Students Accepted to 2015 Iowa Collegiate Honor Band

November 10, 2015

Five Buena Vista University band members have been selected to participate in the 22nd Annual Iowa Collegiate Honor Band.

Selected students include:

• Shelby Cooper – clarinet; a junior instrumental music education major from Atlantic
• Brandon Glienke – trombone; freshman corporate mathematics and accounting major from Storm Lake
• Rachel Kehrberg – clarinet; a sophomore biology and music major from Hinton
• Jacalyn Schubring – flute/piccolo; a senior instrumental music education major from Germantown, Wis.
• Kelsey Struck – French horn; a senior instrumental music education major from Storm Lake

This year marks Buena Vista University's 17th year with students participating in the honor band.

The honor band will rehearse Nov. 20-21 in Nevada, Iowa, at the Josephine Tope Community Auditorium at the Nevada High School, with a finale concert at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 21 at the same location. This event is open to the public and free to attend.

This year's guest conductor for the Iowa Collegiate Honor Band is Dr. Scott Weiss, director of bands and Sarah Bolick Smith Distinguished Professor of Music at the University of South Carolina (USC). Weiss conducts the USC Wind Ensemble, teaches and administers the graduate wind conducting program, and oversees all aspects of the university's band program. Previous positions include director of bands at the University of Kansas, associate director of bands at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, and director of bands at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He also has nine years of public school teaching experience, including six years as director of bands at Harrison High School in Cobb County, Ga., where his wind ensemble was featured at the 1999 Midwest Clinic.