DR. BRIAN A. COFFILL, D.M.A., (he/him), is a conductor and pedagogue committed to equity and inclusion in student musical achievement, the performance of works by historically-excluded composers, and the development of twenty-first century performance experiences for musicians and audiences alike. Equally at home making creative and collaborative music with a wide variety of instrumental ensembles, this flexibility has gained him national recognition while serving as the Founding Director of Instrumental Ensembles and Assistant Professor of Music at Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia.

In his role at Randolph-Macon as Assistant Professor of Music, Brian serves as the coordinator of the music education curriculum and teaches additional courses in conducting, music theory, orchestration, recording technology, and the systemic influence of race and gender in music. In addition, he is the coordinator for instrumental applied lessons as well as the creator and coordinator of the January-Term Chamber Ensemble program. Beyond his duties at the college, he is also a member of the teaching faculty at the GreenSpring International Academy of Music in nearby Richmond, Virginia, where he conducts the GreenSpring Chamber Orchestra. He is also the State Chair of the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA) Student Composition Festival and serves on the VMEA Council for Creativity and Innovation. He maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States.

Prior to arriving at Randolph-Macon, Brian earned a Doctor of Musical Arts (D.M.A.) degree in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Maryland, while also serving as Assistant Conductor of the Maryland Wind Orchestra, Wind Ensemble, and Lab Orchestra. His studies included wind, orchestral, chamber, and opera conducting under Dr. Michael Votta, Jr., Prof. James Ross (Alexandria Symphony & Orquestra Simfònica del Vallès - Barcelona), Prof. José-Luis Novo (Annapolis Symphony), Prof. Craig Kier (Annapolis Opera), Col. Jason Fettig (President's Own United States Marine Band), and Dr. John Devlin (Wheeling Symphony). His performance of Charles Ives' Decoration Day with the Maryland Wind Ensemble gained national recognition as a finalist for the 2018-2019 Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music. He earned a Master of Music degree in Instrumental Conducting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was an Associate Conductor for the university’s many concert and athletic bands, including the famed Illinois Wind Symphony and Marching Illini; he also served as an Assistant Conductor with the Lab Orchestra. His mentors at Illinois included Dr. Linda Moorhouse, Prof. Donald Schleicher, Prof. Barry Houser, and Dr. J. Ashley Jarrell. He also earned the degrees of Bachelor of Arts (Music) and Bachelor of Science (Education) from the University of Connecticut, playing Horn in the UConn Symphony Orchestra, new music-focused Wind Ensemble, and athletic bands, also serving for two years as Head Drum Major of the Pride of Connecticut, the University of Connecticut Marching Band. Between undergraduate and graduate studies, he held positions conducting high school bands and orchestras in the public schools of Arlington County, Virginia and Carroll County, Maryland.

Groups at Randolph-Macon College under Dr. Coffill's baton have performed his genre-bending repertoire choices in a variety of settings across the country and have been invited to share their unique musical vision with conductors and educators across the country at venues including the 2022 Virginia Music Educators Association Professional Development Conference and the 2022 College Band Directors National Association Southern Division Conference, on the campus of the University of South Carolina.The Ensemble's founding was funded in part by a major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Dr. Coffill's diverse academic interests include promoting the inclusive expansion of the instrumental repertoire, interpreting the works of iconoclastic composer Charles Ives, and investigating the many connections between the quintessential American institutions of Baseball and the Wind Band. He has been invited to present his scholarly research on a variety of subjects across the United States, most notably at the 31st Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as well as multiple College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) national and regional conferences; his research has been published by the CBDNA Journal.

A major portion of his baseball research consists of resurrecting, transcribing, and re-scoring H. R. Hempel's Cubs On Parade March Two-Step, a long-forgotten march that celebrated the 1907 World-Champion Chicago Cubs. He conducted his re-scored version of Cubs on Parade in concert with the University of Illinois Wind Orchestra in 2015, and is happy to take partial credit for Cubs' ensuing playoff success. Additional arrangements are published by Classics Revisited.

Brian is a member of various professional and service organizations in music, music education, and academic research including the American String Teachers Association (ASTA), the College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA), the National Association for Music Education (NAfME), the Virginia Music Educators Association (VMEA), the Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association (VBODA), the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), and the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). He is an inducted member of Kappa Kappa Psi and an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma.

