Seven Students Participate in Intercollegiate Bands

Seven members of the Allegheny College Wind Symphony participated in the 68th Annual Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band, held at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania March 6-8. In addition, one of them was accepted to the National Small College Intercollegiate Band, held at Vanderbilt University March 25-28. The Pennsylvania Intercollegiate Band is the oldest intercollegiate band in the country. All collegiate band members from Pennsylvania are eligible to submit resumes and director recommendations, from which a selection committee chooses each year’s band. Representing Allegheny at the 2015 ICB were clarinetists Lora Waybright ’16, Kelly Pohland ’15, and Melissa Ruszczyk ’16; Daniel Kerschner ’16 on baritone saxophone; Kevin Simpson ’16 on trumpet; Christopher Nardi ’15 on euphonium; and percussionist Kyle Murphy ’16. They joined with 95 other student musicians to form a 102-member band that represented some of the finest student musicians from the state. They were accompanied by Director of Bands Lowell Hepler and Assistant Professor of Music Julie Hepler. Students from the U.S. and Canada are eligible to submit resumes in application for the National Small College Intercollegiate Band, which is a biannual event held at the College Band Directors National Association Conference. Kevin Simpson, trumpet, was selected to be part of the 2015 ensemble at Vanderbilt. Also taking part in the event were Professors Lowell and Julie Hepler, along with Assistant Director of Bands Ronald Stitt.