Conductors !Celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year, the SCCB was established by Dana Demant, Bill Morrisette, and Gene Slayter. We have presented many free Concerts in the Parks in both Springfield and Eugene, performed at Springfield’s Filbert Festival and Christmas Parade. We have held an annual Children’s Concert, and been the opening act for a Fourth of July concert featuring “Riders in the Sky.” Our members range in age from 20 to over 80. Occupations of our members include teachers, retirees, stay-at-home moms, and local business owners. !!Dana Demant, the founding director of the SCCB, has been a music teacher in the Springfield School District for over 25 years. He is currently the band and

strings teacher at Agnes Stewart Middle School. Besides directing the SCCB, Dana also conducts the Eugene/Springfield Junior Orchestra. Dana has been happily married to Lauren Lindstrom for nearly 30 years and has two fabulous daughters, Jordan and Zoe—who are both hilarious!!!

Doug Doerfert, Director of Bands at Churchill High School, is in his first year at CHS.  Prior to teaching at Churchill High School, Douglas directed band programs at Manzano High School and Del Norte High School in Albuquerque, NM where he was also an active performer and clinician in the Albuquerque Metro region.  After moving to Eugene in June 2012, Douglas has continued to perform as a freelance trumpeter and provide brass clinics to schools in Eugene and its surrounding towns.  Douglas received his B.M.E from the University of Northern Colorado and his M.M. in Wind Conducting from the University of New Mexico.!!Tracy Ross taught band at Sheldon High school from 2001-2013 teaching Elements Jazz, Evolution

Jazz, Concert Band, Symphonic Band, Wind Ensemble, and Pep Band. Throughout the years, she also directed many of the school musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof, Beauty and Beast, Brigadoon" and many more.  ! Mrs. Ross recently left Sheldon to serve as the Sheldon Region Essential Skills Coordinator for Sheldon, Cal Young Middle School, and Monroe Middle School and is also the 4J Music Coordinator.!Mrs. Ross, a clarinet player, has also played with Eugene Symphonic Band for over 10 years. She has also served on the Oregon Music Educators Association state board for 15 years in numerous roles.!Her husband Jake plays the tuba in ESB, is an acoustic engineer and they have three boys; Nathan (10), Parker (8), and Nicholas (20 months).! Mrs. Ross joins the Willamette Valley Honor Band conducting team in 2014 to bring her teaching expertise to the group.!!Patrick Dixon has been teaching music for the Crow School District since the Fall of 2000. He teaches all bands (including jazz), choir, and general music. Every other year he teaches College Now Music Appreciation for upperclassmen. In the past he has even taught middle and high school art.! Mr. Dixon is an Oregon native, and graduated from Redmond High School. He also has degrees from the University of Oregon, University of North Texas, and Yale University. Before he was a full time music teacher he worked as a professional performing musician, playing bass trombone for both classical orchestras and jazz bands, as well as a soloist and on a number of different recordings. He has also taught at the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, and at the Oregon Festival of American Music. ! Mr. Dixon is married to Elizabeth Hoffman, flute instructor for Lane Community College.!

!! !Sunday, March 2, 2014 • 5:00 P.M. !

Springfield High School Auditorium

UPCOMING EVENTS: American Band College Directors' Bands!! Thursday, June 26 • 7:30 P.M. • Ginger Rogers Craterian Theatre (Medford, OR)!! Friday, July 4 • 8:00 P.M. • Ashland High School Stadium (Ashland, OR)!!Western International Band Clinic (for Honor Band Students & Band Directors)!! Friday, November 21 - Monday, November 24 (Seattle, WA)!

ABC Tickets & WIBC Information, visit: www.bandworld.org or call (541) 778-4880

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!! !Monday, March 3, 2014

7:00 P.M. !Churchill High School

Auditorium

Program (Sunday, March 2nd Concert)

Springfield Community Concert Band Dana Demant & Pat Dixon, Conductors !

Sound Off............................................................John Philip Sousa

Die Meistersinger.................................................Wagner/Osterling

Galop Shostakovich................................Trans. Donald Hunsberger

___________________________________________________________ !(Monday, March 3rd Concert)

Churchill Wind Ensemble Doug Doerfert, Conductor !

