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JARI VILLANUEVA, Principal Musician, (Catonsville, MD)
Jari is a musician and historian. He has sounded Taps at Arlington National Cemetery at least 1,700
times over twenty-two years as a military bandsman. A graduate of The Peabody Conservatory of The
Johns Hopkins University and Kent State University, he was the curator of the Taps Exhibit at Arlington
and is the author of Twenty Four Notes That Tap Deep Emotions, the history of the bugle call Taps. He has
arranged volumes of Civil War music for brass quintet, and published articles on the history of bugle calls
and brass bands of the Civil War. Jari is an active Civil War re-enactor, sounding bugle calls for Co. D, 3rd
U. S. Infantry and as Chief Bugler for Vincent's Brigade. He has served as over-all Federal Principal
Musician for major events such as the 140th Manassas re-enactment and the 140th Antietam re-
enactment and as head of music faculty for the Don Hubbard Field Music School (formerly the Eastern
Field Music School), held annually at Ft. Delaware. Jari is also on the music faculty at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County, where he directs the Concert Band, Pep Band, and Jazz Ensemble.
RICHARD BERGREN, E Flat Alto, B Flat Tenor (Upper Marlboro, MD)
A graduate of Michigan State University's School of Music, Dick pursued a career as a Naval Flight Officer.
While Director of the Naval Air Training Command Choir, he earned his Master's Degree in Public
Administration from Troy State University. He performed as Principal Trumpet with the Guam Symphony
Orchestra and as Bugler with the U.S. Army's Ceremonial Mounted Unit, B Troop in Fort Huachuca,
Arizona. A member of Patuxent Martial Music, he performed with them as the 1814 Fort McHenry Guard
Band and as an 1850's era brass band in the movie Washington Square. Dick has been a Confederate re-
enactment bugler since 1983, as a member of the 2nd Maryland Infantry, Company A and the 1st North
Carolina Cavalry, Company D. In 1986 he recorded the sound track of bugle calls for the BBC production
of The Divided Union. He also appeared on screen in that series and in a National Park Service film on
the Battle of the Wilderness. He was Chief Confederate Bugler at the 125th anniversary reenactment of
the Battle of Gettysburg. As Bugler and Past Commander of the Private Wallace Bowling Camp 1400, Sons
of Confederate Veterans, Dick has performed on the bugle, cornet and baritone horn in numerous
historical pageants and ceremonies. Besides his interest in brass instruments, he sings tenor with the
Southern Maryland Sound Chorus and with Drum Point Light, a barbershop quartet.
JOHN F. BIENIARZ, E Flat Bass (New Hampton, NH; Alexandria, VA)
John is a retired Laconia (NH) police officer, Civil War historian and musical instrument collector. He is a
graduate of the Butera School of Arts, Boston, Mass., with diplomas in Commercial and Fine Arts. John is
a self-taught musician and says he operates on passion. He founded the 12th New Hampshire Regiment
Serenade Band, New Hampton, NH and also has played Saxhorn with the Centennial Brass Band in
Portland, Maine. He has been a Tubist with the Lakes Region Symphony and was a founding member of
the Carter Mountain Brass Band. John still frequently travels to New Hampshire with his wife, Rebecca, to
perform with the 12th New Hampshire Regiment Serenade Band.
REBECCA D. BOSTRON, E Flat Alto (Sykesville, MD)
Rebecca graduated from the University of Delaware as a Music Education major and a Church Music
minor in January 2005. Last year she completed her internship at Newark United Methodist Church
where she assisted with the youth and adult ringing and singing choirs. Rebecca performed as a member
of nearly every university ensemble from the marching band, to chamber groups, to orchestras. After
being bitten by the 'early music bug' her first year at UD, she played in many early music ensembles there
and became a founding member of Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band. Rebecca teaches elementary
music in the Fairfax County Public School System (VA) and is a member of the Virginia Bronze.
GARMAN L. BOWERS JR., Percussion (Fairplay, MD)
Garman received a Music Education Degree from Shepherd College, WV and has a Master's Equivalence
in Music Education. A drummer since 1964, he was the Timpanist for the Maryland Theater Orchestra
from 1970-1980. He is the Principal Percussionist for the Williamsport Community Band, Washington
Co., MD. Nominated and accepted in the Seventh Edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2002,
he recently retired as Music Department Head and Instrumental Music Educator at Springfield Middle
School in Williamsport, MD.
