Chris Parks, Director of BU Bands
Mr. Parks is the Director of the Boston University Bands, which provides quality music opportunities for members of the Boston University community. Mr. Parks' has also been Director of Athletic Bands since 2001. In addition to Athletic Bands, Mr. Parks conducts the Boston University Concert Band.

Mr. Parks grew up in El Paso Texas, where he attended the University of Texas at El Paso. After receiving his Bachelors of Music Education in El Paso, he moved to Boston to pursue his Masters in Trumpet Performance, which he completed in 1995. Upon graduating, Chris spent 5 years touring nationally and internationally with numerous Broadway musicals, including The King & I and The Sound of Music. He has toured with Marie Osmond and John Davidson and has performed with Julio Iglesias, Bobby Shew and Dizzy Gillespie.

Mr. Parks has been a member of the faculty/staff of the Tanglewood Institute, the Atlantic Brass Quintet Seminar, Southwind Drum and Bugle Corps, The Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps and the Drum Major Academy.

Jennifer Bill, Woodwind Clinician
Saxophonist, Jennifer Bill performs solo and chamber music with a variety of groups around southern New England, including the Back Bay
Saxophone Quartet.   In December of 2005 she was a guest soloist with the Boston University Wind Ensemble, performing John Harbison's San Antonio. In the spring of 2006 she was a guest conductor with the Providence College concert band. She has premiered numerous works including Quartet for Saxophones by Mei-mi Lan in 2003, Perpetual Dejavu by Colin Stack in 2002, and Three American Dances by Edward Mascari in 2000.  Ms. Bill has recently premiered works by Howard Frazin, John McDonald and Shih-Hui Chen as part of Worldwide Concurrent Premieres in 2005.  She has participated in national and world conferences including the World Saxophone Congress in 2003 and the North American Saxophone Alliance national conference in 2000.  She was also a national finalist at the Music Teachers National Association Collegiate Chamber Music Competition in 1999.

Ms. Bill currently is a Special Lecturer at Providence College teaching Theory, Saxophone, and Chamber music. She is also the Saxophone Instructor and Wind Ensemble Coordinator for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She received her education from Providence College and The Boston Conservatory, and is currently completing her Doctorate of Musical Arts degree at Boston University.

John Faieta, Brass Clinician
John Faieta has performed as trombonist with the Atlantic Brass Quintet since 1985. John Faieta and the Atlantic Brass have won numerous first-prize awards, such as the Coleman Chamber Music Competition; First Summit Brass International Brass Ensemble Competition; Carmel Chamber Music Competition; and Shoreline Alliance Competition, with debut performance in Carnegie Hall. Mr Faieta has also performed with the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, the Boston Ballet, the Boston Pops Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He is Principal Trombonist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and the Nashua Symphony Orchestra.

John has studied with Ronald Barron, Lawrence Isaacson, Norman Bolter, Scott Hartman and Joseph Alessi. He is a member of the faculty at the Boston Conservatory and Boston University College of Fine Arts.

David J. Martins, Wind Ensemble Conductor
David J. Martins is Professor of Music at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Adjunct Professor of Music at Boston University. He has degrees from the Eastman School of Music and the University of Lowell, College of Music and was a recipient of a Berkshire Music Festival Tanglewood Fellowship.

With a dual career as a performer & conductor, David J. Martins balances orchestral & chamber venues with an active teaching and conducting schedule. He is the Music Director of the University of Massachusetts Lowell Wind Ensemble, Boston University Wind Ensemble, Rhode Island Philharmonic Youth Wind Ensemble and the Lowell Summer Concert Band. Mr. Martins is Music Director Emeritus of the Metropolitan Wind Symphony, which during his tenure of ten years performed at the National Conference of the Association of Concert Bands and commissioned numerous new compositions. During the past several years, he has been in demand as a guest conductor and has conducted Festival ensembles throughout the Eastern United States. Since the summer of 1999 Mr. Martins has served on the faculty of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute as Director of Wind Activities for the Young Artist Orchestra and since the summer of 2005 conducts the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Wind Ensemble.

He is a member of the clarinet section of the Rhode Island Philharmonic and Boston Classical Orchestras and appears frequently with the Springfield Symphony, ProArte Chamber Orchestra, Boston Ballet Orchestra and Alea III. He has also performed with the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Musica Viva, Monadnock Music Festival and New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra. In past years he has toured with the Philharmonia Hungarica Orchestra of Germany on their USA tours, the Puccini Festival Orchestra throughout Italy, and has performed six tours throughout Greece and Russia as soloist and member of the contemporary chamber ensemble Alea III. He can be heard on orchestral and chamber recordings on the CRI, Koch,Titanic, Gasparo and Albany labels. Mr Martins is a Boosey & Hawkes/Buffet artist clinician.

