Wilson’s musical training began at the age of 13 when was started to be involved in the marching arts activity with the award-winning St. Joseph’s School Marching Band (SJSMB), Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, performing on the Euphonium, under the direction of Anthony Wong and Benedict Lo. He was a marching member with SJSMB until he completed his secondary school education. He continued his involvement with the activity after graduating high school and began his teaching career by instructing and giving workshops to bands around Sarawak and Sabah. He was the Percussion Caption Head and Visual Instructor for St. Joseph’s School Marching Band (SJSMB) from 2008 to 2013.

During Wilson’s time with SJSMB, he developed an interest in drumming and started to learn the drums when he was still was a marching member with SJSMB. He was very fortunate to able to study percussion and percussion pedagogy under the tutelage of Jonathan Fox (USA) from 2008 to 2013. At the same time, he attended masterclasses, clinics and workshops with prominent marching percussion artists around the world including Dr. Gifford Howarth (USA), Jim Casella (USA), among others. He has also attended workshops and clinics for music, visual, conducting and judging with Maestro Mitsuo Nonami (Japan), Maestro Hibiki Minowa (Japan), Jimmy Wong Yew Mun (Malaysia), Michael Gaines (USA), Don Click (USA), Denise Bonfiglio (USA), Andy Toth (USA), Bart Woodley (USA), Paul Doop (Netherlands) and Henk Smit (Netherlands).

Bands under Wilson’s instruction has won multiple State Championship titles, National Championships Awards, Gold Awards at World Championship of Marching Show Bands and World Association of Marching Show Band’s events in Asia & Europe. He was the percussion composer for “The White Rajah of Sarawak”; an original musical production by St. Joseph’s Private School, staged in 2017 and 2019. He is currently the Band Director for both St. Joseph’s Private School Concert Band and St. Teresa’s School Concert Band, and Program Coordinator for St. Joseph’s School Marching Band. He also adjudicates Music for band competition and teaches, writes and designs for bands around Malaysia and China.

Elected as Vice President of Malaysia Association of Marching Arts (WAMSB Malaysia) in 2020, Wilson is also the current President of Kuching Concert & Marching Band Association (KCMBA). He is also one of the Festival Directors of Malaysia International Virtual Band Championships (MIVBC), Creative Director of Sarawak Concert & Marching Band Festival (SCMBF) and the Director of Operations for Malaysia Band Academy (MBA).

Wilson resides in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia with lovely wife Joanne and son Josiah.

If you have ever met Steve Ulicny, chances are, he had a tape recorder in front of his face and he was adjudicating a local contest or a Winter Guard or DCI show. If he wasn’t judging, you might find him surrounded by dozens (if not hundreds) of waist-high middle school students, all trying to hold his attention and find something to say that might impress him. One of the most popular teachers in the Texas area and Japan, Steve is in his 17th year of teaching Instrumental Music, Percussion and promoting education and the Marching Arts around the world. Mr. Ulicny is a1996 graduate of Kent State University in Kent, Ohio where he studied with Michael Burritt for percussion and Dr. Wayne Gorder for Instrumental Conducting. Steve has been involved with bands since the age of 13, when he joined the Warren Junior Military Band. In 1988 Steve began his Drum Corps career with the Bluecoats of Canton, Ohio where he stayed until 1990. 1991 proved to be a very good year; he joined the Star of Indiana Drum & Bugle Corps from Bloomington, Indiana where he stayed and aged out in 1993.

Once Steve aged out of drum Corps, he then turned his attention to the Music Educational aspect of the activity and accepted a staff positions with the Glassmen, Troopers and the Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps before moving to Texas. He is currently an International Educational and Marketing Consultant for Pro-Mark/ D`Addario Corporation and Consultant for several Marching Arts Companies in Japan. Prior to that Steve has held the Position of Band Director and Percussion Specialist at Sugarland Middle School, Mayde Creek Junior High and Beverly Hills Intermediate as well as serving as consultant for many Houston area bands, Such as Stephen F. Austin, Clements High School, ClearBrook HS. Steve has a very extensive background in marching percussion; he is an active Adjudicator for Winter Guard International and a Music Ensemble and Percussion Judge for Drum Corps International, BOA (Bands of America) as well as adjudicating several local circuits for marching band in the United State, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong.

