Angela Albrecht is in her 27th year of teaching and her 22nd year as the Director of Bands at Rockwood South Middle School. Her responsibilities include directing the 8th grade band, assisting with 7th grade band and teaching beginning flute, clarinet, saxophone and co-directing the jazz band. 

Before accepting the position at Rockwood South Middle School in 2004, she previously taught in the Maplewood-Richmond Heights and Elsberry School Districts. She received her BME from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, her ME from Lindenwood University. She received the 2023-24 St. Louis Suburban Outstanding Music Educator Award and is a National Board Certified Teacher, a member of NAfME, RNEA, Phi Beta Mu and AAA. She resides in O’Fallon, Missouri with her husband Rich and cat Milo. Her daughter, Molly, is a junior at the University of Iowa majoring in Biomedical Engineering.

Jacob Bisaillon is the Percussion Director and Assistant Band Director at Rockwood Summit High School and Rockwood South Middle School, where he teaches percussion students in grades 6-12. He earned a Bachelor of Music Education from Illinois Wesleyan University in 2012 and a Master of Music Education with an emphasis in instrumental conducting from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023.

An active member of NAfME and PAS, Jacob brings a wealth of experience from his prior roles as a band director at Washington High School, St. John Vianney High School, and Galesburg High School. He resides in Webster Groves with his wife, Brook, and their two children. Outside of teaching, Jacob enjoys spending quality time with his family, playing drumset, cooking, and cheering on St. Louis City Soccer Club.

Jared Brockmeyer  is currently serving in his 15th year as assistant director at Rockwood South Middle School.

A graduate of Truman State University (B.A., M.A., M.A.E.), Jared works with a wide range of musicians, from beginners to adults.  He has been fortunate to appear in podcasts, websites, magazines, and conferences across the country, to conduct at MMEA and The Midwest Clinic, and to regularly work with performers in classrooms, honor bands, community bands, festivals, and marching ensembles.  A passionate advocate for the marching arts, Jared has taught World-Class drum corps with DCI and DCUK, designed for State Champions and BOA Finalists, and judges movement and design on panels across the Midwest as an affiliate of BOA and CSJA.

Jared presently serves as Principal Guest Conductor of the Manchester Community Band and as a visual technician for the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps.  He is a National Board Certified teacher and member of Phi Beta Mu and ASBDA, and has been honored to serve MMEA as Band Vice President at the district and state levels, to be an RSMS Teacher of the Year, and to receive the St. Louis Suburban MMEA Outstanding Music Educator award. 

Jared lives in House Springs, MO with his wife Sara and daughters Eliza and Fiona. 

Ashlyn Descher is entering her 4th year of teaching, and this will be the 1st year as the assistant band director at Rockwood Summit High School. She completed her Bachelor of Music Education, Master of Music Education, and Minor in Jazz Studies at Truman State University where she was an active member in the saxophone studio as well as in Wind Symphony 1 and Jazz Ensemble. She previously taught at Wentzville Holt HS and Wentzville MS as the Jazz Director and Assistant Director of Bands. Her pastimes include taking private lessons on flute, clarinet, and saxophone, running an active saxophone studio, subbing in the St. Louis Wind Symphony Community Band, buying Pokemon cards with her husband Grant Descher, and petting her cats Nina and Naima.

Danny Pace has been teaching music for 12 years, and this is his first as head band director at Rockwood Summit High School. He completed his undergraduate degree at Missouri State University, and his graduate work at Vandercook College of Music in Chicago, IL.

 In his current position, Danny teaches at Rockwood South Middle School as well as Rockwood Summit High School. At Rockwood South, his responsibilities include beginning trumpet, beginning low brass, assisting with the 7th grade band, and bringing turkey to the band staff Thanksgiving. At Rockwood Summit, he teaches the Concert Band and assists with the Wind Ensemble and Marching Band. Prior to his position at Rockwood, he taught at Springfield Catholic Schools, Pattonville, and Fort Zumwalt. He is a member of ASBDA, NAfME, and MBA. He is also a member of a performing duo with his wife, Liz (who is also a band director), called Pair of Paces.