Wayne is Professor of Music at Arizona State University where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in conducting. Similar positions were held at University of TN, TX Tech University, and East TN State University. He also served on the faculty of the University of CO; Hastings College, AL State University, and the Howell, MI Public Schools. Dr. Bailey holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Iowa State University, a MM in trumpet performance from the University of Michigan, and a Doctorate of Musical Arts in instrumental conducting from the University of Colorado. He has conducted and served as music director for community bands for thirty years, including The Denver Concert Band. While he was DCB’s Music Director it performed in the International Community Band Festival in Lucerne, Switzerland. Since joining the Association of Concert Bands he has written articles for the Association’s Journal.

Mrs. Brechting is in her eleventh year as the Conductor and Musical Director of the West Michigan Concert WINDS. She holds a BME and MA and has been involved with community bands since 1980 as a performer, board member and librarian. Gail has been a member of ACB since 2003. The WINDS were one of the featured ensembles at the 2005 Quincy, IL ACB Convention and were a John Philip Sousa Foundation Silver Scroll Award Recipient in 2005. Gail is an active adjudicator and guest conductor throughout the United States and Europe and has recently been invited to represent ACB at the 2006 Midwest Clinic in Chicago. Gail is a music educator of twenty-eight years, the past twenty-two with the Reeths-Puffer Public Schools and eleven with Muskegon Community College. She lives in Spring Lake with her husband, Frank and their seven year old daughter Annelise.

Ron loves playing the tuba. After a 35-year hiatus from music, he unpacked his trumpet and joined a small community band, but within a few months he descended to the low brass. After a year of playing in 2 community bands, Ron went in search of adult band camps and found a New Horizons camp at Interlochen which opened the door to the world of music making outside of his remote northern New York community. Soon after, one of his band directors introduced Ron to ACB, which was about to hold its 2008 convention in Corning. The thrill of that 4 days with so many like-minded souls set the hook hard and fast. It became clear there was no turning back.

Ron retired from a career as a civil/structural engineer in private practice in Canton, NY to make room for more music. He currently plays in wind ensembles at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music and Saint Lawrence University, and for 2 years was tubist with a local brass quintet. For the past year, Ron has also been a member of a handbell choir, satisfying the urge to play more than one note at a time. Ron has recently turned some of his energies for personal music-making into a campaign to get other adults into music, and in September 2009, he founded the New Horizons Band of Northern New York in Potsdam, with nearly 30 senior adults turning out for the first rehearsal, some of whom have never played music before. Ron has also appeared as guest conductor for the Orchestra of Northern New York, a regional professional orchestra. When not making music, Ron keeps busy with duties as a trustee for our community hospital, tending the garden, attending classes with our adult continuing education program and enjoying the open skies as a newly-minted private pilot. Ron lives in Potsdam, New York with his wife, cat and an ever-burgeoning tuba collection.

Jerry is an exclusive composer and arranger for Alfred Publishing Co. and has published over 300 works for band, symphony orchestra, and chorus. A native of Altoona, Pennsylvania, Jerry has a Bachelors degree from the Eastman School of Music and a Master of Music from The Catholic University of America. Mr. Brubaker served for 30 years in the United States Navy Band in Washington, DC, as a french horn soloist and composer/arranger. He became the Band’s Chief Arranger and held that position until his retirement from the Navy in 1998. Jerry is a member of the City of Fairfax (Virginia) Band and has been an ACB member since 2002. He is very sensitive to the musical needs of community bands. One of his most recent works, “The American Road” received its official premiere as the commissioned work for the 2010 convention in Plano, TX. Everyone including the composer enjoyed the ride!