GARMAN L. BOWERS III, Percussion, Utility (Fairplay, MD)
G. BRIAN CARDELL, E Flat Bass, B Flat Baritone (Baltimore, MD)
LEE CARON, Percussion (Arlington, VA)
Lee Caron is known as a rudimental snare drum specialist. Besides being a percussion section member
of The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, 3rd US Infantry (Escort to the President), Washington D.C., he is
also a free lance percussionist. Lee is an avid educator of the New England style of rudimental
drumming, including private teaching, drum line instruction, and presenting master classes/clinics at
schools and summer programs. He has taken first place in many rudimental snare drum competitions in
Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Lee studied at The Hartt School with Benjamin
Toth and at The Boston Conservatory with Patrick Hollenbeck and Nancy Zeltsman. He can also be seen
performing with the award winning Connecticut Patriots Fife and Drum Corps. Lee is endorsed by
Cooperman drums and Silver Fox sticks.
PAUL DELUCA, B Flat Cornet, E Flat Cornet (Belcamp, MD)
Paul grew up in the Buffalo, NY region, studying with Geoff Richter (Graduate of Eastman School of Music,
Director of Bands at Williamsville North HS) and Charles Gleaves (Buffalo Philharmonic). He is a 1982
graduate of Syracuse University with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, performing with the SU Wind
Ensemble, Concert and Marching Bands during that time. Paul has freelanced in the Baltimore area
since 1985, holding regular positions with many local community groups including the Baltimore
Symphonic Band, the Hopkins Symphony, the Bel Air Community Band, the Maryland Early Brass
Consort, and the Greenspring Valley Orchestra. Always interested in authentic music performances, he
has recently ventured into the Civil War era, playing with the Federal City Brass Band since 2004, and
the Newberry Victorian Cornet Band since 2003.
THEODORE E. DIETZ, Percussion (Pasadena, MD)
Ted is a U.S. Air Force Vietnam Veteran and former member of the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps.
He has performed with many fife and drum corps, bagpipe bands, and as a percussionist and mallet player
with orchestras and ensembles in various venues including the Kennedy Center. He has performed
under the direction of Leon Fleischer, Saul Lillienstein and Ronald Gretz, and studied with Edna Backlor.
He also performs with the Annapolis Opera Company as a tenor in the opera chorus. Ted has served as
Principal Musician for Union forces at the Battle of South Mountain reenactment and Landis Valley
living history encampments, and as solo drummer at Mifflin Guard drill competitions. He was formerly
Principal Musician for Co. B of the 28th Massachusetts, the Irish Volunteers.
REBECCA L. DOUCETTE, E Flat Cornet (New Hampton, NH; Alexandria, VA)
Rebecca holds a B. A. with Honors in Music from Williams College and attended Mannes College of
Music, New York City. She studies trumpet with Charlie Lewis of the Empire Brass and Dr. Robert Birch,
former U.S. Navy Band cornet soloist, Washington, D.C. In 2004, after serving as first trumpet with the
39th Army National Guard Band, Manchester, NH, she transferred to the 257th Army Band, "Band of the
Nation's Capital," Washington, DC as Principal Trumpet and Readiness NCO. In April 2006 she
transferred to the National Guard Bureau, Arlington, VA as a Public Affairs Videographer, graduating as
Distinguished Honor Graduate from the Defense Information School, Ft. Meade, MD in August, 2006.
Rebecca has taught trumpet and coached brass ensembles at the Concord Community Music School and
St. Paul's School, both in Concord, NH. She has performed with the Centennial Brass Band, Portland,
Maine and Boston's Commonwealth Brass, and is a former member of the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra
and former Principal Trumpet of the New Hampshire Philharmonic. Rebecca still travels up to NH to
perform as principal musician/E-flat cornet with the 12th New Hampshire Regiment Serenade Band.
MARK A. ELROD, E Flat Bass (Germantown, MD)
Mark is an internationally known musicologist, historian and collector of antique brass instruments. He
retired from the U. S. Army in 1998 with over twenty-eight years of combined service with the U.S. Army
and Marine Corps, including service as a combat artilleryman and helicopter door gunner in Vietnam, as
a musician (bugler) with the Army's principal ceremonial unit, the 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry ("The Old
Guard") at Fort Myer, VA, and as a musician with the prestigious United States Marine Band ("The
President's Own"). He holds a B. S. degree in Industrial Arts from Salem College in Salem, WV. Mark is the
author of A Pictorial History of Civil War Era Musical Instruments and Military Bands, the definitive
reference work on American Civil War era band instruments, bands and music. While attending the
Catholic University School of Music, he co-founded the Heritage Americana Band, a performance
ensemble dedicated to the performance of Civil War era wind band music on original period instruments.
Although officially retired from the military, Mark never seems to tire of putting on his old uniform as
evidenced by his part time on call contract job as a uniformed bugler at funerals for American service
veterans with the Maryland National Guard Honor Guard.
