Welcome to the 2022
Harvest Marching Band Festival

Drum Major

Anna Quenemoen

Anna has spent the last several years finishing her schooling in special education and began her career in education recently for the Mount Vernon School District as a Resource Room teacher (2020-21). Currently, Anna works for the US Forest Service as a wildland firefighter. This will be Anna's third time judging drum majors at the HMBF and she is excited to return!

General Effect Music

Steve Robertson

Steve is an active music arranger and has written works for marching bands, drum corps, jazz bands and middle school band music.  He currently plays trumpet in two local Portland jazz bands as well as a full symphonic orchestra.  He is also a member of the Southwest Washington Wind Symphony.   He has been studying trumpet seriously for the last several years under Dr. Gerald Webster’s guidance.  He is currently working as a school rep for the Music World Stores in Vancouver and Battleground, a company that carries all of the top manufacturer’s music instruments.

Mr. Robertson would like to thank the band parents for all of their help in supporting music education.  Music helps to make all of us more compassionate and well rounded citizens.  I would like to wish each competing band today the best performance possible and hope that my comments will be helpful to your group.

General Effect Visual

Max Logan

His recent clients include such groups as; Mountainside HS, Sherwood HS, Rex Putnam HS, and others. He also has served on the instructional teams of several independent ensembles such as; Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, Seattle Cascades Drum and Bugle Corps, and Oregon Crusaders Indoor. Currently he serves as the visual caption head for IMPACT Percussion, based out of Kennewick, WA.

He was the director of the Sherwood Winter Winds ensemble for the four years of its existence, and served on the NWAPA board as Winds-VP for two terms.

Maximilian’s humble performance experience lasted from 2008-2012 with the Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps.

Guard

Darren Tanner

He has been an instructor, choreographer, and clinician for numerous marching band and winterguard programs in the Pacific Northwest and has been an active adjudicator for 20 years.

Darren currently resides in Seattle, Washington and works as a research scientist at Microsoft.

Music Ensemble

Pat Vandehey

Mr. Vandehey is a Past-President of the Oregon Band Directors Association and serves as Committee Chair of the Adjudication Training Board of OBDA. He served for two years as the Band Liaison to the Oregon Schools Activity Association. He has served twice on the Oregon Music Education Association’s Board as Band Chair served on the OMEA Executive board as President in 2005-2006.

In 1993 Mr. Vandehey was the State, Regional and National recipient of the ASBDA- Stanbury Award for Outstanding Young Band Director. In 2000 he was inducted into the Band World Legion of Honor by the John Philip Sousa Foundation. Also in 2000 he was named one of Oregon’s top ten Music Educators by the Oregon Music Educators Association in the Teaching Music Magazine. In 2002 Mr. Vandehey received the Citation of Excellence from the National Band Association. He is a founding member of the Oregon Chapter of Phi Beta Mu, and in 2006 was inducted into the Northwest Bandmaster’s Association. Mr. Vandehey was named the Oregon’s Outstanding Music Educator in 2010 by OMEA.

Mr. Vandehey began his career at Aloha High School and from 1980 to 1994 built an award-winning program in concert, jazz and marching band. Aloha High School placed in the top three at the Oregon State Band Championships from 1990 to 1994 placing 1st in 1992. He moved to Westview High School when it opened in 1994. Under Mr. Vandehey’s direction all aspects of the band program excelled. The Westview Symphonic Band qualified for the State Band Championships each year of its existence and placed in the top three in the last six years of Mr. Vandehey’s tenure there, winning in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

The Band program at George Fox University grew significantly under Mr. Vandehey’s direction. In 2007 and 2009 George Fox was selected to perform at the MENC Northwest Convention. In 2008 and 2016 the George Fox Symphonic Band was the featured ensemble at the Oregon Music Educators Association conference. In 2010 the Symphonic Band was invited to perform at the Western International Band Clinic in Seattle, Washington.

Mr. Vandehey was the coordinator of Music Education at George Fox. Through the development of a comprehensive Music Education program the number of music education majors has grew from five in 2003 to 30 in 2010. Because of his work with the Music Education Curriculum, Mr. Vandehey was invited to be a presenter at the Society of Music Teacher Education at North Carolina University in 2007.

