
Timothy
Salzman is in his twenty-fifth year at the
University of Washington where he serves as Professor
of Music/Director of Concert Bands, is conductor of
the University Wind Ensemble and teaches students
enrolled in the graduate instrumental conducting
program. Former students from the University of
Washington occupy positions at numerous universities
and public schools throughout the United States. Prior
to his appointment at the UW he served for four years
as Director of Bands at Montana State University where
he founded the MSU Wind Ensemble. From 1978 to 1983 he
was band director in the Herscher, Illinois, public
school system where the band program received several
regional and national awards in solo/ensemble, concert
and marching band competition. Professor Salzman holds
degrees from Wheaton (IL) College (Bachelor of Music
Education), and Northern Illinois University (Master
of Music in low brass performance), and studied
privately with Arnold Jacobs, former tubist of the
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has numerous
publications for bands with the C. L. Barnhouse,
Arranger's Publications, Columbia Pictures, Hal
Leonard Publishing and Nihon Pals publishing
companies, and has served on the staff of new music
reviews for The Instrumentalist magazine. Professor
Salzman is a national artist/clinician for the Yamaha
Corporation of America and has been a conductor,
adjudicator or arranger for bands throughout the
United States and in Canada, England, South Korea,
Indonesia, Thailand, Russia, Singapore, China, and
Japan, a country he has visited twenty-one times.
During his 2011 spring term sabbatical leave he
returned for a third time to Beijing where he was in
residence at the Beijing Conservatory, conducting and
giving master classes for numerous bands including a
concert appearance at the National Center for the
Performing Arts in Tianenmen Square with the Beijing
Wind Orchestra, the first professional wind ensemble
in Beijing. He also adjudicated the Singapore Youth
Festival National Concert Band Championships. Upon his
return to the United States he conducted the UCLA Wind
Ensemble in their final concert of their academic
year. Professor Salzman is compiling editor and
co-author (with several current and former UW graduate
students) of A Composer's Insight: Thoughts, Analysis
and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind
Band, a five-volume series of books on contemporary
wind band composers published by Meredith Music
Publications, a subsidiary of the Hal Leonard
Corporation. He is an elected member of the American
Bandmasters Association and is a past president of the
Northwest Division of the College Band Directors
National Association.
Dr. Steven Morrison is
Professor and Chair of Music Education at the
University of Washington. An instrumental music
specialist, Professor Morrison teaches courses in
music education, classroom management, and research
methodology and conducts the UW Symphonic Band. He has
taught at the elementary, junior high and senior high
levels in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Louisiana and has
conducted and arranged for bands, orchestras, and
chamber groups throughout the United States.Click here
to visit Professor Morrison's webpage.
Erin Bodnar
is currently pursuing a Doctor of Musical Arts
degree in instrumental conducting at the
University of Washington, studying with Timothy
Salzman. She received a Master of Music in wind
conducting from the University of North Texas and
a Bachelor of Music in music education from the
University of Victoria. Her primary conducting
teachers at these institutions were Eugene
Corporon, Dennis Fisher and Gerald King. Erin has
participated in conducting workshops at the
University of North Texas, State University of New
York at Fredonia, and the University of Michigan,
where she had the opportunity to work with James
Jordan, Jack Stamp, Paula Holcomb, and Steve
Davis. Recently, Erin was one of three doctoral
conducting students who participated in a
masterclass with Maestro Gerard Schwarz at the
College Band Directors National Association
Conference. In 2010 she was chosen as one of
three Young Conductors for the National Band
Association’s Young Conductor and Composer
Mentorship Project. Erin has also contributed to
the GIA Teaching Music Through Performance Series
for Volume 7 and the revised Volume 1. She
excelled at teaching both middle and high school
band in Alberta, Canada for which she received the
Keith Mann Young Band Director’s Award and the
prestigious Edwin Parr First Year Teacher
Award. In addition, Erin has served on the
board of directors for the Alberta Band
Association and has presented at the ABA annual
conference. She is an accomplished bassoonist,
having performed with the University of Washington
Wind Ensemble, the New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia, the
University of North Texas Wind Symphony and the
Madera Winds. She has recorded with the University
of North Texas Wind Symphony for the GIA Teaching
Music Through Performance CD series as well as the
GIA Composer Collection CD’s.
Alison Farley
is currently working toward a PhD in Music
Education at the University of Washington. During
her time at UW she has worked as the Graduate
Assistant Director for the Husky Marching Band and
is also Assistant Conductor for the Symphonic
Band. Prior coming to Seattle, Alison attended the
University of Louisville where she earned a Master
of Music in Wind Conducting, also serving as the
Graduate Assistant for the UofL Marching
Cardinals. Formerly, she taught band and choir to
grades 6-12 in Steelville, Missouri outside of St.
Louis and previously attended the University of
Kansas, receiving a Bachelor of Music Education.
Alison’s conducting teachers include Tim Salzman,
Frederick Speck and Kimcherie Lloyd; she has
studied Horn with Bruce Heim, Paul Stevens,
Shelley Manley and Karen Robertson. Alison has had
the opportunity to perform throughout Europe and
Japan and recently worked with bands in Kumamoto,
Japan. Alison has presented her research at the
Asia-Pacific Symposium on Music Education Research
(APSMER) in Taipei, Taiwan, College Band Directors
National Association (CBDNA) Athletic Band
Symposium and Northwest Music Educators Conference
(NWMENC). Alison is active in writing drill and
arranging music for bands in Missouri, Indiana,
Kentucky, Wisconsin and Washington. Her research
interests fall into areas of cognitive psychology
and teacher training, more specifically in
motivation development and research involving
various cognitive imaging processes.
Dan McDonald is
a first year Doctor of Musical Arts student in
instrumental conducting and
serves as a
Graduate Assistant Director for the Husky Marching
Band. Dan earned both a B.A. in Music (Saxophone)
and M.M. in Conducting (Instrumental) from the
University of Connecticut where he studied with
Jeffrey Renshaw, David Mills, Michelle Holt and
Marvin McNeill. He also attended the Northeast
Conducting Symposium at Ithaca College with Craig
Kirchhoff and Stephen Peterson. Prior to his graduate work, Dan taught
grade 4-8 band and lessons in Ashford, CT and
was Director of Instrumental Music at
The Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, CT. At NFA, he
directed the award-winning Concert Band, Orchestra,
Jazz Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Chamber
Ensembles, Pep Band, and the “Wildcat” Marching
Band. At UConn, Dan was assistant conductor for the
Symphonic Band and Concert Band, as well as assisted
with undergraduate conducting. He was a graduate
assistant for the UConn Athletic Bands who performed
at the 2011 Tostito’s Fiesta Bowl and conducted the
pep band at the 2011 NCAA Men’s Basketball
Championship in Houston, TX. Dan is a member of
Music Educators National Conference, New England
Music Festival Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, College
Band Directors National Association, and World
Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles.

Nathan Rengstorf is in his second year
of study in the Master of Arts in music education
program at the University of Washington.He received
his Bachelor of Arts in music from Luther College in
Decorah, IA. While at Luther, Nathan studied French
horn and piano and played with the Symphony
Orchestra and the Concert Band. He studied
conducting with Fred Nyline and served as the
student conductor of the Wind and Percussion
Ensemble. Prior to his arrival in Seattle, Nathan
spent two years establishing school and community
music programs in Fossil, Condon, Monument and Long
Creek, Oregon. Nathan has recently played with the
University of Washington Symphony Orchestra, the
Eastern Oregon Symphony, and the Seattle
Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra. He continues to
study French horn with David Kappy.