JEB HAGUE, B Flat Cornet, E Flat Cornet (Lansdale, PA)
Jeb is a 2005 graduate in Music Education from The Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State,
he played in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble, the Penn State Blue
Band, and various chamber ensembles. Outside of college, Jeb has been a re-enactor for over 18 years,
playing fife, drum, and bugle. He has performed with the Camp Chase Fifes and Drums, the Maryland Line
Field Music, the Regimental Fifes and Drums of Fort Delaware, and the 28th Pennsylvania Regimental
Brass Band. He can also be seen playing fife, drum and Bb cornet in the movie Gods and Generals. Jeb is
a fife instructor at the Don Hubbard Field Music School and a member of the 71st Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, the "California Regiment."
DOUGLAS HEDWIG, B Flat Cornet (Patterson, NY)
Douglas Hedwig is presently Professor of Trumpet and Director of Brass Instrument Studies at Brooklyn
College of The City University of New York. He previously served on the Music History Faculty of The
Juilliard School. For 27 years he served as Trumpeter with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New
York City. As a member of the Metropolitan Brass Quartet he recorded three albums, and toured
internationally to critical acclaim: "A model of infectious spirit, and dashing virtuosity" - Musical
America. In 1986 he became the first trumpeter to be awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in the
history of the Juilliard School, and has been the recipient of awards and honors from the U.S. Department
of State, Fulbright Foundation, New York City Fire Department, City Council of New York, and The
National Endowment for the Arts. He has recorded over 40 internationally distributed albums - early
music, chamber music, band, and orchestral idioms - and has performed recital /lectures for The
International Trumpet Guild Conference, The New York Brass Conference, Historical Brass Society, Bad
Saeckingen Trumpet Museum, and Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was Co-Founder and
Executive Director of Orvieto Musica, a chamber music festival in central Italy.
DON JOHNSON, E Flat Cornet (Raywick, KY)
Don Johnson has played with and toured in Europe with the Advocate Brass Band of Danville, Kentucky.
He has played solo Eb cornet with Saxton's Cornet Band of Lexington, KY, including performing at the
2000 Presidential Inauguration and touring with them in Taiwan. Don also plays solo Bb cornet with the
Derby City Brass Band of Louisville, KY, who have performed with nationally renowned guest soloists
such as Phil Smith from the New York Philharmonic. Don was the winner of the National Trumpet
Competition Pro Am Division in 2004 and 2005 and was awarded a presentation gold-plated trumpet
from Schilke Music Products.
MICHAEL O'CONNOR, B Flat Tenor, B Flat Baritone (Gettysburg, PA)
Mike is currently serving as an adjunct professor in Musicology at the University of Maryland, where he
teaches music history and directs the Collegium musicum. He holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology
from Florida State University, where he also earned a masters degree in Euphonium Performance. He
received a B. S. in Music Education from Tennessee Tech University in 1985 where he served as
principal euphonium for the TTU Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. His teachers include R. Winston Morris,
Daniel Perantoni, and Paul Ebbers. From 1986-1992, Mike was the euphoniumist for the Clyde Beatty-
Cole Bros. Circus Band. He has been an active performer on historic brass instruments in the Mid-
Atlantic region since 1997, and was a founding member of the Washington Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble
and Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band. As a researcher, Mike has published in the Alamire Yearbook,
Medieval Perspectives, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition. This year
his chapter on the history of the euphonium and baritone horn was published in Guide to the Euphonium
Repertoire by Indiana University Press.
ERIC PFEIFFER, E Flat Alto (Port Republic, MD)
Eric was born and raised in the Washington, DC area, and was first introduced to military band music by
his father, a 20 year veteran of The U. S. Marine Band (“The President’s Own”), who performed under John
Philip Sousa in his last public appearance conducting that band. Eric began his own musical studies in
elementary school, starting on trumpet and later switching to French horn. He performed in various
regional and state honor bands and festivals in Virginia throughout high school and studied French horn
with Thomas Murray. One of his favorite musical memories is of performing and recording Sousa’s music
under the direction of Dr. Frank Simon, assistant leader of the Sousa Band. Since 1994, Eric has been a
trumpet player in the Calvert Dance Band, and also served as its president for 8 years. He plays French
horn in the Calvert Brass Consortium, and plays both trumpet and French horn for services and special
occasions at his church. Eric retired in 2006 after more than 33 years with the US Postal Service. He
retired in 1995 from the U. S. Naval Reserve, serving over 26 years including two years of active duty
during the Vietnam era. Eric lives with his wife and daughter in an improved 1953 log cabin on the
Chesapeake Bay which was formerly a childhood summer home.
JEFFREY V. ROGERS, E Flat Alto, B Flat Tenor, B Flat Baritone (Pasadena, MD)
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance, French Horn, from The Catholic University of America. He
is a former student of Donald Crowe, James Gollmer, Peter Landgren, Robert Pierce, and Edwin C.