Steve is also an active judge and teacher for Concert/Wind Band throughout the Unites States and Japan and serves as Program Coordinator for the World renowned Yokohama Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps form Yokohama, Japan. Steve is currently the Asia Regional Manager for D’Addario& Company and sponsored by, Sabian Cymbals, Planet waves, Puresound, ProMark and Evans Drumheads.

Kienpin Lee is the co-founder and art director of Evogenetic Studio, a positioning new media design studio that helps brands to grow. With his company belief - great content is the key to maximize efficiencies and have the power to transcend cultures, market & technology, his work is guided by a strong belief in design as a problem-solving tool, as a way to establish strong connectivity between ideas and reality, and as a method for improving the engagement of people and brand.

Being in love with marching band arts, Kienpin joined the Kepong School Band (KSB), Selangor, Malaysia at the age of 13 in year 2006, performing as a percussionist. He continued his involvement with the activity and actively participate in local band scene. Layered by music, marching arts subjects, Kienpin shapes his career by diverging into creative industry.

He believes innovative idea can spark, connect and resonate with people. This passion inspired Kienpin to challenge herself to work in multiple markets and across the creative landscape of Brand, Digital, Product and Traditional, with the goal of bringing storytelling, products and platforms together.

His creative journey involved brands like the Media Prima, ARCH Kuala Lumpur City Gallery, NCT Group, IJM Land, Shell Business Operations Office, TNB Remaco, Pfizer, JnJ, Abbott, Malaysia International Virtual Band Championship, Hands Percussion, Cré Arts Asia, Viva Circus Awards etc. Also, Kienpin was in part of film production such as The Journey, Ola Bola. From Graphic design, Video Editing, Photography, Cinematography, 2D & 3D Animation, Motion graphic, Projection Mapping, Augmented Reality to Interactive Media, he never stop evolving in today challenging world scene and continue his exploration in Art, Media and Technology.

Return to his roots, Kienpin emerge into education field as Kepong School Band instructor, also lecturing in multiple subject such as photography, videography, production management for Film & TV at Point College Malaysia starting in year 2020.

Apivut (Junt) Minalai received his degree in Music Education from Thailand Chulalongkorn University. He has conducted many marching bands and concert bands from Thailand to perform around the world, and he is the only one Thai to ever conduct a marching band in Japan’s national level competitions.

Junt has been a 4 times All Japan Marching Band Champion with the Aimachi Marching Band from Nagoya Japan. With the kindness and direction of Aimachi’s Band Director, Mr. Kiyokatzu Sekine, Junt has conducted the Aimachi Marching Band for 7 years.

Junt also serves as an arranger for Winds and Percussion for many marching bands, Drum and Bugle Corps, and Wind Bands from around the world. His works have won many trophies throughout the world marching band competitions in Malaysia, South Korea, Japan, England, Indonesia and Singapore.

His achievements also include the 2009 World Champion in Corps Style class at the World Music Contest in The Netherlands, and also the 2010 European Champion in Rastede, Germany.

Junt has also travelled to Europe to join the Drum Corps Europe Judges College in Dadizele – Belgium, passed the DCE certification exam, and became the first Asian to be a DCE certified judge.

Junt has also judged at the Fukuoka Marching Band Contest in Japan, the Grand Prix Marching Band Contest in Indonesia, and the Asia Junior Marching Band Championships in Malaysia.

In 2015, Junt received the Best Conductor Award, while his multiple award winning Suranaree Girls Wind Symphony, also won in the concert band competition in Rastede, Germany.

In 2017, under his baton, the Suranaree Girls Wind Symphony won Gold Award in the World Music Contest in The Netherlands.

In 2018 and 2019, Junt attended the Midwest Clinic in Chicago USA and Japan Band Clinic in Hamamatsu Japan.

Junt was again presented with the Best Conductor Award while leading the Suranaree Girls Wind Symphony in the 2020 Prague International Wind Orchestra Competition.

Junt has also guided and lead the Suranaree Girls Wind Symphony to many titles in Thailand and Singapore.

Now Junt is looking forward to working with Youth Organizations to teach them life skills through Marching and Concert Band music.

