Meghan Hardy is in her 3rd year of teaching at AISJ, after previously working in Ethiopia, Hungary, and the US.  She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree and Master's degree in Music, with a focus in Wind Conducting from Kansas State University.   She is actively involved with the Association of Music in International Schools. 

Ms. Hardy strongly believes that making music makes us human.  This ISSEA band and choir festival bring with it the opportunity to increase our musicianship, build relationships, and put beauty in the world and our souls.  She is looking forward to working with all of our musicians to make this festival a wonderful event.

Tremon Kizer serves as the Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, and Associate Professor of Music at the University of Central Florida. In addition to serving as the lead administrator for the UCF athletic band program, he conducts the Symphonic Band, teaches courses in music education and graduate conducting. Outside of the School of Performing Arts, he is involved with the Faculty Senate and serves as Vice Chair for the Undergraduate Programs and Policies Committee.

Outside of his work at UCF, Dr. Kizer serves on several committees at the national and state level. Committees such as the National Band Association Revelli Composition Contest Selection Committee, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Awareness Committee, the Florida Bandmasters Association Commission Committee Chair, Music Selection Committee Member, the Board of Directors for the Florida Youth Symphony Orchestra, and just hosted the CBDNA Athletic Band Symposium at UCF. He is an active guest conductor, adjudicator, and leadership consultant. As a guest conductor, he has conducted numerous district, regional, and state honor bands and professional ensembles such as the United States Army Band. He has been on staff for numerous music camps, drum major clinics, and collegiate and high school concert and marching band camps.   

As a champion of diverse music, he has conducted and presented numerous works for chamber and wind band. Most notable is his research on two-time Prix de Rome winner, Ulysses S. Kay. In addition to his research on Kay, he frequently presents on programming literature that reflect the demographics of the students in the music classroom. He has given lectures and presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra International Conference, the College Band Director National Conference (CBDNA), the Southern Division CBDNA Conference, the CBDNA Athletic Band Symposium, the Florida, Kansas, Missouri, and Minnesota Music Educators State Conferences, and the Kansas Bandmasters Association State Conference. He has been featured and has published in The Marching Roundtable, National Band Association Journal, and Teaching Music.

His professional associations include the College Band Directors National Association, World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles, the National Association for Educators Association, and Kansas Bandmasters Association.  He is a member of Phi Mu Alpha and holds honorary memberships in Pi Kappa Lambda, Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma. He relaxes by reading, studying, traveling, and spending time with his beautiful wife and amazing child.

Scott Leithead is the founder and Artistic Director of Edmonton's Kokopelli Choir Association and TIME Association. He has been invited to conduct provincial and state honour choirs on twenty-eight occasions and he has presented workshops in North America and beyond. Notable appearances include: adjudicating the Tampere International Festival in Finland; conducting the 2013, 2015-2019 Ellison Canadian Honour Choir; and headlining the 2017 University of Toronto Summer Conducting Symposium. He has adjudicated both the ACCC National Competition for Amateur Canadian Choirs and the Kathaumixw International Choir Festival (2014, 2016 and 2023). Under his direction, Kokopelli was the winner of both the 2015 CBC National Competition for Canadian Amateur Choirs and both the 2015 and 2016 Canadian National Music Competition.  In the summer of 2019, Kokopelli was invited to perform at the IFCM World Choral Expo in Portugal, where they represented Canada on the world stage.  Also in 2019, Kokopelli was featured on an episode of CTV's "The Amazing Race Canada”.

In 2022/2023 he will conduct several provincial honour choirs in Canada as well as a return engagement to conduct the Ellison Canadian Honour Choir.  

Scott has a passion for music from southern Africa, and he has been invited to work with choirs in South Africa and Namibia on numerous occasions. In 2008–2009, Scott was on sabbatical in Namibia, where he worked with the Mascato Youth Choir and many other choirs in southern Africa. Scott’s passion for innovative and unique choral music experiences has shaped the direction of the Kokopelli Choir Association.  

Scott is a longtime member of the advisory committee for the Canadian Rocky Mountain Music Festival and the Cantando Festivals. 

Scott was awarded Choir Alberta’s top honour, the Richard S. Eaton Award, in 2015. He also received Edmonton’s Salute to Excellence award in 2016. He has also been awarded the Syncrude Award for Innovative Direction.