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Director of Bands
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Ms. Kathleen Schoelwer
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Ms. Schoelwer is a native of Arlington, Virginia and graduated from James Madison University with a Bachelors of Music. While there, she was a Drum Major of the Marching Royal Dukes and president of the JMU chapter of the Music Educator's National Conference. Under her leadership the chapter broke state membership records and won two out of three National Chapter of Excellence awards, out of a pool of nearly two thousand other chapters.
Prior to coming to the Pride of Herndon, Ms. Schoelwer spent four years as the Director of Bands at Courtland High School. Under her direction, the Courtland Band has been a Virginia Honor Band and a Blue Ribbon School. The Symphonic Band has earned consistent Superior Ratings at District Festival in Grade VI music, and students have annually been accepted to the All-Virginia State Band and the Governor's School for the Performing Arts. Ms. Schoelwer has received a Presidential Citation from the Virginia Department of Education and was Courtland's New Teacher of the year in 2005.
Ms. Schoelwer has conducted all of Courtland's musicals, run the jazz band, the percussion ensembles and the flute choir. She also founded and sponsored the school's Tri-M Music Honors Society chapter. In the summer of 2008, Ms. Schoelwer conducted an Honor Band consisting of students from all along the East coast with American Music Abroad on their European tour.
Kathleen can be reached at Director@HerndonBand.org.
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MARCHING STAFF
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In addition to our Director, the Pride of Herndon is fortunate to have an excellent Marching Staff that is responsible for putting the show on the field and ensuring a successful season.
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The Pride of Herndon 2009 Marching Staff
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Color Guard and Visual Design
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Mr. Lindell Palmer
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Mr. Palmer has been involved in the color guard activity for over fourteen years. He began performing with the Park View High School Color Guard of South Hill, VA and later marched Revelation Winter Guard of Richmond, VA (WGI A-Class Finalist 2000). He has served as the director of the Stonewall Jackson Winter Guard Ensemble (AIA A3 Gold Medalist 2008) and as a choreographer for Chantilly High School (AIA A3 Bronze Medalist 2007). In addition, Mr. Palmer has been a staff member of Herndon's own Act 1 Winter Guard (WGI A-Class Finalist 2006) since 2005 when the organization began. He has also served as an adjudicator for the DC Dixie Classic Music Festival and has worked on the design team of numerous guard programs across Virginia.
Mr. Palmer received his Bachelor of Arts from The College of William and Mary and his Master of Fine Arts from American University. He resides in Northern Virginia and teaches Creative Writing and AP Literature at Fauquier High School.
Lindell can be reached at DirectorGuard@HerndonBand.org.
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Marching Techs
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Mr. Bradley M. Johnson
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Mr. Johnson has been a part of the Herndon band community since he completed his student teaching working with the Herndon concert bands in 2000. For the past eight years, Mr. Johnson has served as a band staff member for the Pride of Herndon marching band. He is currently an instrumental music teacher for Arlington Public Schools in Virginia, where he serves Abingdon, Ashlawn, and Barcroft Elementary Schools, and this year will be the conductor of the Arlington County Junior Honors Band and Orchestra (4-6). He is also a choir member and conductor of the orchestral ensemble for The Church of the Epiphany, Herndon. When possible, Mr. Johnson also takes advantage of opportunities to play the French horn as soloist or in ensembles.
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Mr. Brett Lemley
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Mr. Lemley is an accomplished jazz musician who has worked with the Herndon Band for several years. In addition to teaching the Jazz Ensemble class, he assists with the Pride of Herndon Marching Band, drawing on his experience as a member of the world class DCI corps The Cadets. When not with Herndon, Mr. Lemley as a professor as Shepherd College where he runs jazz ensembles and teaches theory and private lessons. Mr. Lemley also performs on trumpet in the jazz band Blue Sky 5.
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Mr. Steven Jacoby
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Mr. Jacoby is the band director at Woodbridge Middle School in Prince William County. He is a graduate of West Chester University, where he was both drumline captain and then drum major of the “Incomparable” Golden Rams Marching Band. After college Mr. Jacoby was the band director at Pope John XXIII Regional High School, where, under his tutelage, the Concert Band received “Superior” ratings at band festivals. Mr. Jacoby taught was on the marching band staff for eight years at Vernon Township High School as percussion instructor and arranger, drill tech, and assistant band director. Mr. Jacoby has played with the Ridgewood Concert Band (soloists included Joe Alessi, Alan Baer, and Phil Smith) and is now a member of the Fairfax Wind Symphony.