Thayer. He has performed at DAR Constitution Hall, the Kennedy Center, and under the direction of
Robert Jager, Robert Gerle, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Mstislav Rostropovich. While attending CUA, Jeff
performed as a soloist with the orchestra, was an E Flat Alto hornist with the Heritage Americana Band
(the Civil War era brass band co-founded by Mark Elrod), and also performed with the orchestra for Pope
John Paul II at the Vatican as part of the university's Centennial Celebration. He attended Brevard Music
Center in North Carolina and has participated in several International Horn Society workshops in
addition to performing with various musical ensembles in and around the Washington, DC area.
WILLIAM ROSE, SR., B Flat Tenor (Port Republic, MD)
KYLE RUSSELL, B Flat Tenor (Leonardtown, MD)
DANA SCHOPPERT, B Flat Baritone (Falling Waters, WV)
JIM SMITH, Percussion (Pittsburgh, PA)
As founder, instructor and director of notable fife and drum corps in up-state New York (C.A. Palmer),
Indiana (Tippecanoe Ancients), Yokosuka (Ancient Mariners of Japan) and Pennsylvania (Commonwealth
Ancients), Jim Smith brings a lifetime of sheepskin fiddling to The Federal City Brass Band. In high
school, Jim was encouraged by Dr. Frederick Fennell to study with William Street and John Beck at the
Eastman School, played in the NYS All-State Band and Eastman - Rochester Youth Symphony, and
competed in the 1961 VFW National Junior Rudimental Individuals at Miami, Florida. At Purdue
University he was freshman drum captain of the marching band and featured rudimental soloist with the
Symphonic Band, and for three years taught an average of 30 students at a music store plus drum-lines
at two local schools, while playing with union pick-up bands on weekends. On active duty in the Navy,
Jim served as Bandmaster of the OCS Regimental Band at Newport before reporting for engineering duty
on the USS Rowan in Vietnam. In the last 40 years he has played with community bands, symphony
orchestras, bagpipe bands and fife and drum corps from California to Connecticut, and served as a
rudimental clinician. Jim is passionate about the sound of un-muffled skin heads with loose gut snares,
and restores/conserves antique drums for museums and private collectors, when not on engineering
assignments with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
JEFF STOCKHAM, E Flat Cornet (Syracuse, NY)
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance, French Horn, from Syracuse University and a Master of
Music, Performance, French Horn, and the Performer's Certificate, from the Eastman School of Music. He
is currently Instructor of Jazz Trumpet at Hamilton College and Colgate University, and was formerly
Assistant Professor of French Horn at the State University of NY at Geneseo. In demand as a freelance and
studio musician on trumpet, French horn, and valve trombone in the upstate New York area, Jeff has
backed up numerous national acts. He has toured Europe, Israel, and the United States as trumpeter and
French hornist with T. S. Monk's "Monk on Monk" big band, with which he has performed alongside many
jazz luminaries. He has toured Europe and Africa with noted Chicago blues artist Jimmy Johnson, and
has been a member of the orchestra for the national tour of "Les Miserables". In addition to his freelance
work he is currently solo trumpet with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, and leads his own jazz
sextet, the Jazz Police. He is also one of the few musicians worldwide to perform as a jazz soloist on the
French horn. Jeff is the leader and solo Eb cornetist of the Excelsior Cornet Band, New York State's
authentic Civil War brass band, which he founded in 2001.
HEATHER FAUST (Mrs. Jari Villanueva), Band Manager, Vocalist (Catonsville, MD)
Heather received her B.A. summa cum laude in flute and vocal performance and theatre arts from
California State University, Hayward in 1993. She has worked on and off as a performer, teacher, and
music director ever since, while acquiring top-notch administrative skills from a wealth of experience in
non-musical jobs in the non-profit and education arenas. Heather sang for two seasons with the
Baltimore Choral Arts Society Chorus and Chamber Chorus under the direction of Tom Hall and four
seasons with the Master Chorale of Washington conducted by Donald McCullough. A civilian Civil War
re-enactor since 1987, she is a member of Co. D, 3rd US Regular Infantry Re-enactors, and recently
completed five terms as Civilian Coordinator of that unit, as well as two years on its Board of Directors.
She is also a member of the Atlantic Guard Soldiers Aid Society civilian organization. She enjoys
learning and practicing 19th-century sewing and needlecraft techniques and is proud to be responsible
for creating the reproduction uniforms worn by the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band. Heather has a
life-long love of Civil War brass band music, and is tremendously pleased to be "band Mom" to her very
own Civil War band.
