The Band Room Podcast

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Dr. Kaitlin Bove, Director of Instrumental Ensembles and Assistant Professor of Music at Pierce College, to the Band Room. Dylan, Cait, and Kaitlin speak about the importance of representation, interdisciplinary collaboration, working with living composers, and much more. Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron Through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/ban...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome composer and music educator extraordinaire, Kenley Kristofferson to the Band Room! Dylan, Cait and Kenley speak about his musical upbringing, composing for concert and video games, developing positive band culture, balance in life and much more. This month we feature the third movement of Kenley's, Transcendent Light, performed by the Arizona State University Wind...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Jim Spragg, second trumpet of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra for our second instalment in the Band Room Sectionals Series! Dylan and Jim speak about his exciting path to the TSO, how his thoughts on being a great section player can help our ensembles, being an Olympic level shooting referee, orchestra contracting and lots of hilarious  stories along the way.  Help Suppo...

Send us Fan Mail We start our new 'Band Room Sectionals' series by welcoming Dr. Wesley Ferreira, Associate Professor of Clarinet at Colorado State University, to the Band Room. Dylan and Wesley speak about growing up in Portuguese culture, how our instrumental musicianship influences our teaching and rehearsing, finding motivation to practice during the pandemic, CD projects and much mo...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Dr. Cynthia Johnston Turner, Director of Bands at the University of Georgia Hugh Hodgson School of Music, to the Band Room. Dylan and Cynthia spoke about the classical concert experience and how maybe it’s time to reconsider how we present concerts, building more diverse programs, music and service and much more.   Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome Dr. Darrin Oehlerking, Director of Bands at the University of Saskatchewan to the Band Room. Dylan and Darrin speak about his zigzag path to where he is, his position at the UofS, building community through music, the 2021 National Youth Band of Canada and much more! Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron Through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bandroom...

Send us Fan Mail Happy New Year! 2020 was rough for a lot of reasons but we often had our days brightened by many of BRP's inspirational guests. We go back in time to hear from their wise words and how we can apply them to 2021. Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron Through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bandroompod Help support the Band Room Podcast by getting your merch a...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome conductor and educator, Dr. Leah McGray, Director of Instrumental Studies for the State University of New York at Geneseo to the Band Room. Dylan and Leah had a great conversation about her path to where she is, the power and need of representation in our field, working with composers, building programs and so much more. Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a...

Send us Fan Mail We share our first bonus episode with you, entitled Band Trips Gone Wrong. Join award-winning music educators, Laura Lee Matthie and Dan Austin as they share some of their best band trip stories. Bus drivers, fire alarms and Kung Fu... Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron Through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bandroompod Help support the Band Room Podcast by g...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome award-winning music educators, Dan Austin, Band Director and Instrumental Music Teacher at GCVI in Guelph, ON and Laura Lee Matthie, Arts Chair and Music Teacher at Orillia Secondary School, in Orillia, ON, to the Band Room. We discuss how they've been doing this semester, their online ensemble rehearsals and recordings, what worked and what didn't work in the...

Send us Fan Mail We launch the first episode of the Band Room Bookshelf with composer and writer, Dale Trumbore, speaking about her book, Staying Composed: Overcoming anxiety and self-doubt within a creative life. Dylan and Dale speak about her background, what inspired her to write the book, the loads of ideas and techniques to help deal with the struggles creatives face and much more! Help Suppo...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome conductor and educator, Joseph Resendes to the Band Room! Dylan and Joe discuss the path he took to get where he is, the role community music making has had in his life/career, his position at McMaster University, PHD research at York University and much more! Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron Through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bandroompod BRP...

Send us Fan Mail Episode Description We welcome back Dr. Gillian MacKay of the University of Toronto. Dylan and Gillian talk about how she’s been keeping her creative self during the pandemic, conducting pedagogy and how meditation has helped help her as a teacher and conductor. We also speak about addressing our privilege/biases as conductors and how we can continue to make our classrooms and reh...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome grants manager, tuba player and researcher, Nick Godsoe to BRP LIVE! Nick is currently, Manager of Programs & Education with MusiCounts, Canada's music education charity. We spoke about what MusiCounts is, the many wonderful programs they offer to help support: music educators, students, community groups, school music program and even parents teaching their chi...