E Pluribus Unum.............................................................Fred Jewell arr. Andrew Glover

And Hold in Memory................................................Johnnie Vinson

A Tribute to Grainger.................................Percy Aldridge Grainger arr. Chalon L. Ragsdale

HORNSophie Apgar Sheldon High School** Anneleissa Coen Springfield High SchoolAngelica Johnson Springfield High School* James Valenzuela Churchill High School

TROMBONE * Ben Heiner South Eugene High SchoolTrevor Hillderbrandt Springfield High SchoolSomer Joe Hornbuckle South Eugene High SchoolHailey Kjeldgaard Thurston High School

EUPHONIUM * Evan Agnew Springfield High School Casey Doe South Eugene High School !TUBA Jacob Bryant Sheldon High SchoolAlton Hernandez Sheldon High SchoolJames Watts Pleasant Hill High School

PERCUSSION Donald Inglese Thurston High SchoolEmily Locke North Eugene High SchoolThomas Miller Sheldon High School(b) * Dustin Nagy Springfield High School* Participant three years (2012-2014)** Participant ALL four years (2011-2014)(b) Band Council

Scott McKee assumed the full-time position of Managing Director of the American Band College and the Organizing Director of the Western International Band Clinic in August of 2002. He is also the Associate Editor of Bandworld Magazine (online). Scott is a native of Southern Oregon were he attended Ashland High School and played on the first AHS football team to win the state championship in 1989.! He received his Bachelor's Degree from Southern Oregon University and his Master’s Degree from the American Band College. He taught seven years in the public schools of Oregon (Scappoose and Springfield), where the concert bands were selected for the state band championships every year they competed. ! Scott is the Organizing Director of Western International Band Clinic. In addition to WIBC logistics, he is also the Managing Director of the American Band College and on the WIBC Board of Directors (WIBC, Inc.). He is the founder and director of the Willamette Valley Honor Band, now in its eighth year. Scott is also the co-founder of an international honor band exchange program (Australia and USA) called the Pacific Honours Ensemble Program. Since 2002, he has guest conducted/adjudicated bands in the Northwest, parts of Europe and Australia. He is an elected Associate Member of the prestigious American Bandmasters Association and serves as vice-chair of the Associates Committee. Locally, he serves as a board member of the Springfield Wildish Theater.! Scott, his wife, Stacy Swartout-McKee (choir director at Springfield H.S.), and their five children; Dennis, Tanner, Kelsie, Kamryn and Payton, live in the Willamette Valley area.

Acknowledgements: Chris Holt (Springfield Director & use of facilities), Tess Murrell (Sheldon Director), Steve Robare (S. Eugene Director), Doug Doerfert (Churchill Director), Rick Delph (N. Eugene Director), Tim Vian (Thurston Director), Bart Ellis (Willamette Director), Jonathan Light (Pleasant Hill Director), and Stacy, Dennis, Tanner, Kelsie, Kamryn and Payton.

The Willamette Valley Honor Band and W.I.B.C, Inc.!The Willamette Valley Honor Band is presented to Willamette Valley band students by Scott McKee and the Western International Band Clinic, Inc. This non-profit corporation also produces the Western International Band Clinic for honor band students and band directors (held in Seattle, Washington every November), the American Band College Masters Degree program, and Bandworld Online Magazine (an international online band magazine designed to help band directors and their students). If your son or daughter is interested in auditioning for the 36th WIBC, have them see their band director, or visit the WIBC website (www.bandworld.org/wibc) for more information. Students can download audition materials, see pictures from past honor band conventions, and apply for the 36th convention, which will take place November 21-24, 2014 in Seattle, Washington.!

Don't Miss the Western International Band Clinic (with special guests)!!!! ! ! !

