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Meet the Directors 
 

 

To win this was such a fun surprise!

Thanks to those of you who

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Ward S. Brannman 
Ward S. Brannman has been the Director of Bands at Kamiakin Junior High School since 1986. A Seattle native and current Bothell resident, he is a graduate of the Shoreline School District and a 1985 graduate of the University of Washington with a B.A. in Music Education and a Bachelor of Music Degree. While at the U.W., he studied trumpet and jazz studies with Roy Cummings and conducting under Vilem Sokol. He also holds a Master's of Education Degree with a focus on Integrated Arts Education. Mr. Brannman has taught concert groups, jazz studies, conducting, and brass pedagogy and has served as a clinician and adjudicator for state-wide concert band and solo/ensemble festivals. Mr. Brannman is listed in several editions of "Who's Who Among America's Teachers" and in 1998, was awarded Washington State’s "Christa McCauliffe Excellence In Education Award" at our Capitol Building in Olympia. In 2004, he was awarded the Northlake Region’s “Outstanding Music Educator of the Year” in Yakima and received the Washington PTA’s Golden Acorn Award in 2007. Mr. Brannman also is serving as Washington's Jr. All-State Band Manager and was recently selected as the KING5 "Best of Western Washington" Favorite Teacher. Brannman currently directs five concert bands and the school's Jazz Ensemble. Outside of work, he loves to dabble in photography. His wife plays viola and they have two daughters; a high school senior who is pursuing dance and a college senior at CWU majoring in Music Education who plays the clarinet.
                                                                                    E-mail: wbrannman@lwsd.org

 
Terry Stombaugh
Terry Stombaugh attended the University of Michigan from 1973-1978. There he played trumpet for four years and minored in music and theater. He married and moved to Seattle where he attended the University of Washington 1981-1984, earning an additional degree in Music Education. He played trumpet for the Huskies and earned his first teaching gig on the Olympic Peninsula. In 1984, Mr. Stombaugh returned to Seattle and became Director of Bands at Shorewood High School. After teaching for several years, he returned to the University of Washington for a Masters degree in Music Education and an Advanced Conducting degree. He left Shorewood High School after 10 years of teaching and is now in his 13th year of teaching at Helen Keller Elementary School. He loves his teaching job and still enjoys conducting pit orchestras for local music theater.