Beth A. Fabrizio holds a Bachelor of Music from the Eastman School of Music in Clarinet Performance and a Masters of Music in Conducting, Education and Performance from Ithaca College. She has studied conducting with Rodney Winther and Dr. Donald Hunsberger and Clarinet with Michael Webster, Richard Waller, Stanley Hasty, William Osseck, Carmine Campione and performed in master classes with Richard Stoltzman.

Ms. Fabrizio maintains a private clarinet studio with numerous students pursuing careers in music education, therapy, recording and performance. She herself performed as the principal clarinetist and personnel manager with The Greater Rochester Music Educators Wind Ensemble, and former Eb clarinet with The Perinton Concert Band. Beth is a freelance performer and is an active artist/ clinician for The D’adarrio Corporation and educational clinician with the Conn-Selmer Corporation. She has just recently retired after 36 years as a public school educator, and most recently from The Hilton Central School District as a director of Bands at Village Elementary. Beth is also presenting educational clinics and workshops thru Fabrizio’s Musical Concepts. Ms. Fabrizio was just hired in July 2021 as a Music Curriculum Specialist with The Conn-Selmer Corporation.

Ms. Fabrizio has conducted various honor bands and given master classes and clinics across the United States, Europe and Japan. She has taught marching bands and drum and bugle corps for over thirty years. Ms. Fabrizio has been the brass caption head with The Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps, brass coordinator with The Pride of Soka from Tokyo, Japan, brass staff with Boston Crusaders, The Glassmen and Spirit of Atlanta. Beth adjudicates for DCI, WGI and numerous other state associations.

Dr. GIFFORD HOWARTH is currently Associate Professor of Percussion at Bloomsburg University located in Bloomsburg, PA. His previous teaching duties included teaching at Penn State University, Michigan State University and Nazareth College (Rochester, NY).

Dr. Howarth has received degrees from Michigan State University (DMA), Kent State University (MM), and Ithaca College (BM). He has presented clinics and workshops throughout the United States, Canada, Asia, and Europe including Singapore, China, Thailand, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Malaysia. He has also presented at The Midwest Clinic in Chicago, The Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC), several MENC All-State Conferences and PAS Day of Percussion events. The focus for most of the workshops is geared around percussion education.

Dr. Howarth is heavily involved in different competitive marching activities. He was on the percussion staff for the DCI group, THE CADETS from 1999 to 2006. Over the years he has written for several WGI, BOA, and DCA ensembles. He is currently a national adjudicator for DCI, WGI, and BOA along with several state-wide marching band and indoor percussion circuits.

Dr. Howarth is a National Yamaha Performing Artist, a Signature Artist for the Vic Firth Company, and a clinician for Remo Percussion and the Zildjian Cymbal Company. He has several works published through Tap Space publications.

Low Chee Meng enjoys a diverse career as a conductor, educator, administrator, and performing on saxophone as an orchestral, chamber, and solo musician. Chee Meng is Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Wind Orchestra at the University of Lethbridge, where he conducts the Wind Orchestra, teaches saxophone performance, conducting and musicianship skills. He is also involved with the Edmonton Saxophone Quartet, U of L Faculty Wind Sextet, Philharmonic Winds of Malaysia, and has performed as a soloist, chamber musician and guest conduct in North America, Europe and Asia. Under his direction, the U of L Wind Orchestra has performed at prestigious events and venues including Taiwan Chiayi International Band Festival, Edmonton Winspear Centre, Calgary Rozsa Centre, Knox United Church Calgary, Alberta Music Conference, Canadian Cantando Festivals and many outreach concerts in Southern Alberta. Recent creative activities included performance at the 2019 2nd Asia Saxophone Congress, as the guest conductor for the Ontario Interprovincial Music Camp, concerto performance with the Lethbridge Symphony Orchestra for their 2018/19 season and at the 2017 North American Saxophone Alliance Region 9 conference.

A recipient of the University of Alberta FS Chia Doctoral Scholarship, Chee Meng holds a Doctor of Music degree from the University of Alberta, under the guidance of William H. Street (saxophone) and Dennis Prime (conducting). While working on his degree, Chee Meng taught Band Technique and Aural Skills courses at the University of Alberta and served as the Graduate Teaching Assistant for the saxophone ensemble, symphonic wind ensemble, and concert band.