Mr. Vandehey has been Director of Bands and Coordinator of Instrumental Music Education for the last four years. PSU was a featured performer at the 2019 Northwest Regional Convention of the National Association for Music Education in Portland. PSU Wind Symphony also was a featured performer in the 2020 NAfME Convention in Eugene.

Mr. Vandehey is married to Kristin, his wife of 44 years and has two daughters, both of whom are educators.

Music Individual

Maggie Whiteman

While teaching at Eastmont, Maggie was an active member of the Music Education community. She has given clinics at the Washington Music Educator's conference, the Whistler Cantando festival, judged at the Harvest, Sumner, and Auburn marching band festivals, judged at the Leavenworth Autumn leaf parade, served as the Drum Major technician for both the Columbians and Cascades Drum and Bugle Corps, served as a faculty member for 2018 and 2019 at the CWU Summer Leadership Camp, as well as working with many high school marching bands across Washington.

In addition to teaching and adjudicating, Maggie has had an active performance career. She graduated from Central Washington University in 2017. While at CWU, Maggie performed on the CWU Wind Ensemble's recordings of Alan Hovhaness's music. She was a featured artist and can be heard on all of the chamber music tracks. Maggie was also a featured performer at the 2017 National Association for Music Education's annual in-service conference in Washington, D.C., where she performed for notable administrators and music educators. Maggie was a drum major for the Cascades Drum and Bugle corps and the Central Washington University Marching Band, as well as marching mellophone for the Columbians Drum and Bugle Corps. She is a proud CWU alum who enjoys her free time hiking, skiing, and spending time with her family.

Percussion

Jeff Bush

For over 30 years Jeff has served as a director of percussion for many award winning high school
and independent percussion programs around the Pacific Northwest. He established the Grants Pass HS
Indoor Ensemble starting in 1995 until 2002. Grants Pass HS became the first World Class Percussion
Ensemble in the Pacific Northwest. In 2009 he founded the Oregon Crusaders Indoor Percussion
Ensemble. Oregon Crusaders Indoor earned the 2009 WGI Independent A Class Gold Medal in their first
year of existence. In 2010 OCI was promoted to Independent Open Class and took home the WGI Bronze
Medal from the World Championships.

Jeff is currently the Director of Percussion for the Sherwood, OR School District and Mountainside
HS in the Beaverton, OR School District. The Sherwood Percussion Ensemble is the 3-time NWAPA Open
Class Champion from 2017 to 2019 and 2-time OSAA Concert Percussion Ensemble Champion in 2018 and
2019.

Jeff’s marching experience includes the Marauders and Blue Devils Drum Corps organizations. He has
served as the percussion caption head with the Marauders, River City Railmen, Seattle Cascades and
Oregon Crusaders Drum Corps.

Jeff is the co-founder of the Northwest Indoor Percussion Circuit which is now known as NWAPA.

Jeff is an Innovative Percussion Education Artist and the current Vice President for percussion for the NWAPA.

Visual Performance Ensemble

Mitch DeGrace

Mr. DeGrace is in his 14th year as the director of instrumental and vocal music at Meridian High School just north of Bellingham.

Mr. DeGrace is very pleased to rejoin the judges community at the 2022 Harvest Band Festival!

Visual Performance Individual

Michael Tran

Prior to becoming a band director, Tran spent several years instructing and coordinating numerous high school marching ensembles within Washington State. He also devoted three years writing for, coordinating, and instructing the Central Washington University "Wildcat" Marching Band in Ellensburg, WA. Michael graduated from CWU, earning his degrees in music education and psychology. During his enrollment, he performed in an array of instrumental and vocal ensembles and was extremely involved in the music program, serving as the NAfME Collegiate Senator, a position he held for three years.

Tran’s marching band experience began with sixth grade parade band. After four years at Sultan High School, Michael participated as a lead trumpet player for The Seattle Cascades and The Troopers Drum and Bugle Corps. After serving his final year as a Head Drum Major in DCI, Michael returned to the Seattle Cascades as an administrator. Two years later, he was promoted to Executive and Corps Director.