All-Iowa Concert Band Festival

06/07/2021

We are excited for the return of the All-Iowa Concert Band Festival in 2022. We sure missed being able to provide this festival last year but look forward to seeing you all again! The format of the 2022 festival will look slightly different, although our mission to provide a quality educational music experience to all participants remains the same. This year’s festival will be held on two different days, with two available sites each day, and two sets of clinicians. We are still finalizing the list of clinicians and we plan to post that list as soon as it’s available.

Our dates and sites are as follows:
Monday, February 21st – Johnston and Central DeWitt
Tuesday, February 22nd – Atlantic and Waverly Shell Rock

Registration will open on Monday, June 7th. Each site will have space for 19 bands. You will be able to access the registration links through our website. Once a site is full, you will have the option to register for another site or you will be put on a waiting list should there be any cancellations.

We hope you will join us in February!

2022 All-Iowa Concert Band Festival Monday, February 21st, 2022 - Johnston High School & Central DeWitt High School Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022 - Atlantic High School & Waverly-Shell Rock High School

06/01/2020

Registration is open for the 2021 All-Iowa Concert Band Festival. We are excited to offer 5 sites this year. Please check the dates and sites carefully. Each site is limited to 19 bands. If you go to register and we are full, please email the host site to be put on a waiting list. We are still waiting to solidify our list of clinicians for the year.

Visit our website to register!

https://sites.google.com/jdragonmail.us/alliowaconcertbandfestival/home

Thanks for your support!

06/01/2020

Registration for this year's festival will open today. We are putting the final details together. We will post the notice here and through your district IBA presidents when the forms are live. Looking forward to FIVE outstanding days!

02/20/2020

We had an amazing 3 days of the All-Iowa Concert Band Festival. A huge thank you to our three host sites, our amazing clinicians, our supportive sponsors, and of course the 55 different bands who gave performances. Together we are impacting music education in Iowa!!!! We hope everyone involved had a great experience and will spread the word to their colleagues. Here are some pictures from day 1 in Johnston. We will see you in 2021!!!

02/20/2020

02/17/2020

This is Dan's third year of being the Emcee for this event and he's awesome!

02/17/2020

We can't do this without your support!

02/17/2020

Thank you Iowa Central Community College for being here!

02/17/2020

Thanks, Jay Petersma, for recording all the bands today!

02/17/2020

Thanks Rieman Music!!!

02/17/2020

Day 1 of the All-Iowa Concert Band Festival is about to kick-off in Johnston with 20 great bands slated to perform. Click on our website to see the full schedule of all three days. Thanks to all of our sponsors for their support!!!!

01/25/2020

We hope you will join us for three great days of performances at the All-Iowa Concert Band Festival. This year 55 bands across three sites (Johnston, Gilbert, and Central DeWitt) will perform for and receive comments from some of the best music educators in the country. Students will also have the opportunity to support their peers and listen to their performances making this a truly educational event. Dates and sites are as follows:

February 17th - Johnston High School
February 18th - Gilbert High School
February 19th - Central DeWitt High School

Schedules are being posted on our website:
https://sites.google.com/jdragonmail.us/alliowaconcertbandfestival/home

01/25/2020

We have another great group of college and university sponsors this year. These institutions provide great musical experiences for students beyond high school. Thank you for your support of our festival and for continuing to foster a love and appreciation for music in our young people!

This year's collegiate sponsors are:
Iowa State University
Drake University
Iowa Central Community College
Northwestern College
Morningside College
Coe College
Mount Mercy University

01/25/2020

We are fortunate to have Rieman Music and West Music as sponsors this year. The services you provide our schools is incredible!

01/25/2020

Thank you to the Iowa Bandmasters Association for once again sponsoring the festival. We appreciate the support!

01/25/2020

We are once again very pleased and fortunate to have Bob Rogers Travel as our presenting sponsor. Bob Rogers Travel has been a huge supporter of the festival since the very beginning. We can't thank you enough for supporting and encouraging music education across the country.

01/25/2020

Brad Lampe from Osceola is giving verbal comments to each band this year.