LOW Chee Meng is an artist-educator for Yamaha Music Ltd.

Ho Chee Kiang was born in Pangkor Island in Perak, Malaysia. He has spent a total of 9 years pursuing a musical education in the west majoring in flute and conducting studies. He studied at DIT Conservatory of Music & Drama in Dublin under Willam Halpin. Then at the Royal Irish Academy of Music where he graduated, under Susan Dolye and conducting under James Cavanaugh. He won the 1996 Woodwind Solo at the Irish Arklow Music Festival and made his debut international flute and piccolo performance in Ireland, UK and Japan since 1997 as recitalist, orchestral player, chamber musician, working with the Irish Youth Wind Ensemble, National Symphony Orchestra, DIT Symphonic Band, Dublin Concert Band, Japan-Malaysia Frienship Wind Orchestra and Miyamae Wind Orchestra, to name a few.

During his stay in Europe, he has attended numerous flute masterclasses with many renowned flutists including James Galway, Mazio Conti and Trevor Wye, and has attended conducting masterclasses with Maestro Frederick Fennell, Jeffrey Renshaw (USA), Robert Houlihan (Ireland).

Chee Kiang has produced and conducted many concerts with various band and chamber ensemble throughout Malaysia and has toured USA, Spain, Japan, Thailand, Beijing, Southern China, Hong Kong and Taiwan for concert. In the year 2013, he conducted two commision work by local composer, Yeo Chow Shern - “The Bakul Siah” and Hong Kong composer, Simon Yau - “A Sabah Folk Song Suite”. Both brand new music world premièred with Tsung Tshin Wind Symphony in Japan. Chee Kiang also conducted music camps, flute masterclasses and as band clinician in Malaysia and Singapore. He also has been an adjudicator for some main Band Competition in Malaysia and international level. He attended the World Association of Symphonic Band & Ensember (WASBE) and BASBWE in Manchester, England and 14th Conference of Asia & Pacific Band Director Assiciation (APBDA) in Macau.

Mr. Ho now teaches flute and as lecturer at UCSI since 2000, Universiti Malaya in Kuala Lumpur and UiTM in Shah Alam.

John Meehan is the Director of Community Arts Programs for BD Performing Arts, as well as the brass arranger and caption advisor for the Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps. Prior to assuming these roles in June of 2021, John was on the brass staff of the Blue Devils for 28 years, holding the position of caption head from 2006 through 2019, during which time the corps won 8 Drum Corps International Championships, and only placed outside of the top 2 once. John is also currently the brass arranger for the B & C Corps programs, as well as the Composer in Residence/Associate Conductor for the Diablo Wind Symphony.

John Meehan is the Director of Community Arts Programs for BD Performing Arts, as well as the brass arranger and caption advisor for the Blue Devils Drum & Bugle Corps. Prior to assuming these roles in June of 2021, John was on the brass staff of the Blue Devils for 28 years, holding the position of caption head from 2006 through 2019, during which time the corps won 8 Drum Corps International Championships, and only placed outside of the top 2 once. John is also currently the brass arranger for the B & C Corps programs, as well as the Composer in Residence/Associate Conductor for the Diablo Wind Symphony.

John was inducted into the Drum Corps International Hall of Fame in 2019, the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame in 2019, and the Buglers Hall of the Fame in 2016.

Some of John’s “non-pageantry” writing includes composing the music for “The Music of WYLAND” CD, scoring scenes for several student and independent films, composing two spots for Kaiser Permanente, and being commissioned to write several wind ensemble pieces (many of which are published with GPG Music).

Notable career achievements include lead designer for both the System Blue and King marching brass instrument series, development and production for the Sample Logic and System Blue sound libraries (including Fanfare and V.E.T.), being a nationally recognized adjudicator for marching band circuits such as Bands of America, and as a performer on the movie soundtrack “Monsters University” as a percussionist.

John is a Conn-Selmer Artist, Educator, and Product Designer; and solely uses Sibelius, Logic, and Final Cut Pro X for his composing and editing work. John lives in California with his incredibly supportive wife Jackie, and they have 3 daughters, and two rescue dogs.

