TOM CONTI (tenor saxophone)

Eastman School of Music Prep School, State University of New York, Empire State College (BA Performance), West Point Military Academy Band, Accepted for U.S. Military Academy band, West Point. Recently retired St. Augustine HS Band director and Head of Fine Arts Dept. Augustinian Secondary Educational Association Award and Splrit of Saints Award. All-American Association of Contest Judges. General Effect and Execution Judge. Many years as a professional touring musician and currently playing in many San Diego Music projects.

JOHN DALLY (trumpet)

Graduated Pt. Loma Nazarene University 2004. Currently Music director at Pt. Loma HS and graduate student at PLNU. Graduate Burbank HS (trumpet section leader, drum major and band president). Recently voted "Teacher of the Year" at PLHS. This year John was the recipient of the Schuchman Award given to the Outstanding Music Teacher in the San Diego Unified School District.

PETER De LUKE (saxophone)

B.S. Crane School of Music (New York), M.A. and Doctoral Studies, Columbia Universityy. Retired Supervisor of Music, Hastings-on-the¬Hudson. New York. Jazz Artists Guild, San Diego Clarinet Society. President of the Jazz Association of Greater San Diego. Local private teacher, woodwinds.

MARC DWYER (trombone)

Band director Correia Middle School. Undergraduate: Juilliard School of Music New York. Graduate School, Northwestern University, Master’s degree in Music. Owned and operated a successful private studio in Chicago, with his wife. After moving to San Diego. Previous assignment,Kroc Middle School. Assigned to Correia Middle School in 2006. He performs with the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra. Mark, nad his wife Cynthia are the proud parents of band baby, Caitlyn.

KARL FITCH (trumpet)

Retired Band Director, Twin Peaks Middle School. Former Vice President of Elementary and Middle School Education Southern California School sand and Orchestra Association. Serves as a festival judge, parade judge, and sight-reading judge for SCSBOA.

ABELARDO D. FLORES, trumpet coach and conductor

Abelardo Flores received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in music from San Diego State University, where he studied composition from David Ward-Steinman and Merle Hogg. His compositions have been performed throughout the U.S. and he has received commissions from the U.S. First Marine Division Band and the Tifereth Isrel Community Orchestra. His orchestration of Lazare Saminsky's "The Vow" has been recorded by David Amos,(also an SDSU grad) and the Royal ScottishPhilharmonic Orchestra. Abelardo has completed his fifth season as conductor of the San Diego Concert Band. Abelardo also plays in a German Band while wearing leiderhosen for Oktoberfest gigs.

JENNIFER HELLING FLORES (French horn)

Has been playing various instruntents since childhood, and began teaching music in highschool. She is a working musician in San Diego and Imperial Counties, Is currently finishing her B.A. in Music Education from SDSU. Performs regularly with several community groups. Teaches piano, theory, and band instruments,

SHAWN LOESCHER (alto saxophone)

Native San Diegan and Point Loma High School graduate where he was drum major of the PLHS Band. Started alto saxophone with Jim Trepasso at Correia JHS, then studied with Gary Foster. Graduated Berklee College of Music (Boston), with a BA MCL. As a touring musician, composer and conductor, his work has been acclaimed in Asia, Europe, and here in the new world. While engaged in an active professional. career, he has acted as a music education consultant to institutions as distant as the Republic of Slovakia and as close as San Diego City Schools. Shawn is currently developing a music production program for high school students in the U. S. as well as being Program Specialist of Arts, Media & Entertainment for College, Career & Technical Education of the San Diego Unified School District. Program Specialist of Arts, Media and Entertainment for SDUSD. College, Career and Technical education project lead for Arts, Media and Entertainment construction of Proposition 1D facilities. Member of the California State Advisory board for Arts, Media and Entertainment for Connect ED. Education and communication consultant to the American Institutes for Research for projects with the Bill and Malinda Gates Foundation. Communications consultant for Arts, Media and Entertainment and cross-industy application of new business development

VERN MALEC (clarinet)

Principal clarinet at Lane Technical School (Chicago) and New Mexico State University. Soloist NMSU and leader of the NMSU Dance Band. Current1y a member of Coastal Communities Concert Band, Coastal Cities Jazz Band, Clarinet Marmalade Quartet. Coaches clarinet and saxophone at various North County Schools.

CYNTHIA McGREGOR (horn)

Dr. Cynthia McGregor received her PhD in Music Theory at Northwestern
University, which is also where she completed her Masters in Music with a
major in Horn Performance. Dr. McGregor has performed in orchestras in the
midwest, California and Mexico. While in the midwest, she held permanent
positions as principal horn in the Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra, Northbrook
Symphony Orchestra, and second horn in Kenosha Symphony. As a sub, she
played in many orchestras including - but not limited to - Green Bay
Symphony, Rockford Symphony, Lake Forest Symphony. While in graduate school
at Northwestern, she performed in the Chicago Civic Orchestra under the
baton of Solti, Barenboim and Boulez.
Since living in the San Diego area, Dr. McGregor continues to be an active
freelance musician. In addition, she is currently co-principal in the La
Jolla Symphony and has been active as a recitalist throughout the area.
As a horn instructor, Dr. McGregor's students have been very successful with
honor band placements as well as college admissions. Some of her students
have continued on to be music majors at the finest conservatories in the
country.