Willamette Valley Honor Band Scott McKee & Tracy Ross, Conductors

Song and Dance.................................................. Richard Saucedo Pirates! ...................................................................... Travis Weller

I. Raising the Jolly Roger II. False Colors III. Celebrating Tortuga

Songs of Old Kentucky............................................... Brant Karrick Irish Trilogy................................................. Seiber/arr. Larry Daehn

I. Reel II. Ayre III. Jig

Whip and Spur............................................. Allen/arr. Ray Cramer !Combined pieces with Springfield Community Concert Band, Mar. 2: Song for the Earth................................................... James Curnow Bugler’s Holiday............. Leroy Anderson/arr. by Michael Edwards

Willamette Valley Honor Band!FLUTE Kaela Childers Churchill High School (b) Katelynd Estess Thurston High School Daniella Maldonado Sheldon High School Madison Ramberg Springfield High School Melinda Jones Pleasant Hill High School !OBOE Allison Lindgren Sheldon High SchoolHailey Schug Willamette High School

CLARINET(b) Thomas Meinzen North Eugene High School(b) Elizabeth Nunneley Thurston High SchoolClaire Petitt North Eugene High SchoolAnna Phillips Sheldon High School

BASS CLARINETKareem Khalifch Willamette High School

ALTO SAXOPHONE Alanna Ramberg Springfield High SchoolRosemarie Thomas Sheldon High SchoolDaniel Wade North Eugene High SchoolTyee Williams North Eugene High SchoolTENOR SAXOPHONE* Leah Cowan Sheldon High SchoolIsaac Ellister Agnes Stewart M.S.* A.J. Glessner North Eugene High SchoolRachel Hill Sheldon High SchoolSean Thorne North Eugene High School

BARITONE SAXOPHONE * Abigail Slover Springfield High SchoolMaddison Vanis Pleasant Hill High School

TRUMPETAbbigail Hepperle Springfield High SchoolBlake Holcomb Sheldon High School** Benjamin MacArthur South Eugene High School* Ryan Mitchell Sheldon High SchoolAbby Olivera North Eugene High SchoolAlvaro Sanchez Springfield High SchoolAndrew Shoop Willamette High SchoolFontayne Thompson Sheldon High School** Jackson Walters Pleasant Hill High SchoolLily Wheeler Springfield High School

Robert W. Smith (composer/conductor)

Tim Lautzenheiser (conductor)

David Holsinger (composer/conductor)

Springfield Community Concert Band Dana Demant & Pat Dixon, Conductors

TENOR SAXOPHONE Tom Adams Dick Flomer Nancy Koll !TRUMPET Karyn Aho Barry Barreau Terri Christensen Les Dos Reis David Holmes Emily MacKenzie !HORN Anna Lind Ellen Otani Carole Quattrone !TROMBONE Sarah Middleton Steven Stermer !EUPHONIUM Gail Goshert Cathy Gray Jeff Turay !TUBA Ally House George Walker !PERCUSSION Anthony Castro !!

PICCOLO Chris Wesely !FLUTE Paris Black Mary Borns Mary Ann Clappison Bev Lenhart Chris Wesely Rachel White !OBOE Chuck Tannenbaum !CLARINET Jean Blankenship Kim Clark Jane Dodds Kevin Heikkila Pat Holme Richard Johnson Lauren Lindstrom Virgil Schulenberg Roy Wheng Kenzie Wolf !BASS CLARINET Connie Berglund !ALTO SAXOPHONE Dwight Foster Ellyn Holmes Bob Tearse Chad Wright !

FLUTE Selena Blick Jasmine Marach Dylan Ford Autumn Griffin Kaela Childers Sierra Stanley Averie Friedman Emily Rogers !CLARINET Morgan Duxbury James Tong Betty Sampedro Celia Moyer Adrian Sampedro Cruz Erin Kirkman Jacob Gibbs Gavin Lambert !BASS CLARINET Aaron Reynolds !BASSOON Ben Hawley-Gamer !ALTO SAXOPHONE Delila Rich Carla Herrera Brian Papendieck Aja Rountree !TENOR SAXOPHONE Austin Lanier

BARITONE SAXOPHONE Troy Clenenden !TRUMPET Jonathan Chen Ben Lindner Evan Trox Josh Jones-Carlson Alexander Cordova !HORN James Valenzuela Sullivan Friedman Gabriel Peterson-Degroff !TROMBONE Keith Faught Dylan Whitney !EUPHONIUM Aidan Hoyle Tristan Garrick !TUBA Alex Kanning !PERCUSSION Jacob Calhoon Abi Cole Alistair Gilchrist Noah Polacek Faith Rousseau Isaac Whiteman

Churchill High School Wind Ensemble Doug Doerfert, Conductor