Jari is a musician and historian. He has sounded Taps at Arlington National Cemetery at least 1,700
times over twenty-two years as a military bandsman. A graduate of The Peabody Conservatory of The
Johns Hopkins University and Kent State University, he was the curator of the Taps Exhibit at Arlington
and is the author of Twenty Four Notes That Tap Deep Emotions, the history of the bugle call Taps. He has
arranged volumes of Civil War music for brass quintet, and published articles on the history of bugle calls
and brass bands of the Civil War. Jari is an active Civil War re-enactor, sounding bugle calls for Co. D, 3rd
U. S. Infantry and as Chief Bugler for Vincent's Brigade. He has served as over-all Federal Principal
Musician for major events such as the 140th Manassas re-enactment and the 140th Antietam re-
enactment and as head of music faculty for the Don Hubbard Field Music School (formerly the Eastern
Field Music School), held annually at Ft. Delaware. Jari is also on the music faculty at the University of
Maryland, Baltimore County, where he directs the Concert Band, Pep Band, and Jazz Ensemble.
RICHARD BERGREN, E Flat Alto, B Flat Tenor (Upper Marlboro, MD)
A graduate of Michigan State University's School of Music, Dick pursued a career as a Naval Flight Officer.
While Director of the Naval Air Training Command Choir, he earned his Master's Degree in Public
Administration from Troy State University. He performed as Principal Trumpet with the Guam Symphony
Orchestra and as Bugler with the U.S. Army's Ceremonial Mounted Unit, B Troop in Fort Huachuca,
Arizona. A member of Patuxent Martial Music, he performed with them as the 1814 Fort McHenry Guard
Band and as an 1850's era brass band in the movie Washington Square. Dick has been a Confederate re-
enactment bugler since 1983, as a member of the 2nd Maryland Infantry, Company A and the 1st North
Carolina Cavalry, Company D. In 1986 he recorded the sound track of bugle calls for the BBC production
of The Divided Union. He also appeared on screen in that series and in a National Park Service film on
the Battle of the Wilderness. He was Chief Confederate Bugler at the 125th anniversary reenactment of
the Battle of Gettysburg. As Bugler and Past Commander of the Private Wallace Bowling Camp 1400, Sons
of Confederate Veterans, Dick has performed on the bugle, cornet and baritone horn in numerous
historical pageants and ceremonies. Besides his interest in brass instruments, he sings tenor with the
Southern Maryland Sound Chorus and with Drum Point Light, a barbershop quartet.
JOHN F. BIENIARZ, E Flat Bass (New Hampton, NH; Alexandria, VA)
John is a retired Laconia (NH) police officer, Civil War historian and musical instrument collector. He is a
graduate of the Butera School of Arts, Boston, Mass., with diplomas in Commercial and Fine Arts. John is
a self-taught musician and says he operates on passion. He founded the 12th New Hampshire Regiment
Serenade Band, New Hampton, NH and also has played Saxhorn with the Centennial Brass Band in
Portland, Maine. He has been a Tubist with the Lakes Region Symphony and was a founding member of
the Carter Mountain Brass Band. John still frequently travels to New Hampshire with his wife, Rebecca, to
perform with the 12th New Hampshire Regiment Serenade Band.
REBECCA D. BOSTRON, E Flat Alto (Sykesville, MD)
Rebecca graduated from the University of Delaware as a Music Education major and a Church Music
minor in January 2005. Last year she completed her internship at Newark United Methodist Church
where she assisted with the youth and adult ringing and singing choirs. Rebecca performed as a member
of nearly every university ensemble from the marching band, to chamber groups, to orchestras. After
being bitten by the 'early music bug' her first year at UD, she played in many early music ensembles there
and became a founding member of Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band. Rebecca teaches elementary
music in the Fairfax County Public School System (VA) and is a member of the Virginia Bronze.
GARMAN L. BOWERS JR., Percussion (Fairplay, MD)
Garman received a Music Education Degree from Shepherd College, WV and has a Master's Equivalence
in Music Education. A drummer since 1964, he was the Timpanist for the Maryland Theater Orchestra
from 1970-1980. He is the Principal Percussionist for the Williamsport Community Band, Washington
Co., MD. Nominated and accepted in the Seventh Edition of Who's Who Among America's Teachers 2002,
he recently retired as Music Department Head and Instrumental Music Educator at Springfield Middle
School in Williamsport, MD.
GARMAN L. BOWERS III, Percussion, Utility (Fairplay, MD)
G. BRIAN CARDELL, E Flat Bass, B Flat Baritone (Baltimore, MD)
LEE CARON, Percussion (Arlington, VA)
Lee Caron is known as a rudimental snare drum specialist. Besides being a percussion section member
of The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, 3rd US Infantry (Escort to the President), Washington D.C., he is
also a free lance percussionist. Lee is an avid educator of the New England style of rudimental
drumming, including private teaching, drum line instruction, and presenting master classes/clinics at
schools and summer programs. He has taken first place in many rudimental snare drum competitions in
Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Lee studied at The Hartt School with Benjamin
Toth and at The Boston Conservatory with Patrick Hollenbeck and Nancy Zeltsman. He can also be seen
performing with the award winning Connecticut Patriots Fife and Drum Corps. Lee is endorsed by
Cooperman drums and Silver Fox sticks.