Josephine Ang graduated from International College of Music (ICOM) with a Bachelor in Music Production and Technology in 2007. Upon graduation, she was active in various audio post-production works including composition, arranging and sound engineering. In 2010, Josephine got acquainted with the Kodály Method and has since found her passion in music education. After completing the Australian Kodály Certificate in Early Childhood and Primary in 2012, she decided to pursue a Masters Degree in Kodály Institute of the Liszt Ferenc Academy, Hungary. Upon returning from Hungary, Josephine has been a lecturer in UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur. Her strength lies in Aural Skills and Musicianship Training. Besides teaching in the university, Josephine is regularly invited by various institutions and schools in Kuala Lumpur to conduct professional development trainings. As an educator who is open to innovation and growth, Josephine has also presented workshops on “The Effective Use of Technology in Secondary and Tertiary Music Classroom” in Asia Kodály Symposium (2016) in Kaohsiung and Dalcroze International Conference (2017) in Kuala Lumpur, “Classroom Jamming” in International Dalcroze Festival (2018) in Kuala Lumpur.

Mike McIntosh is a graduate of Butler University earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with an emphasis in Composition.

In addition to designing, coordinating, consulting and composing for many marching bands all over the United States, Michael is the Percussion Coordinator for the Music for All Summer Symposium as well as the Percussion Caption Supervisor, Music Coordinator and one of two Percussion Designers for The Cavaliers drum and bugle corps. From 1997-2011, Mr. McIntosh was a percussion specialist at Carmel high school in Carmel, Indiana and an integral part of programs named the 2001 and 2017 AAA National Champion as well as the 2005, 2012, 2016 and 2017 BOA Grand National Champions.

Mr. McIntosh is an active clinician and adjudicator, giving clinics throughout the US, Europe and Asia, having performed clinics in Japan and Beijing, China. Michael is a current adjudicator for WGI and Bands of America.

Compositionally, Michael has had works commissioned for the Midwest Band Directors Convention as well as the West Point HellCats. Currently, he has works published by SmartMusic, Row-Loff Publications, Yamaha Sounds of Summer, Tap Space Publications, Key Poulan Music, Drop 6 Media, The Hal Leonard Corporation, Innovative Percussion, Marching Show Concepts and Dynamic Marching.

Michael is a Yamaha artist/clinician as well as a signature drumstick artist with ProMark. Mr. McIntosh also endorses Evans Drumheads, Zildjian cymbals and D'Addario Cables & Accessories.

Michael resides in Minnesota with his wife Joy and their two beautiful daughters, Scotlyn and Graysen.

Joined the brass band club in the fifth grade of elementary school and started to play trumpet.

After that, he entered Kanto Gakuin Junior High School at Yokohama city and met a marching band. Kanto Gakuin Marching Band participated in JAPAN MARCHING BAND ASSOCIATION. From the same time, he studied classical trumpet playing with Tadao Kanaishi.

In the summer of 1990, when he was 18 years old As a spectator of DRUM CORPS INTERNATIONAL (DCI), he passed the audition of Madison Scouts in 1992 in soprano bugle (trumpet), and in 1993 he won the champion in the solo contest of DRUM CORPS MIDWEST (DCM).

He started to study in awakening to jazz, especially a big band, and participated in a workshop of the late studio musician Isao Kimura, and studied under Kenichiro Hayashi and Hirofumi Kinjo. At the same time, he began teaching brass instruments.

He decided to go to the home country of jazz to study the real jazz idiom in earnest. He entered Berklee College of Music in September 1999, studied for three years with Tiger Okoshi, and studied jazz trumpet performance with Ken Cervenka in one year, and studied jazz composition with Ken Pullig and graduated from May 2003.

After graduating from Berklee College of Music, he stayed in Boston and worked as a member of the Soul band , who had been in college, and interacted with a friend from Puerto Rico in Boston, and also worked as a salsa band etc. Continues to be a professional performer for three and a half years.

In addition, now he has been in charge of lead trumpet from the beginning of the Tokyo Brass Art Orchestra, and is also active in musical performances and performances with his own funk band in Japan.

Eleven years from 2007 to 2017 at Kanagawa Shonandai High School Band “White Shooting Stars” as Brass caption head, focusing on both playing technique and ensemble technique in all brass instruments thorough instruction, led a solid brass line, won four times, contributed to the Grand Prix.

