Marshall University School of Music

12/13/2024

A huge thank you to Guy Lake!

11/23/2024

Tonight!
Marshall University School of Music Middle School Honor Band Festival. Concert starts at 7:00.

These students have worked hard all day!

Enjoy!

10/02/2024

Help us recognize our very own Dr. Phil Vallejo for being awarded 3rd Place in Wind Ensemble Conducting for the 2024 American Prize competition.

Congratulations!

https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2024/09/national-winners-conductors-bandwind.html?view=flipcard

09/01/2024

https://tinyurl.com/5n6p8dzm

Check out this US Letter designed by Chris Schletter.

05/31/2024

https://www.marshall.edu/band/the-upside-down/

The Marching Thunder Announces their 2024 Halftime Show! Be among the first to find out what they're planning!

05/23/2024

Congrats to this year's High School Senior Class of '24!
You're significant achievement is certainly recognized.

Hope to see you on campus!
https://www.marshall.edu/band/prospectivestudents/generalinformation/

05/16/2024

05/15/2024

All new and returning students at Marshall University:
Don’t miss out on this opportunity!

Live your Marshall Moment as a member of the Marching Thunder. Yes, you can do this. And you'll have 200 friends doing great things with you.

Pre-register today!!
https://forms.gle/efGiCJJFYupNPQ2L7

04/29/2024

We are excited about the Marching Thunder's new season this coming fall and we are being led by a wonderful selection of student service leaders. They have much to offer the program and we can't wait to see how well they work together for the betterment of the Marching Thunder.

Help us congratulated the 2024-25 Student Service Leadership on their newly assigned positions.

One Family.
Herd Pride.
We are...Marshall.

04/26/2024

Congratulations to MUED graduate, Garret Cummings, on being named the Related Arts Student Teacher of the Year!! We are excited for your future students and know you’ll be an amazing music educator!!

04/22/2024

Congratulations to our very own Director of Bands, Dr. Phil Vallejo! He's been selected as a finalist in the Conducting (college/university bands division) division of The American Prize national non-profit competitions in the performing arts. The American Prize will be announcing winners in his division soon.

https://theamericanprize.blogspot.com/2024/04/national-finalists-conductors-bandwind.html?m=1

04/20/2024

Today was our Marshall Bands Cookout at Ritter Park. Something fun and new for our program. We wanted to celebrate these amazing people and their efforts throughout the entire year. The Marching Thunder, Sixth Man Band, Wind Symphony, and Symphonic Band had such a great year and we are certainly looking forward to making next year even better.

Some highlights from today:
Great hotdogs! Great badminton game, serious ultimate frisbee, and good times with special people.

We also recognized the following members.

Outstanding Woodwind MT Member:
Garret Cummings

Outstanding Brass MT Member:
Jayce Townsend

Outstanding Percussion Member:
Dice Johnson

Outstanding Color Guard Memeber:
Anna Goode

Outstanding Majorette:
Aaliyah Walls

Outstanding First-Year Members:
Maddox Clark & Ian Niemczyk

Outstanding Service/Seamstress:
Tabby Casey

Outstanding Service Leadership:
Charity Stradwick, Sarah Gillenwater, and Ken Johnson

Outstanding First-Year Symphonic Band Member:
Jaycie Grogg

Outstanding First-Year Wind Symphony Member:
Lauren Dunsmore

Musical Leadership Award:
Byron Raider

Our School of Music continues to develop and expand, and it’s because of the leadership, efforts, and dedication present in the members of each of our Marshall Bands ensembles.

The future is bright!

One Family.
Herd Pride.
We Are…Marshall.

Go Herd!

04/18/2024

The Marshal University School of Music Symphonic Band and Wind Symphony will be holding their final concert of the year tonight, April 18th, beginning at 7pm with special guest ensemble, the Cabell-Midland Wind Ensemble.

This concert is free and open to the public. We look forward to seeing everyone tonight.

02/27/2024

This year’s Marshall University School of Music High School Honor Band Festival was such a huge success! It was such an honor working with Phillip Vallejo to bring in a team of clinicians to the tri-state area to work with some outstanding high school students.

Many, many thanks to guest clinicians Dr. Jason Casper, Dr. Myra Rhoden, (almost Dr.) Garrett Griffin, and guest composer Nicole Piunno for all of their expertise, wisdom, positive energy, and sense of humor they brought to the 2024 MUHSHBF.

We hope all the high school band directors involved had a wonderful time and enjoyed themselves while on campus. Even more-so, we hope that their students had an even better time.

This year’s festival included:
An outstanding concert from Boyd County High School (under John Johnson) and the Marshall University Wind Symphony, masterclasses for all sections, three clinician workshops for the directors, a great concert by the Marshall University Symphonic Band and Marching Thunder, a Q&A session with Nicole Piunno, and finished with three outstanding honor band performances.

Thanks you to all the students and directors involved, Marshall’s Kappa Kappa Psi chapter, our graduate assistants, and the SoM faculty and staff for a hugely successful event. And of course thank you to Phil Vallejo for his leadership throughout this entire event. I look forward to the next one!

02/11/2024

The Marshall University Symphony Orchestra had a great time playing side-by-side with the West Virginia Symphony today. Well done, everyone!

02/04/2024

Congratulations to Dylan Morgan and Emma Dial, winners of the 2024 Concert of Soloists Competition! Dylan will perform the first movement of Beethoven's 3rd Piano Concerto and Emma will perform Bizet's "Ouvre ton coeur" with the Marshall University Symphony Orchestra on its April 17th concert. Kudos, also to the other performers - competition was tough!

02/02/2024

Yes! We are at OMEA!
Come visit us @ booth 122.
Go Herd!

01/10/2024

Just a reminder that this Friday is the deadline for high school directors to nominate their students for our High School Honor Band Festival.

Please visit our HSHB event page for more information and to nominate your students.
https://www.marshall.edu/band/honorband/