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Percussion Techs
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Mr. Mike Robson
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While in high school in Waynesboro, PA, Mike was involved in marching band, indoor drumline, indoor guard and served as a concert band student conductor. After high school Mike attended James Madison University and performed with the Marching Royal Dukes. Mike is currently Drill Sergeant in the US Army, is an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, and is in Iraq on a year-long deployment. He can be reached via email at mwrobson@yahoo.com or snail mail at SGT Michael Robson, HQ, USF-I (PMO), APO-AE 09342. Please reach out and say "hey" to Mike when you have a spare moment. He is expected back in the States this August.
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Woodwinds Techs
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Ms. Deni Cunningham
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Mrs. Cunningham is a former member of the Pride of Herndon graduating in 1997. She studied flute with Judith Lapple through high school and while at George Mason University where she received her Bachelor of Music in 2001. Mrs. Cunningham has been a private flute teacher in the Herndon Pyramid for the last 15 years and maintains an active studio today. She was a marching band staff member for the HHS band 1998-2006 running the flute/piccolo section and also working as a full-time field/marching technician. For the last nine years, Mrs. Cunningham has directed the Cadet Band at the Franklin Band and Orchestra Camp where she had also served as the flute instructor and the woodwind sectional teacher. This is Mrs. Cunningham's ninth year as a Fairfax County Public School elementary band director. She has taught band in several Herndon/Reston area schools including Armstrong ES. This year she will be teaching band at Floris ES, Lake Anne ES, and Waples Mill ES. Mrs. Cunningham resides in Bluemont, VA with Mr. Cunningham, baby Joelle, and their six dogs.
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Ms. Sharon Bonneau
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Ms. Bonneau is in her tenth year as the Director of Bands at Herndon Middle School. Prior to arriving at Herndon Middle, Ms. Bonneau was a member of the United States Air Force Concert Band for nine years. During that time, she was a featured soloist with the band’s Dixieland group, was a guest conductor of and soloist with the Concert Band, and performed with the Air Force Chamber Players and Symphony Orchestra. While with the United States Air Force Band, Ms. Bonneau toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and performed at numerous music conventions. She was appointed to the position of Adjunct Professor of Clarinet at George Mason University in 1995 and continues to teach clarinet there.
In 1987, Ms. Bonneau graduated from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where she received her Bachelor of Music degree with a dual major in Clarinet Performance and Instrumental Music Education. While at Eastman, she participated in the CBS Masterworks Grammy Award-winning recording of Carnaval, featuring Wynton Marsalis and the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and in the group’s subsequent tour of Eastern North America and Canada. In 1995, she completed a Master of Arts Degree in Conducting at George Mason University. Currently Ms. Bonneau is a member of the Fairfax Wind Symphony, and her professional affiliations include the Music Educator’s National Conference, the Virginia Music Educators Association, the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association, and the Women Band Directors International Association. She is an active adjudicator and clinician, and is a staff member at several local summer music camps.
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Mr. Jake McCray
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A native of Fairfax, VA, Mr. McCray is a member of The United States Air Force Band in Washington, D.C., as a member of the concert band. He joined the USAF Band in 1998 after two years at George Mason University where he was studying music education. In 2007 he graduated with a B.A. in Music. As a member of the concert band and saxophone quartet, Jake has toured throughout 46 states within the country, performing at major music conventions, some of the nation’s most notable and revered concert halls, and has performed with numerous world-famous guest artists. Jake currently lives in Burke, VA, where he maintains and active, private teaching studio.
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Brass Techs
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Mr. Chris Cunningham
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Mr. Cunningham is a full time music teacher at Herndon High School. He began working with The Pride while teaching at several feeder elementary schools, and soon became a full time band director at Herndon HS. He created the guitar program here at Herndon, and now teaches five classes of guitar full time. His ensembles have earned consistent “superior” ratings and first place rankings in all competitions.
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Mr. Jon Schiffler
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Mr. Schiffler joined the Herndon High School Band Staff in the 2009 marching season. He holds a Bachelors of Music degree from James Madison University and a Masters of Music Education degree from Old Dominion University. While in graduate school, Mr. Schiffler was the director of the Old Dominion University Pep Band. He also performed with the Virginia Wind Symphony, Virginia Beach Symphony, and ODU’s Jazz Ensemble and Wind Ensemble. He has participated in conducting symposiums at Northwestern University and ODU. Mr. Schiffler served three years as the Band Director and Music Department Chair at Archbishop Carroll High School in Washington, DC before accepting his current position as a Content Producer for Real Networks in Reston, VA. He resides with his wife and three dogs in South Riding.
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Updated 09/04/2010
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