Band – Jim Kull
Jim Kull has been Director of Bands at St. Charles East High School since 1994, where he conducts a concert band, symphonic band, the wind ensemble and leads the jazz workshop. He has also held positions at Champaign Central High School, Wheeling High School and Kansas State University. Jim is also currently on the faculty at Elgin Community College, where he conducts the concert band, and at Judson University, where he has taught secondary music education classes and the jazz ensemble.
Jim has received degrees from VanderCook College of Music, and the University of Illinois. He has done advanced coursework in wind conducting and jazz studies at Indiana University, where he studied with Ray Cramer and David Baker. Jim has participated in conducting workshops with Frederick Fennell and Elizabeth Green. He has also studied conducting with James Keene and Victor Zajec.
Jim has been the recipient of the Chicagoland Outstanding Music Educator Award and the Mr. Holland’s Opus award, and has served as IMEA District 9 jazz representative three times. While at Kansas State, Jim received the William Stamey Award for excellence in undergraduate education. He lives in St. Charles with his wife Jennie, the head volleyball coach and physical education teacher at St. Charles East, and his two daughters, Katie and Morgan.
General Music – Joyce Larson
Joyce has a BA in music education from Augsburg College, Minneapolis, MN. Her instrument of emphasis was piano. She sang and toured with the Augsburg A'cappella choir. She has had teaching credentials in Minnesota, California and Arizona and taught a variety of positions in both public and private schools in California, Hawaii and the Phoenix area. She is a current member of AMEA and NPM (National Pastoral Musicians) and have been affiliated with CHODA, ORFF, and Choristers Guild as well.
Most recently she is retired from St. Louis the King Catholic Elementary School where she taught music for the last 12 years. She still serves as Music Director/organist at St Paul Lutheran Church and teaches private piano lessons. She likes to stay active and volunteered this year with the election, fund raising for Phoenix Conservatory of Music and mentoring for the Symphony in our Schools Program.
Chorus – Teryle Watson
Orchestra – Barry Kolman
Barry Kolman is a frequent guest conductor of orchestras around the world. In 1994, he led the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in Russia as guest conductor for the Anton Rubinstein Centennial Concert, and in 1993 he was invited by the Minister of Culture to become the first American to conduct the State Orchestra of Azerbaijan in Baku. In 1992 he led a tour of the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Blasorchester throughout southern Germany under the auspices of the U.S. General Consul. As a guest conductor, Kolman has also led the Orchestre Royal de Chambre of Belgium, the Orquestra do Norte in Portugal (as conductor and clarinetist), the Poznan and Czestochowa Orchestras in Poland, the Cordoba Symphony Orchestra in Argentina, the Hunan Philharmonic in China, the Botosani Philharmonic in Romania, the Gilea Chamber Orchestra and Crimean State Philharmonic Orchestra in Ukraine, the West Bohemian Symphony Orchestra in the Czech Republic, the Ural State Philharmonic in Russia, the Hopkins Symphony in Baltimore, the Northern Music Festival Orchestra in Ontario, and the Rio de Janeiro Philharmonic.
Dr. Kolman has led the Buffalo Philharmonic (New York), Mesa (Arizona) and North Arkansas Symphony Orchestras and recorded his fifth CD with the State Philharmonic of Iasi (Romania). He has conducted the Slovak State Symphony Orchestra of Kosice during the city's annual sacred music festival and then in the first recording of Anton Rubinstein's Symphony No. 3 for Centaur Records. He has also recorded music of Pulitzer prize-winner Karel Husa with the Slovak Radio Symphony in Bratislava for the Marco Polo label. A recording of George Antheil’s music, also on Centaur, was released on May 1, 1996 as well as a disk of Max Steiner's film music which was released on April 1, 1998. He is currently working on the premiere recording of, “Where Do We Go From Here?”, a film musical comedy with music by Kurt Weill and lyrics by Ira Gershwin.
Barry Kolman received his doctorate in conducting from the University of Northern Colorado where he was awarded the Graduate Dean's Citation for Excellence and a Colorado Graduate Fellowship. His Master of Music degree in clarinet performance is from Illinois State University and his bachelor's degree in music education is from the Crane School of Music, for which he received a New York State Regents' Scholarship. Dr. Kolman studied conducting with Eugene Corporon of the University of North Texas, and has participated in master classes led by Zubin Mehta and Frederick Fennell.
Currently, Dr. Kolman is Music Director and Conductor of the University-Shenandoah Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music at Washington and Lee University.
