Although 'retired,' Steve Martin is currently the Program Director for the Colorado Honor Band Association. In addition to his program director duties, Mr. Martin also directs the CHBA Concert Band, Jazz Band, as well as beginning band students across the Denver metro area. During his public school career his elementary, middle and high school groups performed at the CMEA Clinic/Conference nine times. Steve served on the board of CBA for 13 years and was voted to the Hall of Fame in 2017. 

Craig Ketels was the Director of Bands at Lewis-Palmer High School from 1980 to 2004. In the fall of 2004 he became the LPHS Activities Director overseeing all non-athletic activities for a student body of 2000 students. Honored inductions include the Colorado Music Education Association “Hall of Fame”, Phi Beta Mu “Most Honored Band Director”, The Colorado Bandmasters Association “Hall of Fame” and the Lewis-Palmer District 38 “Hall of Fame”. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Ketels ensembles have been selected to perform at the Colorado Music Educators State Convention ten times. His Wind Symphony has performed at the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival in 1994, 1999, 2001, and 2004. In 2001 the LPHS second band, the Symphonic Band, was also selected to perform at BOA Nationals. In April 2000 the top jazz ensemble was selected to perform at the National School Board Convention in Orlando, Florida. In 1998 LPHS was proud to have 32 students selected to the Colorado All State Bands a record number from any single school in Colorado.

Richard Shaw (BME 80) is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder and has been a music educator for over 35 years. Twenty-four of these years were in the Academy School District in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He has 16 years of high school and 6 years of middle school teaching experience in Academy, District 20. His concert bands and jazz bands were consistent award winners and were selected to perform at the Colorado Music Educators Conference on 6 occasions. Under his direction, the marching band at Air Academy High School earned state champion honors 3 times, were 12 time regional champions and performed in the Pasadena Tournament of Roses Parade and the King Orange Parade in Miami, FL. Mr. Shaw is a Past-President of the Colorado Music Educators Association, is active in the Colorado Bandmasters Association. Richard was inducted into the Colorado Bandmasters Hall of Fame in July of 2009. In 2008 Mr. Shaw was awarded the Phi Beta Mu Outstanding Bandmaster Award for his excellence and service to music education and was selected as a member of the Pikes Peak Music Educators Hall of Fame in 2011. In May of 2014 he was named Alumnus of the Year, University of Colorado College of Music. In 2017 Mr. Shaw was inducted into the Colorado Music Educators Association Hall of Fame and was Colorado’s music educator recipient for the National Federation of High Schools Educator of the Year. Rick most recently served on the administrative team at the Denver School of the Arts. He is in constant demand locally and nationally as an adjudicator and clinician. Rick resides in Thornton with his wife Rachelle.

Mike Mozingo taught band for thirty eight years, 27 years in Lewis-Palmer District 38 in Monument, Colorado. Mr. Mozingo received a Bachelor Degree in Music Education in 1978 from Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas and a Master Degree in Education from Lesley College of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bands under his direction have performed seven times at the Colorado Music Educators Clinic/Conference in Colorado Springs. He was honored as “Outstanding Band Master” by Kappa Chapter of Phi Beta Mu in 2012 and was recognized in School Band and Orchestra Magazine “50 Directors Who Make a Difference” in 2014. Mr. Mo received a “Citation of Excellence” from the National Band Association in 2019. 

Robert Belser is Conductor and Director of Bands at the University of Wyoming, where he conducts the artistically acclaimed Wind Symphony and the UW/Laramie Community Band, and oversees the UW Band program.  Additionally he teaches music education courses, introductory freshman course, upper level theory courses, and advanced and graduate conducting.  Dr. Belser is active as guest conductor for all state bands and regional honor bands throughout the country and Canada, and has studied conducting with Myron Welch, Harry Begian, Mallory Thompson, Craig Kirchhoff, and John Paynter.  A Missouri native, he earned the Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Central Missouri, the Master of Science in Music Education degree from the University of Illinois, and the Doctorate of Musical Arts degree from the University of Iowa.  Prior to teaching at the University of Wyoming, he taught at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, Easter Kentucky University, and band and choral music in public schools in central Missouri.  He is also the Director of the Wyoming Ambassadors of Music and in the summer, director of the Laramie Municipal Band.

Gary Hall, in his 46th year of teaching instrumental music, is currently serving as director of Marching and Athletic Bands at the University of Northern Colorado. Mr. Hall also loves working with younger band students and works as a sectional coach at a middle school in Fort Collins, Co, and is also very busy in the roles of clinician and adjudicator.

Dr. Alan Mills is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Colorado State University-Pueblo.

Mr. Casey Cropp was the director of bands at Rocky Mountain High School for 26 years. RMHS bands performed multiple times for the Colorado Music Educators Clinic/Convention, and festivals in Denver, Colorado Springs, Longmont, Loveland, and Greeley. They enjoyed performing in Paris, France and London, England for the New Years Day celebrations in 1994, 1997, and 2000, and also traveled to Washington, D.C. to perform for the 2004 Memorial Day Weekend, commemorating the World War II Memorial Dedication, and performed multiple concerts in China for the Music Festival leading up to the Olympics in Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai during the summer of 2008. Mr. Cropp has been a clinician for regional festivals and honor bands in Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico, Montana, and Paris, France. Mr. Cropp is a member of Phi Beta Mu, Colorado Bandmasters Association, Colorado Music Educators Association, is currently on the board of the Colorado Bandmasters Association serving as the coordinator of the state CBA Middle School Festivals, and recently completed his term as the Chair of the Instrumental Council for the Colorado Music Educators Association. He received the National Band Association Citation of Excellence in May of 2013 and was selected to the Colorado Bandmasters Hall of Fame in 2016. 

