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 Jay
Wardeska, Director of Bands
Jay Wardeska serves as Director
of Bands at Brunswick High School and Instrumental Music Teacher for the
Brunswick City Schools. Mr. Wardeska's teaching duties include the Wind
Ensemble, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Marching Band, Pit Orchestra,and Pep Band
at Brunswick High School. In addition, Mr. Wardeska team teaches the
middle school bands at Edwards and Willetts Middle Schools. In his
eighteenth year as a music educator, Mr. Wardeska holds a Master of Music
degree in Instrumental Conducting from Kent State University and a Bachelor
of Music Education degree from Mount Union College where he graduated with
honors. Prior to coming to Brunswick, Mr. Wardeska has held
teaching positions at Buckeye High School (Medina, Ohio) and Kent State
University.
Mr. Wardeska has been the
recipient of a number of honors and appointments. In 2007, Mr.
Wardeska was the recipient of the National Excellence in Teacher Award from
the College of Wooster. Mr. Wardeska
received the Citation of Excellence from the National Band Association for
“Outstanding Contributions to Bands and Band Music.” He has been named the
Runner-up Veteran of Foreign Wars (VFW) Teacher of the Year. He was the
recipient of the Kent State University Director of Bands Award and the
Lucille B. Ketcham Prize in Music. He has been named as a Martha Holding
Jennings Foundation Jennings Scholar. He was a 2000 Inductee into the Pi
Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society and has been named multiple times
in Who's Who Among American Teachers. He has served for many years as a
guest conductor for the Wooster Music Camp at the College of Wooster--a
position which he will hold in 2007. Mr. Wardeska holds memberships in the
Music Educators National Conference, OMEA, the National Band Association,
the International Association of Jazz Educators, the International Trumpet
Guild, the National Education Association and the Ohio Alliance for Arts
Education.
Mr. Wardeska has served the Ohio
Music Education Association (OMEA) extensively. He has served as
District President, the All-State Performing Ensembles Task Force Chair, the
All-State Performing Ensembles Chairman, and as a member of the state board.
He has served as a clinician for the OMEA Professional Conferences and the
North East Ohio Education Association as well as for several high school and
middle school bands in Ohio. Mr. Wardeska continues to serve OMEA as an
active adjudicator.
Michelle Neubauer, Assistant
Director/Woodwind Coordinator
Michelle
Neubauer serves as band director at Willetts Middle School and Towslee
Elementary.
Miss Neubauer is the assistant band director at Brunswick High School where
she co-directors the award-winning Brunswick High School Concert Band.
Miss Neubauer has served on the staff for the Marching Blue Devils since
2003. Previously, Ms. Neubauer taught 5th and 6th grade band in the Elyria
School District, and also taught choir and general music in North Royalton
City Schools. Her additional experiences include teaching at
Baldwin-Wallace College, teaching privately through Brunswick schools, and
teaching at summer band and orchestra programs. Ms. Neubauer is a member of
MENC, OMEA, NEA, and several music and academic honor societies, and she is
currently pursuing her Master's Degree in Music Education at the University
of Michigan.
Brian Bennett, Percussion Coordinator
Mr.
Bennett earned his Bachelor of Music degree in Music Performance from Kent
State University, and a Master of Music degree in Music Performance and
Literature, along with the coveted Performer’s Certificate from the famed
Eastman School of Music. He has been teaching and arranging in the
percussion idiom since 1990. At Eastman, Mr. Bennett played with the
school’s Balinese gamelan angklung and spent one month touring Japan with
the world-renowned Eastman Wind Ensemble. Mr. Bennett serves as the
marching band percussion and concert percussion instructor for Brunswick
High School, and teaches the percussion sections at Edwards, Visintainer and
Willetts Middle Schools. In addition to his duties at Brunswick, Mr.
Bennett is the percussion professor and conductor of the Percussion Ensemble
at the Kent State University Stark Campus.
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