JIM PEA (Tuba Jim )

Retired biology teacher. Tubist with San Diego City Guard Band and Hillcrest Wind Emsemble. Alumni SDSU Marching Aztecs

JOSH PROUT

A Native San Diegan, Josh is the Instrumental Music Director at Lewis Middle School where he teaches band, orchestra and jazz. He received a B.A. in Music and his teaching credential from Point Loma Nazarene University where he studied woodwinds with Peter DeLuke, Cory Homnick, Bob Ramsey. Active member in CMEA, SCSBOA, and CBDA.

DAN NELSON (band clinician/trumpet)

Crescendo Award for Outstanding Music Educator (Point Lorna High School Band Boosters). Studies Mid-America Nazarene University and the University of Minnesota. Completed Ph.D. Director of Instrumental Studies at Point Lorna Nazarene University where his program has grown to a 70 piece Concert Band, two jazz bands and a number of small ensembles. Dr. Nelson and one of his jazz bands traveled to Cuba in December 2005 to an International Jazz festival. Dr. Nelson has just returned from a singing tour of Europe with the La Jolla Presbyterian Church. Serves as Vice-President of California Music Educators/Southern Border Section. Voted “Educator of the Year” by CMEA/SBS. Hosts Peninsula Bands in Concert. Dan has recently returned from a mission trip to Rawanda. In 2006 he toured Europe, singing with the La Jolla Presbyterian Church Choir.

FRANK NELSON (Composer in Residence and trumpet)

BA Music Whittier College 1940. Played and arranged for Navy Bands, Alvino Rey’s Big Band. Arranged for Benny Carter. Began school band composition in the ’70’s. Trumpet coach at Oak Park and various North County Schools. Plays and arranges for Coastal Communities Concert Band, which played on the French Riviera in 2003.

DEBORAH NEVIN

Deborah Nevin has been a band director for more than 25 years. Currently she is the head of instrumental music at the new Lincoln High School Center For The Arts in San Diego. Ms. Nevin earned her bachelor’s degree in music education from the University of Arizona and her Master’s degree from the American Band College in Ashland Oregon. She has been voted teacher of the year numerous times and was named Instrumental Music Teacher of the Year in San Diego in 2006. She is the current instrumental representative for California Music Educators Association southern border section.

DEB O'NEIL.

Mr. Pulverenti graduated Valedictorian of his class in 2002 from Canastota Jr./Sr. High School in the central region of New York State. He earned his Bachelor of Music degree from the Setnor School of Music at Syracuse University in Music Education with Performance Honors/Percussion Emphasis in May of 2006 and moved to the state of California three months later. Brad holds a California Preliminary Single Subject Teaching Credential in Music and a New York State Teaching Certificate in Music, Levels K - 12 Initial. As Director of Instrumental Music at James Madison High School in the San Diego Unified School District for the past year and a half, Mr. Pulverenti has continued the rebuilding process of the band program there, bringing his concert band back to the spring festival stage after years of absence and helping to facilitate various community music opportunities including the formation of a cluster jazz ensemble. He is excited about the addition of an orchestral music class to the Madison curriculum, which will begin in the fall of 2008. Brad is a Brother of Kappa Kappa Psi - National Honorary Fraternity for College Bandmembers, and a member of the Percussive Arts Society, National Association for Music Education (NEMC), Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association, and National Education Association.

DELL SCHROEDER (woodwinds)

BME Converse College and Florida State University, MA San Diego State University. National Music Camp at Interlochen, Michigan. Co-founder Peninsula Bands in Concert. Founder of the Peninsula Wind Ensemble, Sing for the Cure, Band at the Beach, and FIoot Troop”. Founder Warren Walker Middle School Band. Toured Europe with the San Diego Concert Band and has appeared as a soloist with them. Member of the Full Bar Saxophone Quartet. Describes herself as “instrument qualified” and “a mouthy advocate for music in our schools and neighborhoods”. Headquarters for Band at the Beach is the Schroeder’s garage.

