2022 National Conference Sioux Falls

Dr. Andrew Hayward is director of the Viking Marching Band and assistant director of bands at Augustana University. Prior to joining Augustana, Dr. Hayward was Director of Bands in West Palm Beach, Florida where he debuted a marching band, competitive indoor group, and a music curriculum.Originally... Read More →

Dr. Charles W. Lynch III is the Harp Specialist for Mesa Public Schools (Mesa, AZ), directing a program which includes over 240 harp students at sixteen MPS junior and senior high schools. He is also Faculty Associate in Harp at Arizona State University and faculty for the Midwest... Read More →

Vincent Pierce is principal harpist for the Midland-Odessa(TX)Symphony and Chorale and the former director of the Ector County (TX) Independent School District harp program. He served as adjunct instructor of harp at the University of Texas Permian Basin and at Odessa College and... Read More →

Chief Musician Megan Sesma joined the United States Coast Guard Band in 2003 as the first enlisted harpist in the history of the band. Chief Sesma was the 2013 recipient of the Latina Style Award for the Coast Guard, an honor presented annually to one active-duty female in the Coast... Read More →

Chief Warrant Officer Jeffrey A. Spenner is Assistant Director of the United States Coast Guard Band, wherein addition to conducting he oversees all of the band’s education and outreach programs.  CWO Spenner is a veteran of the 399th Army Band at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, where... Read More →