Scouts Extend Contracts of Petersen and Spanos
The Madison Scouts are pleased to announce the contract extensions of Dann Petersen, corps director, and Jeff Spanos, development director for the 2010 season. “Dann is the foundation to our corps,” stated Chris Komnick, executive director. “He continues to build the underlying character of the membership in ways that very few people get to see. As an administrator he is tasked with making sure this corps get safely down the road each day during tour. As an organization we are fortunate to have someone as dedicated as Dann continuing to serve in this role for the corps.”
“Jeff is credited with an incredible effort in building our musical merchandising program over the past year”, said Komnick. “One of our objectives last fall was to a build business-based income stream that was sustainable outside of the corps operations. Jeff was tasked with that and delivered.” The Madison Scouts, through Yamaha, have offered all their instrumentation for resale and have successfully sold its brass instruments, front ensemble equipment and amplification gear to high school & college band programs, individuals and small civic groups. In addition to its instrumentation, the corps has guard costumes, flags and used guard equipment for sale as well. Most of the available equipment can be found at www.MadisonGear.com or by contacting jspanos@madisonscouts.org
The Madison Scouts have finalized the 2010 instructional staff and the team includes:
James Mason - Artistic Director
BRASS
James Prime - Brass Arranger
Donnie VanDoren - Caption Supervisor
Brad Green - Co-Caption Head
Dr. Nick Williams - Co-Caption Head
Jason Robb - Trumpet Tech
Amy Frost - Mellophone Tech
Alex Brough - Baritone & Euphonium Tech
Tim Snyder - Tuba Tech
Jay Hagy - Tuba Tech
Marc Whitlock - Consultant
Scott Oliver - Intern
PERCUSSION
Thom Hannum - Arranger & Consultant
James Ancona - Caption Supervisor
Nick Angelis - Caption Head
Brian Perez - Asst. Caption Head & Tenor Tech
Sharif Mamoun - Snare Tech
Herschel Wilde - Bass Tech
Eric Thompson - Battery Visual Tech
FRONT ENSEMBLE
James Ancona - Arranger
Jeff Lee - Caption Head & Electronics Arranger
Oliver Rodriguez - Senior Tech
Jake Harpster - Tech
Justin Lewis - Sound Engineer
COLOR GUARD
Jim Moore - Choreographer
Rosie Queen - Caption Supervisor
Bryan Sutton - Caption Head
Josh Benningfield - Equipment/Dance Tech
Kaysey Thompson - Equipment/Dance Tech
Charlie Gumbert - Consultant
VISUAL
Jon Vanderkolff - Visual Designer
Bob Medworth - Caption Supervisor
Wesley Bullock - Caption Head
Curt Koehler - Visual Tech (trumpet)
Matt Wisley - Visual Tech (mellophone)
Tim Darbonne - Visual Tech (bari/euph)
Jeff Cleveland - Visual Tech (Tuba)
Brandt Murphy - Visual Tech
Pat Butler - Consultant
Jordan Walker - Intern
Whitney Medworth - Intern
Full staff biographies are available HERE.
The Madison Scouts audition process is underway. Those young men interested in auditioning for the corps can go HERE to sign up.