Roy D. “Skip” Vandelicht, Interim President – Skip is currently the Director of Bands at Central Methodist University in Fayette, MO. Along
with his duties as Director of Bands at CMU, he also teaches classes in
conducting, woodwind techniques, and music education, as well as
teaching applied woodwind lessons. Prior to moving to CMU he taught for 31 years in the Fayette R-III School District and retired from there following the 2007-2008 academic-year. During
his tenure at Fayette R-III, Mr. Vandelicht also served as Adjunct
Marching Band Director at CMU from 1983-1995 and Adjunct Co-Director of
Bands at CMU in 2007-2008.
A
native of Fulton, Missouri, Skip received his Bachelor of Music
Education degree from Central Methodist College in 1977 and a Master of
Education degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1984. From
1992-1994 he served as Chairman of the Missouri All-State Band for the
Missouri Bandmasters Association and from 1994-1996 he was President of
the Missouri Bandmasters Association. Skip is the
instrumental music adjudicator trainer for MSHSAA as well as a member of
the MSHSAA Prescribed Graded Music List Committee and Sight Reading
Committee.
Mr.
Vandelicht received the Music Teacher of the Year Award from the
Missouri Federation of Women’s Clubs in 1982, the Outstanding Young
Alumni Award from Central Methodist in 1990, the Orpheus Award from the
Beta Mu Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in 1991, the prestigious
Bandworld Legion of Honor Award in 2004 and the National Federation of
High School Activities “Music Educator of the Year Award for Missouri
2008”. His memberships include the Music Educators
National Conference, the Missouri Music Educators Association, Missouri
Bandmasters Association, Phi Beta Mu, the National Band Association, the
College Band Directors National Association, the Central States Judges
Association, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the Fayette Optimist Club. Skips is an active judge, clinician and adjudicator in Missouri and surrounding states.
Nathan Spurling, Vice President – Mr. Spurling is currently the Band Director at Hollister High School in Hollister, Missouri. Nathan has also judged and worked with many percussion groups across the state. He has served as the Percussion Coordinator and Assistant Coordinator of the Mid-Continent Color Guard Association. He is a member of Missouri Music Educators Association and Missouri Band Masters Association. He lives in Branson with his wife, Maria, his beautiful daughter Emma, and their family pet Rimshot.
Nathan graduated from North Salinas High School in Salinas, California and attended Hartnell Junior College. During that time he spent six years in the drum and bugle corps activity marching with the Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets and the Sacremento Freelancers. He then transferred from Hartnell to the University of Missouri-Columbia.
While at MU, Nathan served as center snare for the Marching Mizzou Drumline as well as serving as a counselor for the Missouri Summer Music Institute and MU's All-Juniors Camp. He earned his Bachelors Degree in Music Education at MU and after graduation he took his first position as director of bands in Ellington, Missouri. Mr. Spurling was then hired as the Assistant Band Director and the Director of Jazz at Owensville, Missouri.
He left Owensville to pursue a Master of Arts degree in Conducting at MU. While a graduate student, he served as the Drumline instructor for Marching Mizzou, founded the Missouri Rhythm Movement Winter Drumline, and conducted all University Bands. Following the completion of his assistantship, Mr. Spurling took a position at Christian Fellowship School, a private Christian school in Columbia, Missouri. While there Mr. Spurling taught all aspects of the band program as well as teaching physical education and coaching the junior high basketball team. Mr. Spurling has also served as director of bands in the Branson School district and the Marionville school district.
Joy Ellsworth, Treasurer - Joy received her Bachelors Degree from the University of Kentucky. She then relocated to the Kansas City area with her husband Luke where she began working as a mortgage loan officer. After two years of service in the mortgage industry she felt the intense desire to dedicate more of her life to benefiting community
youth. So, after careful consideration, she decided to resign from the mortgage company and continue her academic studies pursuing a career in non-profit development. Joy is currently seeking a Masters Degree in Non-Profit Management from the
University of Missouri Kansas City Bloch School of Management.
