Wayne Markworth
Wayne was Director of Bands at Centerville High School in Ohio for 35 years. He also served as Fine Arts Coordinator for the Centerville City Schools for five years and High School Music Department Chair for twenty years.
During his tenure the Centerville Band program involved over 250 students including three concert bands, three jazz ensembles, marching band, and Winter Guard and Percussion. They received consistent superior ratings and awards and the Symphonic Band, Jazz Ensembles, and Marching Band performed at OMEA state conventions. Wayne developed the marching band, known as "The Centerville Jazz Band", into a unique and entertaining ensemble of 200 members that performed an all-jazz format on the field. They were finalists in Bands of America Regionals and Grand Nationals 57 times, with fourteen regional championships and the 1992 Grand Nationals Championship.
Wayne has been a consultant, arranger, and instructor for many bands and drum corps. His articles have appeared in several national music publications. He also performed for four years as principal trumpet with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and studied trumpet with Vincent Cichowicz of the Chicago Symphony. Wayne received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Indiana University and a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University.
Wayne has presented many clinics and workshops for students, directors and adjudicators on such topics as brass performance, the total band program, stress and performance, contemporary music and general effect in the marching band. He has taught music classes and workshops at the college level as well, including Miami University, Wright State University and the University of Dayton. In 1992, he received an Excellence in Teaching Award from the Dayton-Montgomery County Public Education Foundation and in 2000 received the Centerville Education Foundation Teacher of the Year Award. In recognition of his 35 years of service, Wayne was selected the Grand Marshall of the 2005 Centerville Americana Parade. In 2007, he was inducted into the Bands of America Hall of Fame. Wayne is an active clinician, adjudicator, arranger and trumpet performer and President of the music & consulting business Shadow Lake Music. He is currently teaching at Wright State University and is author of The Dynamic Marching Band, a textbook on Marching Band Methods.
Todd R. Moody
Todd R. Moody is a native of Harrison County Kentucky. Mr. Moody is currently the Director of Bands at Scott High School in Taylor Mill, Kentucky.
Mr. Moody holds a Bachelor of Music Degree from the University of South Carolina and a Master of Music Degree from the University of Arkansas.
Prior to his position at Scott High School Mr. Moody served the Williamstown Independent Schools and the Clark County Public School System (Kentucky) as Director of Bands. His bands have consistently received Distinguished ratings at concert and marching band festivals. In 2002 Mr. Moody led the George Rogers Clark High School Band to the KMEA Class AAA State Championship.
Mr. Moody is a member of MENC, KMEA, and Phi Beta Mu. He is a past recipient of the Wal-Mart Regional teacher of the Year Award and the Kentucky Music Educators’ Association and Phi Beta Mu’s Outstanding Young Band Director in the State of Kentucky. Mr. Moody is an active clinician, consultant and adjudicator for bands in Kentucky and South Carolina.
John Phillips
John Phillips received his Music and Education degrees from the University of Western Ontario and a Masters Degree in Music Education from Boston University. He also achieved an Artist Diploma in trumpet performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music.
John is currently leading the curriculum review for the Arts at the Ministry of Education for the Province of Ontario. He also acts as Principal of the in-service teacher training music programs for the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. John has been an instructor for both the University of Toronto and York University in the faculties of education and music. Prior to leaving teaching in the public system, John was a music department head at three major high schools in the York Region District School Board.
John’s musical leadership has been extensive throughout Ontario. He served as Music Course Manager for the Ontario Educational Leadership Centre for 13 years. He served on music curriculum advisory and development teams for the Ministry of Education. He has been a board member for both the Ontario Music Educator’s Association and the Ontario Band Association. He has written articles for the OMEA journal The Recorder, the CMEA Journal, the OBA newsletter In Harmony and the Ontario College of Teachers journal Professionally Speaking. John is a founding member of Phi Beta Mu, Lambda Iota Chapter.
John has guest conducted honour bands across Ontario as well as Illinois and Alabama. In addition to the Eastern Kentucky Honour Band this year, he will conduct the Manitoba Honour Band. Each summer, he conducts the Wind Ensemble at the National Music Camp of Canada.
As a performer, John has played in the London Symphony Orchestra, Brantford Symphony and the Forest City Brass Quintet. He spent two summers at the Banff School of Fine Arts under the leadership of the Canadian Brass, studying trumpet with Ronald Romm and Fred Mills.
John has been an active adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor across North America, Europe, Japan and the Caribbean for over 20 years. Earlier this year John adjudicated the Bands of America Grand National Championships and the U.S. Open Brass Band Championships. He is presently the judge administrator for Drum Corps International.
Richard L. Saucedo
Richard L. Saucedo is currently Director of Bands and Department Chairman at the William H. Duke Center for the Performing Arts at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana. Under his direction, Carmel bands have received numerous state and national honors in the areas of concert band, jazz band and marching band. The CHS Wind Symphony has performed at the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival three times (1992, 1999, and 2004) and was named the Indiana State Champion Concert Band in 1999. The group also performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago during December of 2005. The Carmel Jazz Ensemble has won numerous awards at jazz festivals in Indiana and throughout the Midwest. The Carmel Marching Greyhounds have finished in the top ten at the Bands of America Grand National Championship for the past 12 years and were named National Champions in the fall of 2005. The Marching Band has been an Indiana Class A State Champion three times in recent history. The Indiana Bandmasters Association named Mr. Saucedo Indiana’s “Bandmaster of the Year” for 1998-99.
The band program at Carmel currently serves 350 instrumentalists in five concert bands, four jazz ensembles, a 200 member marching band, a 100 member pep band, a competitive winter color guard (2007 WGI Scholastic Open Class National Champions), music theory classes, and a music technology class.
Mr. Saucedo is a freelance arranger and composer, having released numerous marching band arrangements, concert band works and choral compositions. He is currently on the writing staff for the Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. His recent grade 5 composition “Windsprints” was one of the most played new concert band works in 2005 by high school and university bands. Mr. Saucedo also composed a piece for the Mississippi Bandmasters Association honoring the work of all those who helped the state to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. The piece was premiered at the All State Band Concert in Jackson, Mississippi during March of 2006. His “Symphony #1 for Wind Orchestra” was premiered at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Convention in December of 2006. Mr. Saucedo has received commissions from all parts of the United States and he will be releasing numerous works for university, high school and middle school bands in the near future.
Mr. Saucedo travels throughout the country as an adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor for concert band, jazz band, marching band, and orchestra. He will be a guest conductor, clinician or commission composer in over 15 different states during 2007-2008. He has been a featured clinician for the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, the Texas Music Educators Association, the Arkansas Bandmasters Association, the Colorado Music Educators Association, the California Music Educators Association and the Indiana Music Educators Association. He has served as Music Caption Head for the Drum Corps Midwest Judges Guild and as a brass and music judge for Drum Corps International. Mr. Saucedo is currently brass composer/arranger and music ensemble consultant for the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps in Rosemont, Illinois as well as the Northern Star Drum and Bugle Corps in Europe. The Cavaliers have won the DCI World Championship five times in the last eight years using music by Mr. Saucedo.
Mr. Saucedo did his undergraduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington and finished his master’s degree at Butler University in Indianapolis. He is also an aviation enthusiast and a certified private pilot. Mr. Saucedo is married to his devoted wife Sarah and is most proud of his daughter, Carmen, who is in 11th grade and studies voice. The Saucedo’s would also like to announce the arrival of Ethan David Saucedo, born on December 8, 2006.