CALLING ALL UCF PERCUSSION ALUMNI!
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Alumni - Where Are They Now?
Jonathan Cooper, BME 2009
Chris McWilliams BME, Graduated 2009, accepted a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in percussion and is pursuing a Masters Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of North Texas.
Joe Moore III, BM, Graduated 2009, has accepted a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Percussion from the University of South Carolina.
Paul Keck, BME 2007, is the Associate Director of Bands at Centennial High School in Roswell, Georgia
Chris Burns, BME, Graduated 2007, is a music teacher at Lakeview Elementary in St. Cloud, Florida.
Josh LaBell, BME, Graduated 2007, is a teacher at Timber Creek High School in Orlando.
Luis Rivera, BME, Graduated 2007, has accepted a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Percussion from the University of South Carolina.
Steve Hoskins, BA, Graduated 2007, has accepted a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Jazz Studies from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Anthony King, BME, Graduated 2006, has accepted a Percussion Assistantship at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
Oliver Molina, BME, Graduated 2006, has accepted a Graduate Teaching Assistantship in Percussion from the University of Arkansas.
Brian Baldauff, BME, Graduated 2005, received a full-tuition fellowship to the University of Michigan to pursue his Master's of Music in Performance degree.
James Wright, BA, Graduated 2005, accepted a job as the music teacher at McInnis Elementary and will also be teaching percussion (drumline/pit in the fall, percussion ensemble in the spring) at DeLand High School. He is also going to flight school at Avion Air Academy and has already earned his private pilot certificate.
Thad Anderson, BME, Graduated 2004, received a full time teaching assistantship in percussion and is pursuing a Masters Degree in Percussion Performance from the University of Texas-Austin.
Omar Carmenates, BME, Graduated 2004, received a full time teaching assistantship in percussion and earned a Masters Degree in Percussion
Performance from the University of North Texas. A doctoral candidate at Florida State, he is s an Assistant Professor of Music, Director of Percussion Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina.
Garth Steger, BM, Graduated 2004, received a full time teaching assistantship in percussion and earned a Masters Degree from the Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is currently an Adjunct Instructor of Percussion at Rollins College in Winter Park.
Jeff Willis, BME, Graduated 2004, received a full time teaching assistantship in percussion and is pursuing a Masters Degree in Percussion Performance from Texas Christian University.
Kane Hurlock, BM, Graduated in 2001. Currently a professional musician at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios.
Richard Mola, BME, Graduated 2001, is currently the Associate Director of Bands at a Middle School, Melbourne, Florida.
Adam Steff, BME, Graduated 2001, is currently the Director of Bands at Cypress Creek High School, Orlando, Florida.
Ryan Hinton, BA, Graduated in 2000, is currently working for a company in Michigan designing web pages and is the web master of the Florida PAS Chapter website.
Brandon Tolmach, BA, Graduated in 2000, teaching middle school music at Rickards Middle School in Broward County.
Jason Herold, BM, Graduated in 1999. Currently a professional musician at Walt Disney World and Universal Studios.
Todd Leighton, BME, Graduated 1999 and is currently the Director of Bands at Lake Howell High School, Orlando, Florida.
Kenny Jackson, BA, Graduated in 1999. Kenny is married to Heidi, and they have 2 children, Seraiah and Christian. After serving as percussion instructor for Lake Howell High School for 5 years at the end of 2002, Kenny is moving to Ocala to begin a program on becoming a pastor. He plans to continue to teach drum lines in the area.
Clif Walker, MME, Graduated 1999. Served six years as the caption head for the Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps and as the Associate Director of Bands at Timber Creek High School, Orlando, Florida. Clif is now the Percussion Instructor of the UCF Marching Knights.
Andrew Kruspe, BME, Graduated in 1998, he received his Masters Degree from Louisiana State University (LSU) in Percussion Performance 2001. After serving in the Marine Band in New Orleans, Louisiana, he is the Director of Bands at Gresham Middle School in Birmingham, Alabama. He also assists with the Marching Band and percussion ensembles at Shades Valley High School.
Buck McCloud, BM, Graduated in 1998. Buck freelances throughout Central Florida, maintains a large private studio and is currently the Percussion Instructor at Seminole Community College.
Elliott Klaber, BA, Graduated in 1997. After spending years instructing the Magic of Orlando, Southwind, and Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, Elliott taught percussion at Kiski Area Schools in Pennsylvania. He recently moved back to Orlando where he married UCF clarinet and steel drum alumna, Amy Brown and is teaching in Orlando public schools.
Frank Registrato, BM, Graduated in 1997, lived in Los Angeles for five years and recently returned to Orlando where he is currently a professional musician at Walt Disney World.
N. James Bardo, BME, Graduated 1997. After teaching band and orchestra for five years in Georgia, "Boomer" has returned to Florida and is a freelance sound engineer and designer.
Mark Cole, BM, Graduated in 1994, received a Masters Degree from FSU 1996, was the Director of Bands at Cypress Creek High School (Orlando) and is currently pursuing a DMA at USF.
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