Honor Band Concert
February 7th 7:00pm @ Carson City Community Center
Honor Band
Martha Damon O'Neill
High School Honor Band
Martha Damon O’Neill currently serves as the Concert Band director at Truckee Meadows Community College (TMCC). She retired from Washoe County School District, Reno, Nevada in 2013 after a 30 year career teaching secondary band, jazz band, and choir and serving as the Professional Development for Arts Educators (PDAE) grant coordinator from 2009 – 2013.
She has done extensive work developing standards-based music curriculum, assessments, and grading for WCSD in Nevada. In 2003 she was named one of School Band and Orchestra magazine’s “50 Directors Who Make a Difference”. Martha serves as a band and flute clinician and band, orchestra and woodwind adjudicator in Nevada and California as well as guest-conducting honor bands and presenting music education-related sessions at music and other arts conferences throughout the west.
Martha received a BS in Music Education from the University of New Hampshire and an MM in Music Education from the University of Idaho. She received National Board Professional Teacher Certification in 2007. Martha is Past President of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) Western Division and Past President of the Nevada Music Educators Association (NMEA). She currently serves as NAfME National Band Council Chair and the NMEA Advocacy Chair.
Jesse Steele
NZNMEA MS Honor Band
Jesse Steele has been teaching at Truckee High School for the last six years. Steele graduated from CSU Sacramento in 2002 with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Music. After playing in several bands and giving private lessons in various locations including Maui, Las Vegas, Sacramento, Tahoe, and Reno he went back to school at the University of Nevada Reno. In 2014 he received his teaching credential and his Masters in Music Education. He then began teaching at Truckee High School. The Truckee bands have received numerous awards and nearly unanimous superior festival ratings during his time there. He has received various honors including The Sierra Sun 2019 Teacher of the Year, and multiple Linda Brown Fellows Award nominations. He now resides in Reno with his wife and two beautiful children and enjoys skiing, river rafting, and fly fishing when he is not busy performing or teaching.
2020 High School Honor Band
Flutes
Ava Goodlander – Dayton
Shanti Johnson – Dayton
Bahar Jazani – Carson
Isabella Dickey – Douglas
Troy Quintero – Douglas
Annalisa Ward – Fernley
Clare Stephenson – Carson
Julia Nair – Douglas
Piccolo
Jasmine Wong-Fortunato - Carson
Clarinets
Kyra Fields – Carson
Ashlyn Parnham - Carson
Madisen Aragon – Carson
Kendall Odell – Douglas
Lexi Timpone – Douglas
Haley Schaffer – Dayton
Daniel Ruebusch – Virginia City
Chloe Vasquez – Carson
Zoey Brown – Churchill
Alyssa Anderson – Douglas
Makena Spohr – Douglas
Ilse Sorenson – Carson
Bassoon
Caroline Jones – Douglas
Stefany Rugama – Carson
Bass Clarinet
Elise Tahti – Douglas
Brady Paschall – Douglas
Alto Saxophone
Jake Xie – Carson
AnnMarie De Pasquale – Dayton
Slade Pronk – Carson
Adrian Gonzalez - Fernley
Tenor Saxophone
Liam Garrison – Douglas
Chris Elder – Churchill
Baritone Saxophone
Jacob Mangosing – Virginia City
Daniel Lewis - Carson
Horn
Joshua Gneiting – Douglas
Vaughn Caleb – Douglas
Trumpet
TJ Golbic – Douglas
Evan Perry – Fernley
Evan Vo – Douglas
Travis Beauregard – Chruchill
Clark Burns – Carson
Matthew Jones – Douglas
Brandon Thompson – Carson
Liam Lee – Carson
Madison Raines - Fernley
Trombone
Jacquelyn Wardell – Fernley
Neil Marran – Churchill
Vaughn Oliver – Douglas
Hannah Kallas – Douglas
Ashton Davis – Carson
Dominich Hevener – Dayton
Hayley LaCost – Douglas
Bass Trombone
Seth Bake – Fernley
Euphonium
Donavan Peterson – Carson
Wesley Carr – Fernley
Kenneth Coval – Churchill
Rachel Galahan - Douglas
Tuba
Justin Bolt – Churchill
Emam Thomsen – Carson
Andrew Kupcak – Fernley
John Wagstaff – Douglas
Ryan Heidt – Carson
Kadie Bake – Oasis
Percussion
Lara Casity – Douglas
Shasta Mori – Churchill
Sydney Hastings – Douglas
Jakob Pfieffer – Douglas
Emma Hataway – Carson
Christa Kaiser – Douglas
Devon Defilippi – Carson
2020 Middle School Honor Band
Flutes
Adrian Martinez – CMS
Scarlett Lopiccolo – CMS
Sebastian Caldera – PWL
Lorrell Service - EVMS
Miguel Fuentes – PWL
Alexandrea Brady – CMS
Clarinets
Drea Cabral – CMS
Christian Galvez – CMS
Elizabeth Gneiting – PWL
Kyla Frueh – PWL
Amelia Aragon – CMS
Waverly Pfeiffer – PWL
Aurora Shoemaker – PWL
Aliza Brochers – DIS
Addy LaCost – PWL
Ender Dempsey – PWL
Milly Larson-Soyland – PWL
Michael White – CVMS
Bass Clarinet
Rustam Thind - CMS
Alto Saxophone
Anthony Pacurar – PWL
Ricardo Plascencia – CMS
Caleb Worth – PWL
Valerie Vieira – PWL
Tenor Saxophone
Garrison Andrews – PWL
Andy Vallaster – CCMS
Baritone Saxophone
Christopher Collins – PWL
Joseph Marks – CMS
Horn
Scarlett Esquivel – CMS
Samuel Lords – CCMS
Trumpet
Nathan Parsons – CMS
Kenzie Ramirez – CMS
Eva Thomas – CMS
Devin Linehan – EVMS
Montgomery Jackson – PWL
Cristian Valenzuela Gonzalez – PWL
Serenadee Running Wolf – EVMS
Saga Spencer – PWL
Trombone
David DeJesus – CMS
Alesan Ponce – CMS
Keliah Brady – CCMS
Euphonium
Keeley Qualls – PWL
Aspen Evans – DIS
Tuba
Zachary Koenig – CCMS
Samuel Richetta – CMS
Dylan Cooley – EVMS
Percussion
Todd Gosselin – CMS
Tessa Payan – CMS
Abbigail Detsch – PWL
Cody McWilliams – CMS
Katarina Klatt – EVMS
Jasmine Fox - CMS