| Dana Telsrow
Year in School: Freshman Equipment: Miraphone 186 Career Goals: As a career I'd like to get a day gig playing tuba and a night gig playing guitar in a progressive rock band. Fun Fact #1: I have been playing guitar in rock bands since my freshman year of high school. Fun Fact #2: I used to have long hair and I have a unisex name. I was often mistaken for a woman.
| | | Ben Anderson
Year in School: Junior Equipment: Yamaha YFB-621
Career Goals:
Fun Fact #1:
Fun Fact #2: | | | Pat Bigsby
Year in School: Senior
Major: Journalism/Tuba Performance
Equipment: Miraphone 186-4V-CC
Hometown: Ashland, MA
Career Goals: Jam
Fun Fact #1: His truck's name is Sonya
Fun Fact #2: Is obsessed with Clint Eastwood
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| | | Blaine Cunningham
Year in School: Second year DMA, Graduate Teaching Assistant for studio
Major: Tuba Performance
Equipment: Miraphone 1292 CC, Willson 3200 F, Giddings & Webster Alan Baer Mouthpiece
Hometown: Bryant, AR
Career Goals: To teach tuba/euphonium at the college level, and to continue performing
Fun Fact #1: President Bill Clinton once borrowed my dad's tenor sax to perform at an event in Little Rock
| | | Justin Plasket
Year in School: Junior
Major: Music Education
Equipment: Besson Sovereign, Schilke 51D
Hometown: Fort Belvoir, VA
Career Goals: High School Band Director
Fun Fact #1: I am a rabid college football fan who happens to like Texas AND Oklahoma
Fun Fact #2: I didn't watch children's television when I was a child
| | Karina Ferrera
Year in School: Junior
Major:
Equipment: Yamaha 842S, G&W Kadja
Hometown:
Career Goals: Teach/perform in a collegiate setting (but really, anything besides playing on the streets of Seattle to survive)
Fun Fact #1: Avid snowboarder/wakeskater
Fun Fact #2: I've over-dosed on children's medicine 3 times before the age of 7. Mmmm... Flinstones...
| | | Kristina Gavin
Year in School: Senior
Major: Music
Equipment: Yamaha 621 CC tuba, GW Baer mouthpiece, Mirafone F tuba
Hometown: Dubuque, IA
Career Goals: To become an English professor, writer, or maybe a librarian
Fun Fact #1: Hobbies include baking, disc golf, swimming, video games, reading, and making people laugh
Fun Fact #2: One of her life's goals is to be a contestant on Jeopardy
| | | Devin Jacobsen
Year in School: Sophomore
Major:
Equipment: 1291 Miraphone CC Tuba
Hometown:
Career Goals: I hope to become a high school band director and give private lessons. Fun Fact #1: My shoe size is 15 Fun Fact #2: I used to weight 345 pounds .
| | | Steven Neilssen
Year in School: Sophomore
Major:
Equipment: Yamaha YEP- 642, Yamaha 51L & Bach 6-1/2AL
Hometown:
Career Goals: High School Band director designing marching drill
Fun Fact #1: Favorite artist is Ozzy Osbourne
Fun Fact #2: Published Poet
| | | Tucker Brinkman
Year in School: Freshman Major: Equipment: Miraphone 1291 B-flat, Miraphone Mouthpiece Hometown: Career Goals: Fun Fact #1: I ran cross country half my junior and all my senior year of high school Fun Fact #2: Im a country kinda guy. | | | Ben Reid
Year in School: Freshman Major: Equipment: Yamaha 842S Compensating Euphonium with a Schilke 51D mouthpiece Hometown: Career Goals: To be a band director Fun Fact #1: Ive been to Atlantic Beach in North Carolina Fun Fact #2: I love the show House
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| Michael Hart
Year in School: First year DMA Major: Conducting Candidate Equipment: St. Petersburg CC tuba, Willson E-flat Hometown: Career Goals: Fun Fact #1: Fun Fact #2: |
FORMER STUDENTS:
Dodzi Dzakuma, tuba - Member through Fall 2004
Amy Letcher, euphonium - Graduated Fall 2004, currently student teaching
Greg Mazunik, tuba - Graduated Spring 2005, now a church music director in Iowa City
Alex Prevett, tuba - Member through Spring 2005, currently serving in the US Army
Mitch Monson, euphonium - Member through Spring 2005, currently attending college in Illinois
Beth Sears, euphonium - Member through Spring 2005
Ivan Miller, tuba
- Member through Fall 2005, currently enrolled at the University of Iowa
Leila Sjoholm, euphonium & tuba - Member through Fall 2005
David Ancelet, euphonium - Graduated Spring 2006, living in Minnesota
Tom Isaacson, euphonium - Graduated Spring 2006, currently student teaching
Jake Kline, tuba - Member Fall of 2007, currently performing in Germany
Claire Sievers, tuba - Graduated with a Masters degree in May 2007
Josh Calkin, tuba - Member through Spring 2007, currently Professor at Wayne State, NE
Justin Kvedaras - Graduated 2008, completed student teaching
Jeremy Crawford, tuba - Graduated Spring 2008, currently attending graduate school at Northwestern University
Karl Zelle, tuba - Graduated Spring 2008, currently attending graduate school at the University of North Texas
Chris Dickey, euphonium - Graduated with a Masters degree in May 2009, currently pursuing his Doctoral degree at Northwestern University
Melissa Reiff, euphonium - Member 2008-2009, married in May 2009 and transferred to East Carolina University
Chet Aliga, euphonium - Student Teaching Fall 2009
Andrew Philbrick, euphonium - Pursuing Bachelor of Arts Degree
Joe Pawlowicz, euphonium - Transferred to Joliet Community College
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