Tommy began his teaching career as a band director in Mississippi, moving on to Louisiana in 1966. His bands were sweepstakes winners at district and state levels. In 1968 he was awarded the Pacesetter Award by the City of Monroe for outstanding leadership in education. During these years he continued playing professionally as a pianist. In 1970 he became assistant band director at JJ Pearce High School in Richardson, TX. He became the director in 1973. The Pearce band was the TMEA runner-up Honor Band in 1974. The band was selected as the “Presidential Honor Band” for President Ford’s 1976 appearance in Dallas. In 1977 Tommy began a successful 20 year career as a professional school fund raiser. He worked with Brook Mays Music in Dallas as a music education specialist from 1997 until retirement in 2005, continuing as a clinician and adjudicator in Texas and Louisiana. He was selected as Conductor and Musical Director of the Plano Community Band in January 2001. During his tenure the band has grown to 80 members and has increased its performance schedule. They performed at the ACB national conventions in 2004 and 2007, and will host the ACB convention in 2010. Tommy resides in Richardson with his wife, oboist Denise. He holds both Bachelor and Master of Music from Northeast Louisiana University. He is a member of Texas Bandmasters Association, Texas Music Educators Association, Association of Concert Bands, Phi Beta Mu, and Phi Mu Alpha.

Susan is beginning her 21st year as conductor of the East Winds Symphonic Band. Under her direction, East Winds has matured as an organization and in 2008 was awarded the prestigious Sudler Silver Scroll. The EWSB was selected to perform for ACB conventions in 2008 and 2011. The EWSB established the Three Rivers Community Band Festival in 2004 as a vehicle to further awareness of community band music in western Pennsylvania, to encourage quality performance, and to bring together community band musicians from many different organizations. Since its inception, Susan has served on the festival steering committee. She received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education, specializing in oboe, from Susquehanna University and her Masters of Education in Music from The Pennsylvania State University. She continues to perform on oboe and English horn with several regional orchestras. As an educator she has worked in the Midd-West and Moon Area School Districts, St. Bernadette’s in Monroeville, and in Connecticut in the Glastonbury Public Schools. Susan joined ACB in 2006, and resides in the suburbs of Pittsburgh with her husband Tom, a computer engineer, and their three children.

In May of 2000 Colonel Shelburne completed a 30 year career in music, culminating in ten years of leadership as only the sixth “Leader and Commander” of The United States Army Band, Washington, DC. He earlier led the US Military Academy Band at West Point and the US Army Europe Band in Heidelberg, Germany. He has earned undergraduate (Hardin-Simmons University) and graduate (Arizona State University) degrees in music. In 1976 he was chosen to be the Associate Director and Deputy Commander for the US Armed Forces Bicentennial Band and Chorus which was organized to help celebrate our nation’s 200th birthday. Bryan was elected to membership in the American Bandmasters Association in 1990. He is married, with two children and five grandchildren. Bryan first joined the ACB in 1996 and has been an individual member and most recently, a corporate member as co-founder of Global Arts and Entertainment. He was also our convention band conductor in Mesa, AZ in 1996.

Geoff is a past ACB Board Member and a Life Member of the Association of Concert Bands. He is a Licensed Real Estate Broker and Instructor from Gainesville, Florida and has been President of his own company Spiegel Inc., Realtors for the last 25 years. He is a Past President of the Gainesville Community Band and was on the committees that produced the ACB Conventions in 1995 and 2003 in Gainesville. He also attended the 2007 Convention in Pensacola Beach. In addition to his Real Estate career, Geoff is an active musician playing alto, tenor, and bass trombone and has played with the Gainesville Symphony, the Gainesville Philharmonic, the Central Florida Symphony, and the Central Florida Festival Orchestra. He is a founding member of Gainesville Pops! and a member of the FMEA clinic Jazz Ensemble. He is also a clinician teaching marching band techniques as well as a brass clinician throughout the North Central Florida region. He was a member of the All-American College Band at Walt Disney World, Florida, and the Assistant Director of the Marching Band at the University of Central Florida, Orlando. Geoff is an advisor for the Florida Alpha Chapter of Phi Delta Theta and the Eta Omega Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. He has served on many Volunteer Civic Boards in the Gainesville area and is listed in "Who's Who in Executives and Professionals". In addition Geoff is an ordained Elder and Trustee at the First Presbyterian Church of Gainesville.