PAUL DELUCA, B Flat Cornet, E Flat Cornet (Belcamp, MD)
Paul grew up in the Buffalo, NY region, studying with Geoff Richter (Graduate of Eastman School of Music,
Director of Bands at Williamsville North HS) and Charles Gleaves (Buffalo Philharmonic). He is a 1982
graduate of Syracuse University with a B.S. in Computer Engineering, performing with the SU Wind
Ensemble, Concert and Marching Bands during that time. Paul has freelanced in the Baltimore area
since 1985, holding regular positions with many local community groups including the Baltimore
Symphonic Band, the Hopkins Symphony, the Bel Air Community Band, the Maryland Early Brass
Consort, and the Greenspring Valley Orchestra. Always interested in authentic music performances, he
has recently ventured into the Civil War era, playing with the Federal City Brass Band since 2004, and
the Newberry Victorian Cornet Band since 2003.
THEODORE E. DIETZ, Percussion (Pasadena, MD)
Ted is a U.S. Air Force Vietnam Veteran and former member of the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps.
He has performed with many fife and drum corps, bagpipe bands, and as a percussionist and mallet player
with orchestras and ensembles in various venues including the Kennedy Center. He has performed
under the direction of Leon Fleischer, Saul Lillienstein and Ronald Gretz, and studied with Edna Backlor.
He also performs with the Annapolis Opera Company as a tenor in the opera chorus. Ted has served as
Principal Musician for Union forces at the Battle of South Mountain reenactment and Landis Valley
living history encampments, and as solo drummer at Mifflin Guard drill competitions. He was formerly
Principal Musician for Co. B of the 28th Massachusetts, the Irish Volunteers.
REBECCA L. DOUCETTE, E Flat Cornet (New Hampton, NH; Alexandria, VA)
Rebecca holds a B. A. with Honors in Music from Williams College and attended Mannes College of
Music, New York City. She studies trumpet with Charlie Lewis of the Empire Brass and Dr. Robert Birch,
former U.S. Navy Band cornet soloist, Washington, D.C. In 2004, after serving as first trumpet with the
39th Army National Guard Band, Manchester, NH, she transferred to the 257th Army Band, "Band of the
Nation's Capital," Washington, DC as Principal Trumpet and Readiness NCO. In April 2006 she
transferred to the National Guard Bureau, Arlington, VA as a Public Affairs Videographer, graduating as
Distinguished Honor Graduate from the Defense Information School, Ft. Meade, MD in August, 2006.
Rebecca has taught trumpet and coached brass ensembles at the Concord Community Music School and
St. Paul's School, both in Concord, NH. She has performed with the Centennial Brass Band, Portland,
Maine and Boston's Commonwealth Brass, and is a former member of the Berkshire Symphony Orchestra
and former Principal Trumpet of the New Hampshire Philharmonic. Rebecca still travels up to NH to
perform as principal musician/E-flat cornet with the 12th New Hampshire Regiment Serenade Band.
MARK A. ELROD, E Flat Bass (Germantown, MD)
Mark is an internationally known musicologist, historian and collector of antique brass instruments. He
retired from the U. S. Army in 1998 with over twenty-eight years of combined service with the U.S. Army
and Marine Corps, including service as a combat artilleryman and helicopter door gunner in Vietnam, as
a musician (bugler) with the Army's principal ceremonial unit, the 1st Battalion, 3rd Infantry ("The Old
Guard") at Fort Myer, VA, and as a musician with the prestigious United States Marine Band ("The
President's Own"). He holds a B. S. degree in Industrial Arts from Salem College in Salem, WV. Mark is the
author of A Pictorial History of Civil War Era Musical Instruments and Military Bands, the definitive
reference work on American Civil War era band instruments, bands and music. While attending the
Catholic University School of Music, he co-founded the Heritage Americana Band, a performance
ensemble dedicated to the performance of Civil War era wind band music on original period instruments.
Although officially retired from the military, Mark never seems to tire of putting on his old uniform as
evidenced by his part time on call contract job as a uniformed bugler at funerals for American service
veterans with the Maryland National Guard Honor Guard.