Send us Fan Mail We welcome clarinetist, educator, social media influencer and founder of the Virtual Concert Band, Laura Campbell to the Band Room Podcast LIVE! Join Dylan and Laura as they discuss all things clarinet, teaching, building your social media presence and the Virtual Concert Band.  Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron Through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bandroo...

Send us Fan Mail We are excited to welcome composer, educator and conductor, Giovanni Santos to the Band Room Podcast LIVE! Join Dylan and Giovanni as they discuss his journey to where he is, his position at La Sierra University Department of Music and how they've been ensembing during a pandemic, keeping creative during COVID, diversity in programming and so much more! Help Support the Band...

Send us Fan Mail Dylan sits down with a pivotal person in his life, his junior high band teacher, Mr. Peter Gallant. Join them as they discuss Peter’s path, his 33 years as the band teacher at Summerside Intermediate, his work with technology in music education, how the word “retirement” means something very different in his busy life and much more! This October we feature composer, Dong-In Danny...

Send us Fan Mail For our second BRP LIVE! Dylan caught up with return guest, composer, Cait Nishimura to chat about how she's been doing, keeping creative during a pandemic, her work with the Music Creators Academy, an upcoming Virtual Band project and our new segment...Composer Cats! Help Support the Band Room Podcast by Becoming a Patron Through Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bandroompod B...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first BRP LIVE! A new weekly series of interviews from The Band Room Podcast. We sat down with Toronto based trombonist and composer, Christian Overton to chat about his path and his wonderful new initiative, Musicians Helping Music Teachers . This is also the debut of EKR Hammell's, Skyline as the official music for the Band Room Podcast! Help Support the Band...

Send us Fan Mail Dylan is joined in the Band Room with Dr. Wendy Zander McCallum, faculty member and Instrumental Music Specialist, at Brandon University. They discuss everything from her path to where she is, influential teachers, her full circle path back to BU, gender and the importance of keeping true to who you are as a conductor. This September we feature composer, Chris Byman and his piece,...

Send us Fan Mail Dylan is joined in the Band Room with Dr. Erik Leung, Director of Bands at Oregon State University. They discuss everything from his path to where he is, influential teachers, the importance of diversity in the wind band field, his position at OSO and more! This month's featured piece is the first movement of Theresa Martin's, City of Ambition, performed by the Oregon St...

Send us Fan Mail Dylan sits down with composer Peter Meechan, speaking about his musical upbringing, musical influences, compositional process, life as a composer, his friendship and the impact of trumpeter Ryan Anthony, ideas to consider when planning for the fall and more! For this month’s featured repertoire, we feature the third movement of Pete’s, trumpet concerto, Renaissance of Wonder, comp...

Send us Fan Mail Join Dylan as he explores some of the problems we face as music educators in this new age of COVID-19. Most importantly, we'll be discussing solutions and mindsets to consider, hopefully giving you a little more hope heading into the Fall. We've got this, Bandies! In celebration of Pride Month, we feature Omar Thomas’s, A Mother of a Revolution! Help Support the Band Roo...

Send us Fan Mail Hey! My name is Dylan Maddix! And I’m Cait Nishimura! Together, we host The Band Room Podcast. The podcast that brings you the best of band! We sit down with the movers and shakers of the wind world, composers, conductors, performers and music educators, bringing their insights, stories and inspirations to you. We also go solo, exploring topics on music education, conducting, comp...

Send us Fan Mail Dylan is joined in the Band Room with his friend and mentor, Dr. Mark Hopkins, Professor of Music at Acadia University. They discuss everything from his "unusual" path to where he is, getting back up when you get knocked down, influential teachers, love of teaching, COVID-19 ensemble ideas for the fall and more! The music used in today’s episode was Donald Coakley’s, Ant...