
Timothy Salzman
is in his twenty-sixth 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,
music psychology, 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
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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.
Dan
McDonald is a second year Doctor of Musical
Arts student in instrumental conducting at the
University of Washington and serves as a Graduate
Assistant Director for the Husky Marching Band and
UW Campus Band. Dan earned a B.A. in Music
(Saxophone) and M.M. in Instrumental Conducting.
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 (NFA)
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, and also 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.

Cory Meals is
currently working toward his Ph.D. in Music
Education at the University of Washington and serves
as a Graduate Assistant Director for the Husky
Marching Band, and the UW Symphonic Band.
Previously, he served as Director of Bands for
Waller High School (2006-2010), northwest of
Houston, TX. During his tenure there ensembles
received numerous ‘Superior’ ratings and UIL
"Sweepstakes" awards, and advanced each year
eligible to the prestigious UIL 4A Texas State
Marching Contest (2007, 2009). He has also held
instructional positions in Klein ISD (TX), and
Keller ISD (TX), and holds a Bachelor's Degree in
Instrumental Music Education from VanderCook College
of Music (IL) where he studied under Dr. Charles
Menghini. Most recently he was Graduate Teaching
Assistant for the University of Houston Band
program, earning a Master of Music degree in
Instrumental Wind Conducting with Prof. David
Bertman and Mr. Eddie Green. He is an active member
of CBDNA, TMEA, TBA, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa
Kappa Psi and maintains an active schedule as a
visual designer, program consultant, and ensemble
clinician.

Jiannan Cheng
is from Chengdu, China and is in her first year at
the University of Washington School of Music where
she is enrolled in the MM program in instrumental
conducting. She just received her Bachelor’s degree
in choral conducting from the China Conservatory of
Music (Beijing) in July of 2012. During her
undergraduate study, Jiannan studied choral
conducting with Prof. Lingfen Wu and instrumental
conducting with Dr. Youqing Yang. She also served as
conductor of the College of Computer and Information
Choir at Renming University of China, Beijing; the
No. 5 Middle and High School Choir; and the Beijing
Children’s Palace Choir. Additionally, she founded
the College of Civil Engineering Choir at Tsinghua
University in May of 2010. Jiannan started her
musical training when she was quite young and, in
additional to singing, plays piano, violin and
flute.