Joy's decision to enter the world of non-profit development was generated from her love for the marching arts. While in Kentucky, she performed with the University of Kentucky Marching Color Guard and Aesthetics Independent Winter
Guard. After moving to KC she acquired the role of Coordinator and Choreographer for the Guardians of Spin Color Guard program. She previously served as the Canton Bluecoats Drum & Bugle
Corps Volunteer Coordinator and now actively participates in the Kansas
City musical theater scene, teaches private woodwind lessons, and choreographs color guard work for high schools in the KC metro area.
Andrew Marjamaa, Secretary – Andrew Marjamaa has been the band director of the Southern Boone County High School since fall 2005. The SBC band is very active in marching and performs atseveral venues around mid-Missouri. Andrew earned his BA in Music Performance and his Masters in Music Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Andrew has played oboe for the Columbia Community Band and is currently a member of the Jefferson City Orchestra. Andrew is a father of two children and has a beautiful wife Jennifer. He is honored to serve on the initial Board of Directors for Momentum Youth Performance, Inc.
Gary Taylor, Director at Large – Gary owns and operates a Music Go Round retail store in
Columbia, Missouri
which specializes in used musical gear; he also plays drums in and around the Columbia area. Prior to owning his own business, Gary worked in management and marketing
positions with major retailers. A native of Chillicothe,
Missouri, he had the privilege of learning
percussion under the direction of Claude T. Smith, and he earned a music scholarship to Missouri
Western State College. Gary received
his Bachelors degree in Business from the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
Jim Riley, Honorary Board Member – Since 2000 Jim has been the band leader and drummer
for the country band Rascal Flatts. The
band has set
more concert attendance records than any country act selling more than six
million tickets. They have also sold twenty million albums, twenty-five million
digital downloads, and earned thirteen number-one charting singles. Moreover,
Rascal Flatts became one of only four country acts to ever debut six
consecutive studio albums at number-one. They have won nearly forty awards from
the ACM, CMA, AMA and People's Choice, among others, and they have received a
star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Jim
has also been voted Best Drum Clinician by readers of the publication Modern
Drummer, and Best Country Drummer by the readers of Drum magazine.
Jim’s musical background includes attending the University of North Texas
where he studied Drum Set with Ed Soph and Marching Percussion with Paul Renick. While at NT he performed with the nationally acclaimed
North Texas Drum Line and won 5 PASIC championships. In addition, he also performed in the Drum
Corps International Finals as a member of the 1989 Velvet Knights Drum &
Bugle Corps.
After receiving his degree from North Texas and
performing with VK, Jim moved to Kansas
City where he began to record with guitarist Jeff
Scheetz; he also took a job with Kansas City Drumworks building and selling
custom drums. Looking to further his
career as a performer Jim then moved to Nashville.
Less than a year later he was playing
with country artist Mark Chesnutt and outlaw rocker Hank Williams III. Currently,
when not touring or recording with Rascal Flatts, Jim keeps busy playing
sessions in Nashville
and giving lessons. Jim is endorsed by
Ludwig, Sabian, Vater, Remo, Shure, and Gibraltar.
Advisory Council:
Russ Chandler, Incorporator – Russ is one of the three Founding members of Momentum. A native of Columbia,
Missouri, Russ received his
Bachelor of Arts in Music degree from Missouri Western State College in
1986. During his college years, he participated in various ensembles,
such as marching and symphonic band, along with numerous percussion ensembles.
On occasion Russ performed with the St. Joseph Symphony Orchestra. In his
senior year, Mr. Chandler was elected by his band mates to be Lead Drum Major
of the Golden Griffin Marching Band. Russ is an alumnus of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia,
and has been a member of SMENC, and PAS. All through his career, he has worked
with numerous high school drum lines from areas such as St.
Joseph, Kansas City, and Columbia.
Russ was a member of the Sky Ryders Drum and Bugle
Corps in 1983 when the corps placed 12th at the DCI World
Championships in Miami, Florida. His participation in the
corps solidified his love for the marching and pageantry arts. For the
past few years, Mr. Chandler has actively volunteered for WGI and DCI events.
Russ is currently a member of the DCI Event Staff, which helps facilitate DCI
regional events across the country and the DCI World Championships each summer.