A fervent Red Sox fan despite growing up on the New York side of Connecticut's "Munson-Nixon Line," Brian has lived across the river from Nationals Park, down the street from Camden Yards, and deep in disputed Cubs-Cardinals territory. He currently resides near the AA Flying Squirrels ballpark in Richmond, Virginia.

Joseph P. Scott currently teaches at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, WA where he directs the Wind Ensemble and teaches courses in music education and music theory. Prior to this appointment, Joseph served as conductor of the College of the Holy Cross Wind Ensemble & Orchestra and assistant conductor of the University of Maryland’s Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. Joseph served as music director and conductor of the Maryland Community Band based in College Park, MD. In addition to leading ensembles, Joseph's teaching experience includes undergraduate-level conducting classes and guest lectures in music education and ensemble leadership. Joseph was recently a guest conductor with the University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra and frequently serves as an adjudicator in California and Maryland for solo and large ensemble festivals as well as honor bands. Before starting at the University of Maryland, Joseph was the Director of Instrumental Music at Clayton Valley Charter High School in Concord, California, where he was responsible for conducting the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Orchestra, Jazz Band, and Marching Band, as well as instructing Advanced Placement Music Theory. Joseph also taught at Mount St. Mary's University where he directed the Pep Band and was a guest conductor of the wind ensemble.

Joseph earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from the University of Oregon where he studied with Dr. Wayne Bennett and Robert Ponto. While at the University of Oregon, Joseph was a founding member of the university’s chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi. After graduating, he returned to San Francisco where he received his teaching credential from San Francisco State University. While at SFSU, Joseph was on staff at the Ruth Asawa School of the Arts where he conducted the Concert Band and taught Music Theory and Survey classes. Joseph is a member of the College Band Directors National Association as well as the National Association for Music Education and served for three years as a board member of the California Music Educators Association-Bay Section.

In 2019, the American Prize selected Joseph as the Ernst Bacon Award Honorable Mention for his performance of Adolphus Hailstork’s American Guernica. This award “recognizes and rewards the best performances of American music by ensemble and individual artists worldwide…”. Joseph was selected as a semi-finalist for the 2019 American Prize in wind conducting and was also selected as a semi-finalist in 2018. Joseph was a tier one conductor for the 2017 Frederick Fennell Memorial Conducting Masterclass at the Eastman School of Music where he worked with Mark Scatterday, Donald Hunsberger, and Craig Kirchhoff. Other conducting teachers include David Neely, Jose Luis Novo, James Ross, and Matthew Hall. Joseph completed a Masters of Music in conducting from the University of Maryland in the spring of 2018.

While in the Bay Area, Joseph kept an active schedule playing the clarinet, performing with the Contra Costa Chamber Orchestra, Chabot Wind Symphony, Golden Gate Park Band, and the San Francisco Wind Ensemble, which performed at the World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles in 2015 and recorded its inaugural CD at Skywalker Ranch in 2014.

Dr. David Wacyk serves as Director of Instrumental Ensembles and Assistant Teaching Professor of Music at University of Missouri- St. Louis where he conducts the UMSL Orchestra, UMSL Wind Ensemble, chamber ensembles, and teaches conducting.

David's scholarship focuses on modernist and avant-garde wind music of twentieth century. Additionally David has led discussions related to re-evaluating existing systems of concertizing and programming, and addressing systemic inadequacies in the field of wind bands. Recently he has accepted invitations to present at CBDNA (Symphonies of Winds: toward a new understanding of pitch structure, and The Intelligence of Sound: matters of ethos and style in the wind music of Edgard Varese), IGEB (The Wind Music of Ida Gotkovsky), WMEA (The Future is Flexible: Small bands as leaders in creativity, and DNMC (New Music and New Paradigms: an honest conversation on the future of college ensembles).

David holds the Doctor of Musical Arts degree and Master of Music degree in Conducting from University of Maryland, and a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Western Michigan University. David maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor and clinician throughout the United States. He resides in Yelm, Washington with his wife Laurel, and son Roger.