JEB HAGUE, B Flat Cornet, E Flat Cornet (Lansdale, PA)
Jeb is a 2005 graduate in Music Education from The Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State,
he played in the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Centre Dimensions Jazz Ensemble, the Penn State Blue
Band, and various chamber ensembles. Outside of college, Jeb has been a re-enactor for over 18 years,
playing fife, drum, and bugle. He has performed with the Camp Chase Fifes and Drums, the Maryland Line
Field Music, the Regimental Fifes and Drums of Fort Delaware, and the 28th Pennsylvania Regimental
Brass Band. He can also be seen playing fife, drum and Bb cornet in the movie Gods and Generals. Jeb is
a fife instructor at the Don Hubbard Field Music School and a member of the 71st Pennsylvania
Volunteer Infantry, the "California Regiment."
DOUGLAS HEDWIG, B Flat Cornet (Patterson, NY)
Douglas Hedwig is presently Professor of Trumpet and Director of Brass Instrument Studies at Brooklyn
College of The City University of New York. He previously served on the Music History Faculty of The
Juilliard School. For 27 years he served as Trumpeter with The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in New
York City. As a member of the Metropolitan Brass Quartet he recorded three albums, and toured
internationally to critical acclaim: "A model of infectious spirit, and dashing virtuosity" - Musical
America. In 1986 he became the first trumpeter to be awarded the Doctor of Musical Arts Degree in the
history of the Juilliard School, and has been the recipient of awards and honors from the U.S. Department
of State, Fulbright Foundation, New York City Fire Department, City Council of New York, and The
National Endowment for the Arts. He has recorded over 40 internationally distributed albums - early
music, chamber music, band, and orchestral idioms - and has performed recital /lectures for The
International Trumpet Guild Conference, The New York Brass Conference, Historical Brass Society, Bad
Saeckingen Trumpet Museum, and Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe, Germany. He was Co-Founder and
Executive Director of Orvieto Musica, a chamber music festival in central Italy.
DON JOHNSON, E Flat Cornet (Raywick, KY)
Don Johnson has played with and toured in Europe with the Advocate Brass Band of Danville, Kentucky.
He has played solo Eb cornet with Saxton's Cornet Band of Lexington, KY, including performing at the
2000 Presidential Inauguration and touring with them in Taiwan. Don also plays solo Bb cornet with the
Derby City Brass Band of Louisville, KY, who have performed with nationally renowned guest soloists
such as Phil Smith from the New York Philharmonic. Don was the winner of the National Trumpet
Competition Pro Am Division in 2004 and 2005 and was awarded a presentation gold-plated trumpet
from Schilke Music Products.
MICHAEL O'CONNOR, B Flat Tenor, B Flat Baritone (Gettysburg, PA)
Mike is currently serving as an adjunct professor in Musicology at the University of Maryland, where he
teaches music history and directs the Collegium musicum. He holds a Ph.D. in Historical Musicology
from Florida State University, where he also earned a masters degree in Euphonium Performance. He
received a B. S. in Music Education from Tennessee Tech University in 1985 where he served as
principal euphonium for the TTU Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble. His teachers include R. Winston Morris,
Daniel Perantoni, and Paul Ebbers. From 1986-1992, Mike was the euphoniumist for the Clyde Beatty-
Cole Bros. Circus Band. He has been an active performer on historic brass instruments in the Mid-
Atlantic region since 1997, and was a founding member of the Washington Cornett & Sackbutt Ensemble
and Newberry's Victorian Cornet Band. As a researcher, Mike has published in the Alamire Yearbook,
Medieval Perspectives, and The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Second Edition. This year
his chapter on the history of the euphonium and baritone horn was published in Guide to the Euphonium
Repertoire by Indiana University Press.
ERIC PFEIFFER, E Flat Alto (Port Republic, MD)
Eric was born and raised in the Washington, DC area, and was first introduced to military band music by
his father, a 20 year veteran of The U. S. Marine Band (“The President’s Own”), who performed under John
Philip Sousa in his last public appearance conducting that band. Eric began his own musical studies in
elementary school, starting on trumpet and later switching to French horn. He performed in various
regional and state honor bands and festivals in Virginia throughout high school and studied French horn
with Thomas Murray. One of his favorite musical memories is of performing and recording Sousa’s music
under the direction of Dr. Frank Simon, assistant leader of the Sousa Band. Since 1994, Eric has been a
trumpet player in the Calvert Dance Band, and also served as its president for 8 years. He plays French
horn in the Calvert Brass Consortium, and plays both trumpet and French horn for services and special
occasions at his church. Eric retired in 2006 after more than 33 years with the US Postal Service. He
retired in 1995 from the U. S. Naval Reserve, serving over 26 years including two years of active duty
during the Vietnam era. Eric lives with his wife and daughter in an improved 1953 log cabin on the
Chesapeake Bay which was formerly a childhood summer home.
JEFFREY V. ROGERS, E Flat Alto, B Flat Tenor, B Flat Baritone (Pasadena, MD)
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance, French Horn, from The Catholic University of America. He
is a former student of Donald Crowe, James Gollmer, Peter Landgren, Robert Pierce, and Edwin C.
