SPARK! WGAZ & Arcadia Music & Arts Symposium - Feb 4 & 5

February 4 and 5 is a great opportunity to gain some knowledge from three leaders in the music industry and marching arts.

Composer and producer David Nahmani has co-written and co-produced songs for the MTV series The Real World and Undressed. He also engineered and produced three classical albums on Decca Records/BMG for the Bernard Calmel Orchestra in Paris, France. He has released tracks and remixes on Cleopatra Records, has licensed songs and composed for TV and film, and programmed XF MIDI songs for Yamaha (using Logic Pro). He teaches how to use Logic for Apple public events, such as Remix Hotel, Taxi Road Rally, and Ascap Music Expo. He is the director of the Los Angeles Logic Pro User Group and publisher of LogicProHelp.com. David comes to us this weekend to help us understand Logic and MainStage, live vs studio mixing and recording.

Matt Jordan, from Nashville, is currently the Concert Percussion Marketing Manager for Pearl Corporation/Adams Musical Instruments, and Adjunct Professor of Percussion at Middle Tennessee State University. He is currently the front ensemble arranger for Music City Mystique. Matt has taught/arranged for numerous other groups throughout the world, including Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, Carolina Crown, Spirit of Atlanta, Max Percussion (Bangkok, Thailand), Bangkok Society Drumline, Franklin High School, Seminole High School, and Father Ryan High School. He will be working with students on the floor during Saturday's Percussion Eval show as well as leading the course on composition and orchestration of the front ensemble.

Tony Nunez, a familiar face to WGAZ, is the percussion arranger and visual designer at South Hills HS, and the battery arranger and visual designer at Arcadia HS. Tony also serves as a sound designer at Music City Mystique, Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, and is the percussion arranger for Mandarins Drum and Bugle Corps. He also serves as a music consultant, arranger, and sound designer for many high school and independent ensembles in the United States and France.

Over 6 sessions, focus will be on percussion composition and orchestration, live mixing, program design, and the financial path to WGI World Championships. A seventh session will be question and answer time.

Attendance is open to all band directors - marching and concert, orchestra, field marching and indoor marching, even band boosters could attend the session on financial path to WGI World Championships!

$5 for WGAZ members, $20 for non WGAZ members - you won't get this much knowledge for this low price anywhere else or ever again!

Spark will be at Williams Field High School; Feb 4 and 5, 2017; see flyer for course description and times.