Mr. Lampe attended High School in Geneseo, Illinois where he graduated in 1980. He then attended Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois where he earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education and graduated in 1984. He earned his Master’s Degree in Music Education from Drake University in 1991. HIs first two years of teaching were in a 5th-12th grade instrumental music program at Shelby-Tennant Schools in Shelby, Iowa (now A.H.S.T.W.), and then he taught for a year in the 5th -12th grade instrumental music program at Lansing Community Schools in Lansing, Kansas. Starting in 1987, he taught for 29 years as the High School Band Director at Clarke High School, in Osceola, Iowa. He is currently the Instructional Coach for Clarke Community Schools in the Middle School and High School buildings.
He is a Past President of the Iowa Bandmasters Association which occurred in 2013 and a recipient of the Karl King Active Outstanding Band Director Award in 2016. He is a Past Chairman of the Concert Band Affairs Committee, Past President of SCIBA, Past Chairman of the SCIBA Honor Band (5 years), Past Co-Chair of the SCIBA Concert Band Festival (14 years), Past President of the Osceola Optimist Club, and Past Chairman of Osceola Parks and Recreation Department.
His wife, Amy, is the President of the First National Bank in Osceola. They have three boys; Jake, Joe, and Mitch, daughter-in-law, Emily (who is married to Jake), daughter-in-law, Kayla (who is married to Joe), and three grandchildren; grandson, Jayden, who is six, grandson, Cameron, who is three and granddaughter, Paisley who is two (all children of Jake and Emily) and one grandchild on the way in March from Joe and Kayla

01/25/2020

Dr. Danny Galyen will be giving conducting critiques this year.

https://music.uni.edu/danny-galyen

Associate Professor of Music, Director of Bands Danny Galyen is Director of Bands and Associate Professor of Music at UNI. He conducts the Wind Ensemble, provides administrative and artistic direction for the eight ensembles in the band area, and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in conduct...

01/25/2020

Dr. Daniel Schmidt is also one of our featured clinicians this year.

Dr. Daniel J. Schmidt is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Northern Arizona University. Prior to this appointment, he was director of bands and professor of saxophone and double reeds at Mars Hill College in North Carolina. College ensembles under his direction have received international reputations, touring Europe, performing at various conventions including the CBDNA Regional Conventions in 2002, 2006, and 2010 as well as a variety of state MENC conventions. The NAU Wind Symphony has made promotional recordings for Warner Bros. Music and Carl Fischer Music. Prior to Dr. Schmidt's appointment at Mars Hill College, he was the associate director of bands at Syracuse University, directing the 230-piece Pride of the Orange marching band and various concert and pep bands.

Dr. Schmidt received the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Florida State University and was appointed director of bands at Hudson High School in Pasco County, Florida, in 1987. He is the first person to receive the Master of Music in wind conducting from the University of North Texas while emphasizing saxophone performance and musicology (1993). Dr. Schmidt is also the first person to receive the Doctorate of Musical Arts in wind conducting from the University of Kentucky (2000). Dr. Schmidt was the recipient of a Fulbright Award to Australia in 1993, but refused this opportunity to join the Syracuse University faculty. He has served as clinician and adjudicator throughout the country.He is the Primary Conductor and Director of Scholarly Publications for Carl Fischer Music of New York. Projects have included acting as the coordinating editor for the recent series of band scores entitled Percy Grainger: The Critical Edition. He is the author of My First Klos, My First Wagner, My First Universal Method, My First Barrett, and My First Weissenborn, five intermediate lesson workbooks for woodwinds, and is the co-author of Protocol: A Guide to the Collegiate Audition Process for trumpet, clarinet, trombone, saxophone, and flute. He is the conductor of the Trade Winds, a professional ensemble that does promotional recordings of new music for Carl Fischer and Wingert-Jones since 2002. Dr. Schmidt is also a performing artist for the Yamaha Corporation of America and is the Arizona State Chair and President of the Western Region for the College Band Directors National Association.

01/25/2020

Dr. Andrew Mast will be one of our featured clinicians at this year's festival!

https://www.lawrence.edu/conservatory/faculty/andrew_mast

01/25/2020

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Shelley Jagow to this year's festival!

http://www.shelleyjagow.com/biography.html

Dr. Shelley Jagow is Professor of Music at Wright State University School of Music (Dayton, OH) where she serves as director of the Symphonic Band and Saxophone Quartet. She earned top honors in Music Education degrees from the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) and the University of Missouri (Colu...