Jazz – Andrew Goodrich
Andrew Goodrich is currently Assistant Professor of Music Education at Boston University. Goodrich teaches graduate courses in music education including Ethnographic Field Methods, Psychology and Sociology of Music Education, and supervision of doctoral student research including dissertations. Goodrich supervises student teachers in addition to coaching jazz combos and teaching a graduate and graduate course in jazz history and jazz pedagogy.
Prior university appointments include Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Music Education at Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, Louisiana where he directed the University Big Band, coached combos, and taught jazz improvisation and music education courses; and a one year appointment as Visiting Instructor of Music Education at Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan where he taught jazz pedagogy and courses in music education.
Goodrich’s secondary teaching experience includes four years of conducting bands at the high school and junior high school level in Billings, Montana, and elementary teaching experience includes one year of teaching general music, band, and choir in Missoula, Montana. Goodrich received his doctorate in music education with a cognate in jazz performance from Arizona State University; a Master Degree in Music Education with a Jazz Concentration from Arizona State University; and a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from the University of Montana.
Goodrich is active conducting workshops and presenting research at symposia and conferences at all levels. He has published articles and reviews in the Journal of Research in Music Education, Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, Journal of Historical Research in Music Education, Music Educators Journal, Jazz Education Journal, International Trumpet Guild Journal, in proceedings from various conferences, and is a contributing author to the book Narrative Inquiry in Music Education: Troubling Certainty. Recent performances include concerts with Marcus Roberts, Jason Marsalis, and blues musician Lou Pride.
Guitar – Mark Campayno
Mark graduated summa cum laude from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 2003 with a degree in Music Education. After taking a teaching position in Virginia, he completed his Master’s in Music Education at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia in 2005.
As a youth, Mark’s interest lay mainly in sports. At the age of 20 he finally decided to pursuer his lifelong interest in the guitar. Teaching himself to read music using the famous Mel Bay method, Mark dedicated his time to studying all styles of music over the next few years. After a stint playing in cover bands and studying both classical and jazz music, he decided to pursue music in a more formal way by attending college. At the ripe old age of 40 his long road to serious musical study began.
Working full time, holding down a family, and attending classes full time was a burden. Knowing that something good would come of all the work, Mark realized his dream and was able to secure a directorship in guitar instruction at River Bend Middle School in Sterling, Virginia where he has been since 2003. In 2005, Mark was recognized for his “Outstanding…” teaching by then Governor, Mark Warner. Mark has built the guitar program at River Bend to well over 250 students.
Believing in a broad-based approach to musical study, Mark believes strongly in the individual student’s path to musical fulfillment and sees potential in all areas of musical performance for his students. Improvisation, creativity, and structured musical development are musts for up and coming guitarists and Mark insists that his students engage themselves in these critical elements not boxing themselves into one style or approach.
Mark’s musical influences are broad and that contributes to his sometimes schizophrenic ipod song collection. Latin, Jazz, Classical, Rock, and Country can all be found on his player and moods will certainly influence his listening. This gives him a knowledge of many styles of music that benefits his students. A voracious collector of guitar instruction books, Mark has books on just about every aspect of guitar playing imaginable. His favorite guitarists include: Pat Martino, Paul Gilbert, and Eric Johnson. Ironically, his favorite musicians are not guitarists at all and include: Miles Davis, Stevie Wonder, and Ludwig Van Beethoven.
Mark served on the middle school curriculum committee for the Loudoun County Public School’s guitar program in 2008. In addition, he has directed the rock/jazz classes at Loudoun County Public School’s Summer in the Arts program for 5 years. In addition to his middle school position, Mark is also the Music Director at the Paul Green School of Rock Music in Ashburn, VA where he directs upwards of 80 guitarists, bassists, vocalists, keyboardists, and drummers in shows and lessons. He is also the Youth Entertainment Coordinator for Loudoun County’s annual YouthFest festival, which showcases teen talent in music and dance. In addition, he teaches students when time allows and sees a never ending interest in guitar study from all ages both male and female alike.
Mark is always looking to broaden his musical horizons in all areas and is a self-confessed musical nerd reading any book dealing with musical history, theory, or psychology. He would love to teach a college course someday and hopes to continue his education at higher levels in the future maybe even writing his own book on guitar study. Having been engaged in just about every possible guitar performing situation, Mark still performs when called upon and loves to play in band situations where the player can become one with the greatest gift in the universe, musical expression.