 Wesley J. Broadnax is in his first year as Associate Professor of Music/Director of Bands at the University of Northern Colorado (Greeley, CO), where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, Chamber Winds, and guides all aspects of the wind band and graduate wind conducting programs. Prior to his appoint at UNC, he held similar appointments at Drexel University, University of Delaware, California State University-East Bay, and Michigan State University. He is also Assistant Conductor of the Newark Symphony Orchestra (Delaware).  Dr. Broadnax maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, clinician and adjudicator. He is a strong advocate of new music and has won the praises of several composers, including Joseph Schwantner, David Maslanka, Michael Weinstein, Dana Wilson, Jere Hutcheson, Joel Puckett, Nicholas Vasallo, Marko Bajzer, Angelo Sormani, Raphael Fusco, and Eric Sessler. He has participated in the Pierre Boulez Symposium on 20th Century Contemporary Music at Carnegie Hall in New York City, the focal work being the composer’s ""Le Marteau Sans Matre,"" with members of Ensemble Intercontemporain. In 2002, Dr. Broadnax completed a four-week residency as a conducting fellow at the Boston University Tanglewood Institute, and served as guest conductor for the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra Children’s Concert series. 

Mark Dorn is professor of music at Colorado Christian University, where he serves as coordinator of instrumental music, conducts the Symphonic Band, directs the Mainstream jazz ensemble, and teaches and performs regularly on trumpet.  In 2003, Mr. Dorn was named Faculty Member of the Year at Colorado Christian University, an honor given by the student body and in 2010 he was awarded the Faculty Teaching Excellence award as chosen by fellow professors.  Mr. Dorn holds memberships in the National Association for Music Education, the International Trumpet Guild, the Jazz Education Network, the College Band Directors National Association, and the Colorado Bandmasters Association. He is an active free lance trumpet artist, and a clinician in both the jazz and symphonic band world.  Mr. Dorn holds a Masters degree in Trumpet Performance and the Bachelors in Music Education from Indiana University.

Denny Sullivan was the band director of Green Mountain High School bands for 17 years.  He retired from teaching in the spring of 2008 after 36 ½ years of teaching.  Prior to Green Mountain, Denny taught 14 years in Adams County District 12 at Thornton High School, area elementary schools and Horizon High School.  He also taught 3 years at Western State College.  For the past few years, he has been teaching part-time in Jefferson County and he also judges concert, jazz and marching band festivals throughout the state of Colorado.    Denny and his wife, Gaylene, have a private music school called Sullivan and Sullivan Music that provides music programs to schools that do not have a music program.  Denny is a Colorado Bandmasters Hall of Fame recipient, Canon City Music Festival Hall of Fame Recipient and he received the Colorado Music Educators Association’s Exemplary Service to Music Education 2018.

A sought-after trombone soloist, conductor and teacher in the classical, jazz and commercial genres throughout the United States and abroad, Sean Flanigan is the Director of Music Entrepreneurship Studies at Colorado Mesa University. He has presented solo recitals, guest conducting appearances and clinics at the National Conservatory in Caracas, Venezuela and as featured guest artist at El Sistema’s Ibero-American Brass Festival in Barquisimeto, Venezuela. He has been invited numerous times to return to Venezuela to work for El Sistema, their world famous orchestral training system. He has performed with numerous symphonic and opera orchestras, backed such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Urbie Green, the Temptations, recorded for television, radio, and commercial CDs and has performed for numerous touring Broadway shows. He holds a Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas, and Master of Music and Bachelor of Science degrees from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign.

Matthew Dockendorf is Associate Director of Bands and Director of the “Golden Buffalo” Marching Band at the University of Colorado Boulder. An Assistant Professor of Music, Dr. Dockendorf conducts the Symphonic Band and teaches instrumental conducting as well as music education courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level. Prior to his appointment as Associate Director of Bands, Dr. Dockendorf spent five years as the Assistant Director of Bands at CU where he directed the “Buff” Basketball Band and the Concert Band. Dr. Dockendorf taught public school at Lakeville South High School in Minnesota where he was the Assistant Director and was involved in administering and teaching: marching band, concert bands, chamber music, percussion ensemble, pit orchestra, and guitar class.

Dr. Ed Cannava, a Hall of Fame member of the Colorado Bandmasters and Colorado Music Educators Associations, is in his sixth year as Director of Bands at Regis University of Denver. He holds BME, MME and PHD degrees in music education, from the University of Colorado, and was a public school music educator for 32 years, culminating with his 22 year tenure as Director of Bands at Arapahoe HS in Centennial, Colorado. Dr. Cannava was as an instrumental music education instructor at the Metropolitan State University of Denver from 2010-2014, and is currently active as a guest clinician, conductor, adjudicator and consultant. Dr. Cannava has adjudicated marching, concert and jazz bands in Colorado, Washington, Utah, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Nevada, California and Tennessee.