Russ is currently a Quality Systems Auditor at the
Kraft Foods Global facility in Columbia,
MO. The facility produces the
majority of Oscar Mayer hot dogs found in supermarkets across the country. Mr.
Chandler is also involved with environmental programs at the plant and helps
ensure compliance to government regulations and ISO certifications
Landon Callahan, Incorporator – Mr. Callahan is one of the three Founding members of Momentum. He is currently an
Assistant Director at East Newton High School in Missouri and he is a member of Phi Mu Alpha
Sinfonia. He has also written award winning drill for winter percussion
programs. Landon's DCI experience was attained as
a Marching Member with the Madison Scouts on trumpet. Most
recently, he was on the visual staff with The Colts Drum & Bugle
Corps. Landon received his Bachelor Degree in Music Education from Missouri State University.
Dr. Larry Tinnerman, Indiana State University - Dr. Tinnerman's performance history started in 1969 with the Casper Troopers of Casper, Wyoming as a baritone bugler. After a 3 year hiatus Larry joined the Erie Thunderbirds in 1972 and remained with them until 1978. He then performed with the Steel city Ambassadors in 1982.
As an instructor within the Junior Corps ranks, Larry served as the Staff Coordinator for the Enforcer Parade Corps from 1989 through 1992, a Consultant to the Marion Cadets in 1991, the Music Coordinator for the Golden Lancers in 1992, the Coordinator of the Enforcers parade Corps from 1993 through 1995 and was the Coordinator of the Pittsburgh Royal Crusaders in 1995.
His senior corps instructional credentials include Brass Tech and Drill Designer for the Steel City Ambassadors in 1980, Brass Tech for the Erie Thunderbirds in 1981 and 1983, Staff Coordinator and Arranger for the Erie Excalibur 1984 through ’85 and served as ensemble brass technician for the Steel City Ambassadors from 1986 through 1988, where Steel City placed in the top 3 of DCA including an undefeated regular season in 1986.
Administratively Larry served as the Director of the Pittsburgh Royal Crusaders from 1979 to 1980 and was the Director of the Tri-State Youth Federation whish included such organizations as the Enforcers and the Christmas Brass Choir. Currently, Larry consults for several drum corps programs as well as arranges music for various all age corps and bands.
Larry holds a doctorate in education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. As an undergraduate Larry majored in Psychology and Education with a minor in music composition from Edinboro University of PA.
Rich Hadfield, Past President - Mr. Hadfield was a band director in Missouri for 30 years. Most
recently he was the director at Rock Bridge High School in Columbia,
Missouri from 1980 to 2001, when he retired from his full time job. Since then, he has taught two sections of Music & Film Analysis as a part-time teacher.
Rich saw his first drum corps performance in 1973 when he was taking a marching band drill design course in Illinois. From that point forward he knew this was something he wanted to learn more about. He
attended many DCI contests at Whitewater, Wisconsin before following
his own kids around the country when they were in corps.
During
his years as a band director, Rich had 14 students who participated in
drum corps; including his daughter, Catherine, who marched Carolina
Crown in the color guard, and his twin sons, John and Gordon, who were
in Phantom Regiment Cadets in 8th grade and then performed with The Cavaliers. John
aged out as The Cavaliers drum section leader and is now a professional
percussionist in New York City and also teaches world percussion at
NYU. The work ethic and esprit de corps that came from
drum corps has had a lasting effect on Rich’s work, his students, and
especially his own children.
Lisa Wright, CPA - Lisa
is the sole practitioner of Lisa C. Wright, CPA, LLC located in Columbia, Missouri. She is currently licensed as a Certified
Public Accountant by the Department of Economic Development, Division of
Professional Registration, and Missouri State Board of Accountancy. Lisa also works with the University Council
for Educational Administration (UCEA) which is a not-for-profit organization
that helps facilitate education administration on a national level using
foundation grants.
Prior to working in
public accounting she worked for two manufacturing entities: Harris Allied, in
the credit department, and Cahokia Marine Service, where she worked in accounts
payable. Her professional affiliations
include being a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants as well as the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Culver-Stockton
College and a Master
of Accountancy - Taxation Emphasis from the University of Missouri.
Steve C. Bell, Executive Director – See Staff for Bio