Thayer. He has performed at DAR Constitution Hall, the Kennedy Center, and under the direction of
Robert Jager, Robert Gerle, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Mstislav Rostropovich. While attending CUA, Jeff
performed as a soloist with the orchestra, was an E Flat Alto hornist with the Heritage Americana Band
(the Civil War era brass band co-founded by Mark Elrod), and also performed with the orchestra for Pope
John Paul II at the Vatican as part of the university's Centennial Celebration. He attended Brevard Music
Center in North Carolina and has participated in several International Horn Society workshops in
addition to performing with various musical ensembles in and around the Washington, DC area.
WILLIAM ROSE, SR., B Flat Tenor (Port Republic, MD)
KYLE RUSSELL, B Flat Tenor (Leonardtown, MD)
DANA SCHOPPERT, B Flat Baritone (Falling Waters, WV)
JIM SMITH, Percussion (Pittsburgh, PA)
As founder, instructor and director of notable fife and drum corps in up-state New York (C.A. Palmer),
Indiana (Tippecanoe Ancients), Yokosuka (Ancient Mariners of Japan) and Pennsylvania (Commonwealth
Ancients), Jim Smith brings a lifetime of sheepskin fiddling to The Federal City Brass Band. In high
school, Jim was encouraged by Dr. Frederick Fennell to study with William Street and John Beck at the
Eastman School, played in the NYS All-State Band and Eastman - Rochester Youth Symphony, and
competed in the 1961 VFW National Junior Rudimental Individuals at Miami, Florida. At Purdue
University he was freshman drum captain of the marching band and featured rudimental soloist with the
Symphonic Band, and for three years taught an average of 30 students at a music store plus drum-lines
at two local schools, while playing with union pick-up bands on weekends. On active duty in the Navy,
Jim served as Bandmaster of the OCS Regimental Band at Newport before reporting for engineering duty
on the USS Rowan in Vietnam. In the last 40 years he has played with community bands, symphony
orchestras, bagpipe bands and fife and drum corps from California to Connecticut, and served as a
rudimental clinician. Jim is passionate about the sound of un-muffled skin heads with loose gut snares,
and restores/conserves antique drums for museums and private collectors, when not on engineering
assignments with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
JEFF STOCKHAM, E Flat Cornet (Syracuse, NY)
Jeff holds a Bachelor of Music in Performance, French Horn, from Syracuse University and a Master of
Music, Performance, French Horn, and the Performer's Certificate, from the Eastman School of Music. He
is currently Instructor of Jazz Trumpet at Hamilton College and Colgate University, and was formerly
Assistant Professor of French Horn at the State University of NY at Geneseo. In demand as a freelance and
studio musician on trumpet, French horn, and valve trombone in the upstate New York area, Jeff has
backed up numerous national acts. He has toured Europe, Israel, and the United States as trumpeter and
French hornist with T. S. Monk's "Monk on Monk" big band, with which he has performed alongside many
jazz luminaries. He has toured Europe and Africa with noted Chicago blues artist Jimmy Johnson, and
has been a member of the orchestra for the national tour of "Les Miserables". In addition to his freelance
work he is currently solo trumpet with the Central New York Jazz Orchestra, and leads his own jazz
sextet, the Jazz Police. He is also one of the few musicians worldwide to perform as a jazz soloist on the
French horn. Jeff is the leader and solo Eb cornetist of the Excelsior Cornet Band, New York State's
authentic Civil War brass band, which he founded in 2001.
HEATHER FAUST (Mrs. Jari Villanueva), Band Manager, Vocalist (Catonsville, MD)
Heather received her B.A. summa cum laude in flute and vocal performance and theatre arts from
California State University, Hayward in 1993. She has worked on and off as a performer, teacher, and
music director ever since, while acquiring top-notch administrative skills from a wealth of experience in
non-musical jobs in the non-profit and education arenas. Heather sang for two seasons with the
Baltimore Choral Arts Society Chorus and Chamber Chorus under the direction of Tom Hall and four
seasons with the Master Chorale of Washington conducted by Donald McCullough. A civilian Civil War
re-enactor since 1987, she is a member of Co. D, 3rd US Regular Infantry Re-enactors, and recently
completed five terms as Civilian Coordinator of that unit, as well as two years on its Board of Directors.
She is also a member of the Atlantic Guard Soldiers Aid Society civilian organization. She enjoys
learning and practicing 19th-century sewing and needlecraft techniques and is proud to be responsible
for creating the reproduction uniforms worn by the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band. Heather has a
life-long love of Civil War brass band music, and is tremendously pleased to be "band Mom" to her very
own Civil War band.
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