Mi Band 3 App 2024
Tanja Freeze
The Bama Works Fund supports charitable programs primarily in the Charlottesville, VA area but has also responded to a wide variety of needs both nationally and internationally. Along with Dave Matthews Band and its members, the fund has raised over $65M and made over 2600 grants.
DMB is committed to sustainable touring in partnership with Reverb, protecting the environment and combating climate change. The band has partnered with the The Nature Conservancy to plant a million trees a year since 2020, totaling almost 4 million trees.
Entrance into the Honors Concert Band is based on high school director recommendation and all names must be submitted by director and not by student. Entrance into the Honors Wind Ensemble will be based on a personal application and audition recording submitted by each musician.
This elite ensemble of 50-60 musicians is open to all high school band members grades 9-12 and will be selected through application and recorded audition. The Honors Wind Ensemble conductor will be Bobby Francis, Director of Bands at Texas Christian University.
The BAND Conference is a four-day event at a family-friendly location that will include presentations by national and local experts in the fields of epilepsy, neurology, psychiatry, and neuropsychology. The 2024 BAND Conference will be held at the beautiful Sun Valley Resort in Sun Valley, Idaho. In addition to ample networking opportunities provided by the conference, the Resort offers excellent outdoor recreation including world class skiing, luxurious spa, snowshoeing, ice skating, sleigh rides, outdoor heated pools, restaurants, shopping, and other outdoor recreational activities.
After a short intermission and set change from the colorful, psychedelic Jefferson Starship backdrop to a cowboy stagecoach image befitting the country adjacent sound, it was time for The Marshall Tucker Band to take the stage. Named after a man named Marshall Tucker, a blind piano tuner in South Carolina who signed his name on one of the pianos in the studio where the band rehearsed (Tucker passed away in 2023 at the age of 99) these southern rockers were much less familiar to me than Starship, but once again, the crowd clearly loved them.
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We invite high school students from throughout the region (South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and North Dakota) to apply to participate in the fourth annual Honor Band Festival, to be held on Feb. 23-24, 2024. The SDSU Honor Band Festival is designed to be an exceptional honor band experience for talented students and is sure to be a memorable time for all those involved!
Students who play the following instruments are invited to apply: piccolo, flute, oboe, bassoon, B-flat clarinet, bass clarinet, contrabass clarinet, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, French horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, bass trombone, euphonium, tuba, string bass and percussion (mallet, battery/auxiliary and timpani). String bass and piano auditions will also be considered, depending on repertoire selected by the conductors.
There is NO application fee! Students selected to the group will be charged a $30 participation fee (payable either by the individual student or their school). Student participants are responsible for securing their own accommodations and transportation for the duration of the festival; however, select meals will be provided.
Benjamin Lorenzo is an associate professor of music and the director of bands at Kent State University's Glauser School of Music where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, teaches conducting and provides leadership for university bands. Previously, he served as associate director of bands and director of athletic bands at the University of Arkansas where he led the Razorback Marching Band and Wind Symphony. Before this appointment, Lorenzo held positions at Oklahoma State and Texas Tech University. His teaching experience also includes high schools in Florida and Texas.
Passionate about wind bands in Latin America, Lorenzo has worked with musicians in Mexico, Panama, Peru, Colombia and the Dominican Republic. He has also conducted bands in Kuala Lumpur and was a clinician for the Malaysian Band Directors Association Conducting Workshop. Additional experience abroad includes guest conducting the World Youth Wind Orchestra Project (WYWOP) in Schladming, Austria. Lorenzo remains active as an adjudicator, conductor, and clinician throughout the United States and has conducted professional ensembles such as the West Point Academy Band.
Committed to amplifying diverse voices, Lorenzo serves on the advisory board of the Music Education Alliance, which sponsors the William P. Foster project, an initiative of CBDNA, Music For All and the National Band Association, focused on supporting bands in historically underserved and under-resourced communities. Additionally, he chairs the Diversity Committee for CBDNA and is a member of Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Fraternity, Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Service Sorority, and Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity.
Lorenzo holds the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees in Wind Conducting from The University of Texas at Austin under the tutelage of Jerry Junkin. He received a Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone Performance from Florida International University, studying with Mark Hetzler. A native of Havana, Cuba, he is a proud alumnus of Miami-Dade County Public Schools, where he began his teaching career.
The West Virginia University Invitational High School Honor Bands is a two-day event for high school band students. Selected students are placed into one of three clinic bands based on a brief audition held at the beginning of the event. These bands rehearse throughout the two days of the clinic and present a final performance on Saturday. In addition to working with outstanding nationally-known conductors, students are treated to a performance by the WVU Wind Symphony and also have the opportunity to participate in masterclasses offered by members of the WVU School of Music faculty.
Individual students are nominated by their band directors and are selected for participation by the WVU Bands staff based on musical achievement, director recommendation, and the instrumentation needs of the clinic bands. Nomination information is mailed to high school band directors in November each year. Interested students should speak with their high school band director.
All Alumni Band concerts are free, non-ticketed events, with no reserved seating, all ages welcome. Performances are traditionally held either in the Daines Concert Hall or on the Quad east of Old Main starting at 7 pm.
The USU Summer Alumni Band consists of over 300 alumni of the band program at USU who continue to perform seriously following graduation, many as professional musicians or music teachers. In addition, a few talented students are invited to play, as are USU music department faculty members. Each concert features 45-60 of these Aggie musicians, all of whom donate their services and travel. The personnel changes for each concert depending on musical needs and summer travel schedules of band members.
The Band presents five concerts each summer. It is only due to the outstanding talent of these musicians that each concert can be presented with only a single rehearsal on the day of the performance. During the rehearsal, the dedicated professionals of Caine College of the Arts Production Services are responsible for logistics, including sound reinforcement, transportation, and turning the USU Quad into one of the most pleasant outdoor venues in the region for each concert.
The band has performed at the Taggart Student Center, in the Kent Concert Hall, and in the Old Main Amphitheatre. The Quad east of Old Main has been its home for the last decade. In the 2015 season, the band performed with the American Festival Chorus at Sun Valley Pavilion.
Since the band is composed largely of public school band teachers, it provides an excellent networking resource for Department of Music students and faculty members, which results in enhanced placement opportunities for music education majors in the band area. Due, in part, to these alumni connections, the department has had 100% placement of music education students actively seeking jobs since 1992.
Band members and friends of the band have donated over $70,000 to the Max F. Dalby Fund for the Advancement of the Band Program, an endowment used to support the professional development of music education students in the band area.
The Mid-Atlantic Honor Band at Shenandoah Conservatory brings together talented musicians from the entire Mid-Atlantic region to participate in intensive ensemble playing and masterclass sessions. Students and teachers interact with a featured guest composer, special guest clinicians and Shenandoah Conservatory faculty.
Students must be nominated for inclusion in the Mid-Atlantic Honor Band by their high school directors. Shenandoah faculty will review the nominations after the deadline and all nominated students will be notified of the outcome of the nomination and selection process by Monday, December 9, 2024. There is an $100 registration fee for invited students, which covers lunch and dinner as well as activities for the weekend. Students will receive information on how to process payment once they have registered.
Saturday will feature a number of exciting clinics presented by the guest composer, guest military musicians and Shenandoah faculty oriented toward personal development. We offer certificates of participation for use with your school district toward reaccreditation. While clinics will all be scheduled on Saturday, teachers are heartily invited to attend any other rehearsals and events through the weekend.
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