AMEA 2010 Clinicians and Performers
Jody Underwood is product of music technology. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Commercial Music with a Music Technology emphasis from Belmont University in Nashville, TN. A seasoned producer and songwriter, he has composed and produced music for PBS, Nissan, Underground-Mix, and Power Forward Films and currently plays piano for his local church. A love for, and belief in, music and technology led him to SoundTree in 2001, where he is a Senior Account Manager, having designed nearly 200 systems nationwide. Jody lives in Middle TN with his wife Roxanne and baby girl, Ryley.
The Huntsville High School Band has an enviable record of achievement.
The band has
consistently rated superior in district, state, and regional concert, marching, and jazz competitions. With Dr. Spencer at the podium, the band has performed throughout the United States, as well as in Germany,
England, Ireland, the Bahamas, Sweden, and Denmark.
Austria, The
Symphonic Band has received two invitations to perform at the University of Southern Mississippi Conductor’s Clinic, the Tri-State Clinic at Florida State University, three AMEA conferences, and MENC Southern Division conferences in both Orlando and Charleston. In 2004, the bgand won the first prize at he prestigious Gothenburg Music Festival in Sweden, and in 2008, the band marched in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Dublin. Annually, the Huntsville High Band is well represented in the Alabama All-State Orchestra and Band. Several of the schools’ graduates have become music educators.
The Pelham High School Wind Ensemble is the premier instrumental performing group at Pelham. The group is one of two concert ensembles and is made up of seventy musicians in grades nine through twelve who earn and keep their positions within the group through a series of yearly class evaluations. The students who make up the Wind Ensemble are active in performances with Pelham’s jazz, brass, woodwind and percussion ensembles and many of the group’s members form student teaching teams that teach private and group lessons at Pelham’s two feeder programs Riverchase and Helena Middle Schools. Individual performance is stressed in the Wind Ensemble which is evidenced by the number of students who audition for and are chosen for various university honor bands, district and county honor bands and all-state.
The Pelham
program has been fortunate to perform at locations around the country including Chicago, New York, Williamsburg, Washington D.C., Dallas, Orlando and Nassau, Bahamas and has consistently
been rated superior at state and national festivals. While travel and competition are huge motivators to the students in the group, they continue to be focused on upholding the rich tradition of musical performance that is so much a part of the program. Each year, over seventy-five percent of the graduating members of Pelham’s Wind Ensemble go on to continue their music in college ensembles and currently Pelham has more than ten graduates pursuing music performance or music education as a career.
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