Mark Miller, All Campus Orchestra Conductor
Conductor, clarinetist, and composer Mark Miller is well-known as a performer and teacher in eastern Massachusetts. For many years he has been an assistant conductor of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, where he works with the Senior Orchestra and its chamber orchestras. He also conducts the chamber orchestra at the Community Music Center of Boston. As a clarinetist, he serves as principal clarinet of the Plymouth Philharmonic, and has performed with the Cape Cod Symphony, ALEA III, Hyperprisms, the New Bedford Symphony, the Boston Philharmonic, the Central Massachusetts Symphony, and the Scarborough Chamber Players. With the wind quintet Arcadian Winds, specializing in contemporary music, he has premiered countless new works and performed most of the classics of the chamber music repertoire. He has appeared as clarinet soloist with the Cape Cod Symphony Orchestra, Harvard's Mozart Society Orchestra, and the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. As a conductor, he has led many concerts by the various GBYSO orchestras, and has conducted the 2004 Rhode Island All-State Orchestra, the 2001 Massachusetts Southeast District Festival Orchestra, the orchestras at the Summer Youth Music School at the University of New Hampshire, the North Shore Philharmonic, and the South Shore Conservatory Summer Wind Ensemble. He has also coached orchestras and orchestra wind sections at Harvard, Brandeis, Wellesley, and the Longy School. During the summer season, he has been a frequent performer at the Warebrook (Vermont) Contemporary Music Festival and has coached for the Chamber Music Center at Wellesley College.

Mr. Miller currently teaches clarinet at the Community Music Center of Boston, St. Mark's School, and at Foxborough High School, where he also conducts the clarinet choir. He has been commissioned to write several substantial works for Foxborough's bands and wind ensembles. His original compositions and arrangements have been performed by Arcadian Winds and the Arcadian Chamber Orchestra; his wind quintet arrangements are quite popular and have been performed by quintets throughout North America and Europe.

Mr. Miller was born and raised in Pensacola, Florida, and attended the Florida State University, where he earned degrees in composition and clarinet performance. He holds a master's degree in composition from Boston University. He has studied clarinet with Eugene Gonzalez, Fred Ormand, and Michael Webster, and composition with Harold Schiffman, Theodore Antoniou, Joyce Mekeel, and Robert Sirota. Mr. Miller appears as clarinet soloist on several recordings by the Zamir Chorale of Boston, and his compositions, arrangements and transcriptions for wind quintet have been performed and recorded by Arcadian Winds. He makes his home in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

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John Holguin, All Campus Orchestra Manager
John Holguin grew up in El Paso, TX where in 2005 he received a B.M. in Music Education, cum laude. During his time at the University of Texas at El Paso, John spent four years with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra, and performed with the Las Cruces Symphony Orchestra in New Mexico as well as the Symphony Orchestra in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Other performances have included accompanying such stars as Yvonne Elliman, Barry Dennen, Danny Zolli and Chuck Wagner.

In addition to being a classically trained violist, John began performing Mexican mariachi music with Mariachi Los Pasajeros in 2001, and has recently helped form and co-direct Mariachi Boston. In May 2008, Mariachi Boston performed at the Massachusetts State House where they garnered attention for Hispanic Writers Week and serenaded Governor Duval Patrick.

From 2006-2007, John taught middle school orchestra in the El Paso Independent School District. John is currently completing his M.M. in Music Education and continues to teach privately and perform in the Boston area.

Zachary deVries, Graduate Assistant
A native of Islip Terrace, New York, Zachary deVries received his Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts, where he is currently a Master of Music candidate in Music Education. His musical endeavors have placed him on stage with Philip Smith, Joseph Alessi, Stanley Drucker, Carol Wincenc, and Pat Sheridan. In his thirteen-year career as a tubist, Zachary has performed at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, and Symphony Hall, as well as Madison Square Garden, Shea Stadium and Fenway Park.

At Boston University, Zachary is the Graduate Assistant for the Boston University Bands, which provides music-making opportunities for over 450 non-music majors from 11 colleges at the University. As the Graduate Assistant, Zachary serves as the assistant conductor for the Concert Band, Pep Band, Scarlet Band and works on the artistic and musical staff of the Marching Band. Zachary completed his student teaching in the Wellesley Public Schools where he conducted the award winning Wellesley High School Wind Ensemble and 2:00 Jazz Band. In the summer of 2008, Zachary served as the teaching assistant for the Boston University Tanglewood Institute Tuba/Euphonium Workshop.

Zachary currently studies with Mike Roylance, principal tubist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Zachary’s past teachers include tubists Bill Troiano, Willie Clark, and Pat Sheridan as well as conductors David Martins and William McManus.