PLU Invitational Band Festival

Joseph P. Scott currently teaches at Pierce College in Puyallup, WA where he serves as Assistant Professor of Instrumental Music. In this position, Joseph conducts the Pierce College Concert Band and Orchestra and teaches courses in music theory. Prior to this appointment, Joseph taught at Saint Martin’s University in Lacey, WA where he directed the Wind Ensemble and taught courses in music education and music theory. While in his first year on faculty at SMU, Joseph was nominated for Faculty of the Year (2022-2023) for “excellence in teaching, high standards and rigor in the classroom, high expectations for student performance, and high level of empathy and concern for student growth and development.” Joseph served as conductor of the College of the Holy Cross Wind Ensemble & Orchestra and assistant conductor of the University of Maryland’s Wind Orchestra and Wind Ensemble. Joseph served as music director and conductor of the Maryland Community Band based in College Park, MD.

In addition to leading ensembles, Joseph’s teaching experience includes undergraduate-level conducting classes and guest lectures in music education and ensemble leadership. Joseph was recently a guest conductor with the University of Maryland Repertoire Orchestra and frequently serves as a guest conductor and adjudicator in Washington, California, Maryland and internationally for solo and large ensemble festivals, as well as honor bands. Before starting at the University of Maryland, Joseph was the Director of Instrumental Music at Clayton Valley Charter High School in Concord, California, where he was responsible for conducting the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Orchestra, Jazz Band, and Marching Band, as well as instructing Advanced Placement Music Theory. Joseph also taught at Mount St. Mary’s University where he directed the Pep Band and was a guest conductor of the wind ensemble.

To learn more about Joseph, please visit www.josephpscott.com

Dr. Kaitlin Bove serves as Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, California where she directs the Symphonic Band and Viking Ensemble in addition to instructing coursework in American multicultural music. She is artistic director and conductor of the BDWinds, the youth wind ensemble branch of the Blue Devils Performing Arts organization, and the Oakland Municipal Band which offers summer concerts in Oakland’s Lake Merritt Park. Prior to these appointments, she was the Director of Instrumental Music at Pierce College in Puyallup, Washington where she was awarded “Outstanding Faculty of the Year” in 2020. Kaitlin holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting from University of Kentucky where she was a student of Cody Birdwell, a teaching assistant, and premiered her wind transcription of Caroline Shaw’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Partita for 8 Voices in 2019.

Dr. Bove is from Lafayette, California and earned her Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Education from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California where she studied with Eric Hammer. Prior to her doctoral work, she taught instrumental music at the secondary level in Payson, Utah. In this setting, she instructed courses in band, orchestra, marching band, jazz ensemble, AP music theory, guitar, folk music, musical theater, and mariachi.

To learn more about Kaitlin, please visit kaitlinbove.com/about