Richard L. Saucedo retired in 2013 as Director of Bands and Performing Arts Department Chairman at the William H. Duke Center for the Performing Arts at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana. During his 31-year tenure, Carmel bands received numerous state, regional and national honors in the areas of concert band, jazz band and marching band. Under his direction, Carmel’s Wind Symphony I performed at the Music for All National Concert Band Festival three times (1992, 1999, and 2004) and was named the Indiana State Champion Concert Band most recently in 2013. The group also performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago during December of 2005. The Carmel Marching Greyhounds finished in the top ten at the Bands of America Grand National Championship for 17 years under Saucedo and were named BOA National Champions in the fall of 2005. Carmel became one of the few schools to win a BOA National Championship and perform at the Midwest Clinic in the same year in 2005. The Marching Band was the Indiana Class A State Champion four times. The Indiana Bandmasters Association named Mr. Saucedo Indiana’s “Bandmaster of the Year” for 1998-99 and he was named the “Outstanding Music Educator” in the state of Indiana for 2010 by the Indiana Music Educators Association. Mr. Saucedo’s accomplishments have been highlighted in articles by HALFTIME and SCHOOL BAND AND ORCHESTRA Magazines. He was inducted into the Music for All “Hall of Fame” in 2015.

Mr. Saucedo is a freelance arranger and composer, having released numerous marching band arrangements, choral arrangements, concert band works and orchestral compositions. He is currently on the writing staff at Hal Leonard Publishing. His concert band works have been performed all over the world by middle school and high school bands as well as by college and university groups. Mr. Saucedo’s first orchestral piece, “Nocturne for Orchestra” was named most outstanding new original composition at the National Orchestra Cup Festival, held at Lincoln Center in NY during April of 2009. His most recent work for orchestra, “Essay No.1” was premiered at the Midwest Clinic in 2014 and he is currently working on his 1st Symphony for orchestra. Mr. Saucedo receives numerous commission requests and he will be releasing new works for university, high school and middle school bands throughout the 2020-2021 school year. He is the author of two DVD’s on rehearsing the marching band wind section and he is also featured in two concert band rehearsal technique DVD’s, all available at dynamicmarching.com.

Mr. Saucedo travels the world as an adjudicator, keynote speaker, clinician and guest conductor. He will be a guest conductor, clinician or commission composer in over 25 different states in the U.S. during the 2021-2022 school year. He was an adjudicator and clinician for the Singapore International Band Festival in July of 2014 and served as a clinician and guest conductor at the Japan Band Clinic in Hamamatsu during May of 2016. Mr. Saucedo presented at the Australian Band and Orchestra Clinic (ANBOC) held in Sydney during September of 2016. While in Australia, he was also a guest conductor for the State Honors Ensemble Program (SHEP) at Griffith University in Brisbane. He was a featured clinician at the 2017 Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago, the 2018 Texas Music Educators Association and at numerous state MEA’s and Bandmaster’s conventions. Most recently Mr. Saucedo was a clinician in Amsterdam and Chengdu, China. He will be an adjudicator for the Hong Kong Concert Band Festival in November of 2021. Mr. Saucedo currently judges for Drum Corps International and he was the brass composer and arranger for the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps in Rosemont, Illinois from 2000 through 2008. The Cavaliers won five DCI World Championships during Mr. Saucedo’s tenure. He also spent four years as the brass composer and arranger for the Blue Stars Drum and Bugle Corps in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He is currently the ensemble coordinator for the Blue Devils Drum and Bugle Corps in Concord, California.Mr. Saucedo is an Educational Consultant for “Music for All” and “Bands of America.” He is a member of the Conn-Selmer Division of Education and currently serves as assistant chief judge for Bands of America marching band competitions. He is a former member of the Board of Directors for “United Sound”, an organization whose mission is to give special needs students a chance to experience the joy of instrumental music performance in their school band or orchestra though peer mentoring. Mr. Saucedo also serves on the John Philip Sousa Foundation Sudler Trophy committee, helping to identify and reward the finest marching bands in the world.

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 wife Sarah and is most proud of his two children. His daughter, Carmen, is currently teaching 5th grade after studying elementary education at Ball State University. His son, Ethan, is currently in 8th grade and studies privately on piano and percussion.