensemble. He also assists with the Jaguar Marching Band which has won numerous accolades. Along with his duties at the high School, Mr. Sayre also teaches beginning band at Peralta and Bosque Farms elementary and assists with the concert band and the 4 time State champion Jaguar Band at Valencia Middle School. Mr. Sayre earned his Bachelor Degree in Music Education from The University of New Mexico.

Abbie recently wrote about her journey through the National Board Certification for the online music education publication Leading Notes.

About Abbie Van Klompenberg

Abbie Van Klompenberg

In 2010, Mrs. Van Klompenberg authored and won the Wallace A. Denehy grant, providing funds to create a digital music and composition lab in her elementary general music classroom. Mrs. Van Klompenberg has presented at the local, state, and national level including the 2012 Arizona Music Education Association’s Conference and the 2011 Mountain Lake Colloquium for teachers of general music methods. Other academic interests include creativity through composition, integration of popular music and popular culture into the music classroom, and project-based learning.

You can follow Abigail on Twitter @namelesstweet.

Some of the links mentioned in the show are listed below. Mr. Berard will be a featured speaker at this summer’s College Band Director’s National Conference Band Education Symposium at Arizona State University

Links:

• Fossil Ridge High School Bands
• American Rhetoric Project
• Apple iLife Suite (iMovie, GarageBand, iPhoto)
• Audacity – Free Audio Editing Software
• Tonal Energy Tuner
• iReal B

Links discussed during show:

• 2012 CBDNA Band Education Symposium at Arizona State University
• College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA)
• Opera By You: Interactive Crowdsourced Opera
• Ron Wakefield Featured in the Los Angeles Times
• Ben Cameron: The True Power of the Performing Arts
• Isaiah House Musicians Go to Carnegie Hall

Some of the Upcoming Summer Symposiums

• CBDNA Band Education Symposium, Arizona State University, June 26-30
• Art of Band Conducting and Rehearsal Workshop, University of Texas at Austin, June 10-14
• CBDNA Conducting Symposium, University of Colorado at Boulder, June 11-15.
• Virginia Tech Band Directors Institute, Virginia Tech University, July 8-11
• Band Conducting and Pedagogy Workshop, University of Michigan, July 17-22
• Michigan State University Conducting Symposium, Michigan State University, June 3-7

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Trish Cornett

Trish Cornett is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in conducting at the University of Michigan, where she studies with Michael Haithcock. She previously earned the Master of Music degree in conducting from Northwestern University, where she studied with Mallory Thompson, and the Bachelor of Music dual degree in saxophone performance and K-12 music education from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where her teachers included Malcolm Rowell and Lynn Klock.

Cornett taught for three years at Essex High School in Essex Junction, Vermont, where she conducted three bands and taught courses in guitar and history of rock. She held a similar position at Woodland Regional High School in Beacon Falls, Connecticut from 2002-2005. Cornett is published in the Teaching Music Through Performance in Band series and is a member of the College Band Directors National Association.

Besides the sketchy online information found on wiki sites, check out the following:

James Reese Europe

• Carnegie Hall Concert 1912
• Carnegie Hall Recreation Concert 1989
• Vernon and Irene Castle’s Ragtime Revolution, by Eve Golden
• Harlem’s Hellfighters, by Stephen L. Harris
• A Life in Ragtime, by Reid Badger (Award-winning biography of James Reese Europe)
• More music by James Reese Europe through the Library of Congress National Jukebox
• Watch dancers perform the Castle Walk