KEN SEGUINE (Tuba)

Tuba player since 1962 born and raised in Staten Island New York.
New Dorp High School Band (Class Of 1962)
Staten Island Symphony
South Shore Concert Band
US Navy Retired 23 Years Service (Postal Clerk E-9)
Living In San Diego for the past 30 years, affiliated with the following musical groups:
Principal Tubist San Diego Mid City Chamber Orchestra
Tubist San Diego City Guard Band
Tubist San Diego Concert Band
Member: Americas Finest City Dixieland Jazz Society

RUSS SPERLING

Director of Visual and Performing Arts, Sweetwater Union High School District. Former Band Director at Helix Charter High School, tripling enrollment in Band and Orchestra, and touring Europ[e 3 times. BA (Cal Poly/SLO), Masters in Educational Leadership(PLNU), Masters in Music Performance/Conducting(SDSU), Twice named CMEA Band Director of the year. Current President of California Music Educators/Southern Border Section. Field and Parade Adjudicator for Southern California School Band and Orchestra Association. In his free time, conducts Grossmont College Band.

LOUISE TITLOW (trombone/euphonium)

Point Loma Native. Graduate Eastman School of Music. Has performed with the San Diego Opera Orchestra, the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, La Jolla Playhouse, Lyric Opera of San Diego, Starlight theatre. She also appears with Velvet Bones, Classic Brass and various other brass quintets. Louise teaches privately and coaches low brass in various North County Schools.

DON SWALL (trombone/baritone)

BA (Business), University of Colorado, Golden Buffalo Marching Band Alumnus, US Navy Reserves. San Diego City Guard Band. Veterans of Memorial Center Band. Manager: Ariso Wind Quintet. Director Optimist Youth Band. Owner Swall Financial Services. Featured in SD Union-Tribune’s “Community Solutions” column. Optimist Youth Band Headquarters. . . Mr. Swall’s garage. Don was the manager of the Arioso Wind Quintet.

DON VONK (percussion)

Percussionist Marin Youth Orchestra (third place World Youth Festival, Vienna Austria). Selected as one of three percussionists to the All-World Percussion Section. Lead snare drummer on drum line, Marching Aztecs, touring Japan with SDSU Band and football team.. Drum coach Valhalla High School. Cofounder and drummer for Dr. Feelgood and the Interns of Love, a internationally popular Rhythm and Blues Band. Currently CPA at Considine and Considine, La Mesa.

RICHARD WARNOCK (Bassoon)

San Diego State University Bands, Associate Conductor, San Diego City Guard Band, Conductor, Optimist Youth Band. Member, San Diego Concert Band, Filarrnónica Uniao Portuguesa de San Diego and Filarrnónica do Artesia D.E.S. Pipe Band instructor, Helix High School (1976-1986).

DANETTE WHITE (Bassoon)

Bachelors in Music Education Minnesota State, Moorhead.
Continued studies at Music Academy of the West.
Masters Degree in Bassoon, University of Michigan.
Featured soloist with Grossmont Symphony and TICO Orchestra.
Substitute bassoonist with all major musical organizations in San Diego.
Former school instrumental teacher including San Diego Unified.
Former woodsind coach at Mar Vista Middle School.
Adjunct faculty member at Pt. Loma Nazarene University and Mira Costa College.
Memberships include Music Teachers' Association of Claifornia, the International.
Double Reed Society, and the American Federation of Musicians.

BETSY WILLIAMS (percussion)

Calif. Western University. Teacher and librarian experience in Phoenix. Currently a travel agent. American Association of University Women. San Diego City Guard Baud. “Number one Band Mom for Optimist” Youth Band.

DIANE WILSON (piano and flute)

AA in Music from Grossmont College. Has been piano accompanist for junior high school choruses and instrumentalists, and flutist in La Jolla Civic Orchestra and Grossmont Symphony Orchestra. Is principal flute for San Diego Concert Band. Founding member of SilverWood, a versatile music ensemble. Teaches privately, flute and piano.

DR. ELENA YARRITU (flute)

Currently enjoys a varied career as a freelance flutist, teacher and performing artist. Living in San Diego, California, she teaches privately in the Carmel Valley area and coaches aspiring flute students of all ages and levels.
Yarritu has been a guest artist at the National Flute Association Convention, and the Texas Flute Society's Annual Flute Festival in 2007 as winner for the 2006 Myrna Brown Competition. Highlights of Yarritu's career include a 2003 New York premier of Mike Mower's Sonata No. 3 at Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall sponsored by Artists International Presentations, a Merkin Hall debut in 2006 with the Alma Ensemble presenting Samuel Zyman's Sonata for flute and piano. Yarritu has also performed as a solo recitalist and chamber musician in Europe including France, Scandinavia, The Netherlands and places as far away as Estonia and Moldova. In 2002, Yarritu was featured soloist with the National Philharmonic of Moldova in a performance of Mozart's Flute concerto in D. Yarritu is also a regular guest lecturer and performer at many colleges and universities throughout the United States. Years of devotion educating young musicians, has culminated in an annual summer master class for advanced high school and college level students in beautiful Saratoga, California. Yarritu has earned degrees from San Jose State University, Yale University and Stony Brook University. Former mentors include Carol Wincenc, Jill Felber, Isabelle Chapuis-Starr, Ransom Wilson, Alain Marion, Lloyd Gowen, and Bart Feller. www.elenayarritu.com