Director:  Donald C. Allen (dallen@cppmail.com) Assisstent Director: Joseph Stork (jstork@cppmail.com)

A message from Mr. Allen,
Hello everyone, we are more than excited to announce 2019 show, schedule and staff for the 2019 CPP Performance Band.  Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions.  We are currently updating our Charms System so be on the lookout an email soon!

2019 Performance Band Schedule
7/15 – Begins summer Majorette rehearsals, Mondays and Wednesdays 6-8 (Dennison Park)
7/22 – Begin summer Dance Machine rehearsals, Mondays and Wednesday 5:30-7:30 (Middle School)
8/7 – Begin Drumline rehearsals, Wednesdays 6-8:30 (CPPHS)
8/19 – Info Night, 6pm (CPPHS)
8/21 – Park Ave Performance Band “Kick Off”, 5pm. $25 per student (Park Ave Sports Center)
8/22 – Section Leaders, 9am-3pm (CPPHS)
8/23 – Freshman Orientation, 12pm-3pm (CPPHS)
8/26-30 Band Camp 9am-8:30pm (Erwin Valley)
8/29 – Parent Performance 6-8pm (Erwin Valley)
8/30 – Performance Band Picnic, 3pm (Middle School)
9/6 – Home Football Game (Vestal)
9/10 – Begin fall Majorette rehearsals, Tuesday and Thursdays 6-8 (CPPHS)
9/13 – Home Football Game vs Ithaca
9/21 – Crystal City Competition (CPPHS)
10/4 – Home Football Game vs Horseheads
10/18 – Home Football Game Liverpool
10/19 – Bandtoberfest (CPPHS)
10/29 – Fall Festival of Bands, 7pm (CPPHS)
2019 Show
Totally Hawksome 80’s Mix Tape
Queen Medley – Freddie Mercury, Arr. D. Allen and J. Stork
Africa – Toto, Arr. R. Ford
Carry on Your Wayward Son- Kansas, Arr. Michael Sweeny


 
2019 Principal Teaching/Design Staff
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Mr. Donald Allen – Director
Donny Allen has been involved in music education for over four decades. A band director at Corning Painted Post School District, Mr. Allen has many laurels to his credit (including many New York State Championships, National and World Championships). Mr. Allen presently continues in his own business of music education, arranging, adjudication and consulting, while teaching band high school full time. He has a Bachelor of Arts in Music from Empire State College and is a certified K-12 music teacher in New York State. Donny also has a Masters of Music Education from University of New York at Buffalo.
Donny's involvement in music education also includes arranging music and consulting for marching bands in New York State. Many of these bands have been consistent champions in their class. This includes award winning high school bands from East Irondequoit High School, Jordan Elbridge High School, Copiague High School, Hicksville High School, Garden City High School, Pioneer High School, Corning-Painted Post High School and many more nationally. He is an active adjudicator and clinician for the New York State Field Band Conference, Youth Education in the Arts, US Bands, and the Cavalcade of Bands. Mr. Allen also plays trumpet professionally with many bands in different genres in upstate New York. Mr. Allen is also the former Assistant Director for athletic bands at the University of New York at Buffalo.
Mr. Allen has achieved first place gold medals in every division in Drum Corps Associates, from the individual level in trumpet performance to the World Class. Included in his drum corps experiences are music director and brass arranger with the Rochester Crusaders, Empire Statesmen and Syracuse Brigadiers during the years 1990-1997. Those corps were “Open Class” World Champions.
Donald Allen is an active member of the prestigious World Drum Corps Hall of Fame since 1995 and the President of the Bugler’s Hall of Fame.
 
Mr. Joseph Stork – Assistant Director
Mr. Stork is a full time band director and instrumental music teacher at CPP where he directs the Competition Band, Symphonic Band and Indoor Drumline as well as co-directs the Hawks Marching Band.  Mr. Stork has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Education from Roberts Wesleyan College as well as a Masters of Music Education Degree from the University at Buffalo. 
Mr. Stork has 8 years of drum corps marching experience, aging out of the Madison Scouts in 2012.  Additionally, Mr. Stork has been on the staff with several state champion marching band programs, world finalist indoor percussion ensembles and is currently the Staff and Ensemble Coordinator at the White Sabers Drum and Bugle Corps.
This is Mr. Stork’s second year as assistant director of the CPP Performance Band.

Mrs. Judi Gridley – Majorettes Adviser
Judi Gridley has been the Majorettes adviser for CPP starting with Corning West.  She has been the adviser of the CPP majorettes for around three decades and has made the Majorette program and twirling in Corning a culture of success and a source of pride for the community, bringing home numerous local, regional and state championships in twirling.

Mr. Rick Morey – Drill Design
Rick has been teaching and writing in New York State for decades.  He has numerous state titles to his marching band resume including New Hartford, Jamestown and Corning-Painted Post, just to name a few.  Rick is a member of the New York State Field Band Conference Hall of Fame.
Rick has been designer for numerous world class drum and bugle corps and has won several World Championships, including with the Syracuse Brigadiers.  Rick is currently a visual judge for many marching art circuits, including Drum Corps Associates.

Mr. Trevor Prutsman – Drumline Caption Head
Trevor is currently a sophomore at Corning Community College where he studies Music.  Trevor is a CPP alumni, where he captained the CPP Hawks Marching Band Drumline and served as CPP Band Club president.
Trevor is also on staff with the CPP Competition Band Drumline.

Mrs. Kira Farley – Dance Machine Adviser
Kira was born into this activity due to her parents’ involvement with drum corps. When she was old enough to stand, she had a flag in her hands. She marched drum corps from 1992-2004 with Spectrum Drum Corps, The Bluecoats Drum Corps, and The Brigadiers Drum Corps. She marched Campbell-Savona’s 1996 WGI A Class Finalist Royal Blue Winter Guard from 1993-1998.
Kira was a Guard tech at Skyliners Drum Corps in 2018 and the 2019 summer as a tech at White Sabers. She has had the distinct honor of directing the color guard program at Corning-Painted Post HS Competition Band and the Winter Guard since 2015.

Ms. Amanda Flick – Dance Machine Instructor
Amanda attends Corning Community College as a Nursing major. She is an alumni to Corning-Painted Post High School and participated in Dance Machine for four years. She remains active in a variety of dance classes at 171 Cedar Arts where she has danced for 11 years. She is looking forward to supporting the CPP band program for the 2019-20 season.

Mrs. Heather Haskins – Dance Choreographer
Heather began dancing at the age of seven at Filippetti's Acadamy of Dance in Horseheads, NY. Throughout her teens, Heather choreographed solos and group numbers, as well as performed in stage productions at Horseheads High school - earning her the Elmira Little Theatre Outstanding Performer Award in 2002.  
In 2004, Heather began teaching, under Amy Bush, at Dancer’s Alley in both Horseheads and Corning. In 2006, she graduated from Elmira College with a Bachelors of Arts degree in Musical Theatre. During her time at Elmira College, Heather helped choreograph and run the student organization, Orchesis Dance Group, which held two shows every year.  
Heather continues to perform onstage in numerous productions in the local area as well as professionally. She also continues to learn more every year by taking classes from several professional dancers, including SYTYCD stars Tyce Diorio and Lauren Gottlieb, Disney Choreographer Nancy O’Mera, and Hip Hop Star Barry Youngblood. Heather has also attended classes at STEPS and Broadways Dance Center in New York City.
In 2010, Heather opened Stage Door Performing Arts Center. Miss Heather is excited to be able to do what she loves every day and share it with all of her students. What could be better than that?!