Programming Music By Canadian Composers

Michael Burch-Pesses is the President-Elect of the Association of Concert Bands and the Director of the award-winning Oregon Symphonic Band, Oregon's premier adult band. He is the Director of Bands at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band, and teaches courses in conducting and music education. A former bandmaster in the US Navy, he served as Leader of the Naval Academy Band in Annapolis, Maryland, Assistant Leader of the Navy Band in Washington, D.C., and Director of the Commodores, the Navy's official jazz ensemble. He is the author of “Canadian Band Music – A Qualitative List of Canadian Composers and Their Works for Band.”