04/08/2019

We are very excited to announce our 2020 festival dates and the addition of a third site to the schedule at Gilbert High School! Thank you to everyone for your support of the festival!

Monday, February 17, 2020 - Johnston HS
Tuesday, February 18, 2020 - Gilbert HS
Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - Central DeWitt HS

02/11/2019

We are 1 week away from this year's concert band festival. Please take some time to look around our website, read about our clinicians, sponsors, and see the schedule of our performing bands! If you are free, please stop out and catch some of the performances. The event is free and open to the public!

https://sites.google.com/jdragonmail.us/alliowaconcertbandfestival/home

08/22/2018

Steve Stickney of Mount Mercy University will be providing verbal feedback to all of our bands this year!
https://www.mtmercy.edu/steve-stickney

Steve Stickney serves as Director of Bands at Mount Mercy University where he teaches applied trumpet, conducts the University Band, jazz band and pep band, and travels the Midwest as a marching, concert and jazz band clinician and guest conductor.

08/22/2018

Dr. Michael Golemo from Iowa State University will be providing conducting feedback this year!
https://www.music.iastate.edu/people/michael-golemo

Michael Golemo is Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Iowa State University. In addition to his administrative and teaching duties in the band area, he conducts the Wind Ensemble, the top concert band at Iowa State. A native of Chicago, he received his Bachelor of Music Education and Master....

08/22/2018

We are excited to have Dr. Robert Belser from the University of Wyoming as one of our clinicians for the 2019 festival!
http://www.uwyo.edu/music/faculty_staff/belser_robert.html

A native of Lee's Summit, Missouri, Dr. Belser began his musical training on trumpet then on euphonium as a student of Keith House. He earned the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Central Missouri State University studying with Russell Coleman and Robert Gifford. Following his undergraduate st...

08/22/2018

We are excited to have Dennis Fisher from the University of North Texas as one of our clinicians for the 2019 festival!
https://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/dennis-fisher

Dennis Fisher is the Conductor of the Symphonic Band, Associate Director of Wind Studies at the University of North Texas, and Professor of Music in Conducting and Ensembles. A Kansas native, he has been a member of the faculty since 1982.

08/22/2018

We are excited to have Dr. Myron Welch from the University of Iowa as one of our clinicians for the 2019 festival!
https://music.uiowa.edu/people/myron-welch

Myron Welch is an emeritus professor and former director of bands at The University of Iowa where he conducted the Symphony Band and Chamber Wind Ensemble, coordinated the graduate program in band conducting, and taught courses in instrumental methods, conducting and band literature. In 2001, Dr. We...

07/26/2018

Happy Summer! We are currently putting the details together on the 2nd All-Iowa Concert Band Festival and we are excited to announce we will be hosting a second site at Central-DeWitt High School. The dates for the event are as follows: Monday, February 18th at Johnston High School and Tuesday, February 19th at Central DeWitt High School. Registration information will be coming very soon!

01/16/2018

What a fantastic day of music education and music making. It wasn't without it's curveballs but we made it work. Thank you to all th bands who braved the weather, our clinicians, sponsors, Johnston schools, the Johnston Band Parents Association and the students of Johnston for bringing this vision to reality. Stay tuned for future announcements for the 2nd annual All-Iowa Concert Band Festival!

01/16/2018

What a great way to end a great day, the Southeast Polk Wind Ensemble.

01/16/2018

Ankeny 10th grade Band sounds great!

01/15/2018

Valley Southwoods is sounding great!

01/15/2018

Thanks Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center Concert Band for attending the festival!

01/15/2018

Welcome Ballard Concert Band!!!

01/15/2018

Southeast Polk Symphonic Band. Very musical performance!!!

01/15/2018

Southeast Polk Concert Band. Great performance!

01/15/2018

Great to have Independence here!!

01/15/2018

Congratulations to The Newton Wind Ensemble on a wonderful musical performance.

01/15/2018

Johnston Symphonic Band