CURRENT

Chet Aliga

Year in School: Senior
Major: Music Education
Equipment: Besson Euphonium
Hometown: Wheaton, Illinois
Career Goals: Straight to Master's Degree
Fun Fact #1: Chet is the new drum major for the Hawkeye Marching Band
Fun Fact #2: Surfs every summer

Year in School: Junior
Major: Journalism/Tuba Performance
Equipment: Miraphone 186-4V-CC
Hometown: Ashland, MA
Career Goals: Jam
Fun Fact #1: His truck's name is Sonya
Fun Fact #2: Is obsessed with Clint Eastwood

 Jeremy Crawford

Year in School: Senior
Major: Tuba Performance
Equipment: Kalison Daryl Smith CC tuba, Meinl Weston 45-SLPS F tuba
Hometown: Maquoketa, Iowa
Career Goals: Professor and Orchestral Musician
Fun Fact: Member of the Phantom Regiment Contra Line, 2002-2003

Year in School: 1st year Masters & Graduate Teaching Assistant
Major: Euphonium Performance
Equipment: Willson 2950S
Hometown: Collinsville, IL
Career Goals: University Professor
Fun Fact #1: Has been to Hawaii, Australia, New Zealand, and Fiji
Fun Fact #2: His hometown of Collinsville has the world's largest
ketchup bottle

Year in School: Junior
Major: Music
Equipment: Kalison Daryl Smith CC tuba
Hometown: Dubuque, IA
Career Goals: Do something creative
Fun Fact #1: Is the second youngest of seven children
Fun Fact #2: Has traveled to 21 states and Canada

Year in School: 1st year Masters
Major: Conducting
Equipment: St. Petersburg
Hometown:
Career Goals:
Fun Fact #1:
Fun Fact #2:

Year in School: Junior
Major: Music Education
Equipment: Willson 2900s
Hometown: Bettendorf, IA
Career Goals: High school or college band director/euphonium soloist
Fun Fact #1: Soup is good food
Fun Fact #2: I really like indie rock and my real goal in life would be to start my own band and make a lot of money and never have to go to school again.

Year in school: 1st year Senior
Major: BM - Performance / BA - Cinema
Equipment: Miraphone 191-4V-BBb
Hometown: Katy, Tx / Concord, CA
Career Goals: TV/Film studio work
Fun Fact #1: Over the years has played Piano, Organ, Trombone, Horn,
Drums/Percussion, and sung in choirs.
Fun Fact #2: Currently music director of the Iota Gamma chapter of Phi
Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity.

Andrew Philbrick

Year in School: Sophomore
Major: BM euphonium performance
Equipment: n/a (school horn)
Hometown: Council Bluffs, IA
Career goals: Music; wherever the road takes me.
Fun Fact #1: Proud owner of a 1974 Volkswagon Transporter Van and member of the Buskatiers and Omaha VW Club.
Fun Fact #2: I didn't become a "hippie" until after I got the bus.

Year in School: Senior
Major: Music Education
Equipment: Besson euphonium
Hometown: Homewood, IL
Career Goals: High School Band Director
Fun Fact #1:  Can juggle a soccer ball over 200 times on his head without stopping!
Fun Fact #2:  No one cares about fun fact #1!

Year in School: 2nd year Masters
Major: Music Performance
Equipment: Willson 2900
Hometown: Kenosha, WI
Career goals: To play in a professional ensemble
Fun Fact #1: Huge Star Wars fan
Fun Fact #2: Been to the DCI finals every year since 1997

Joe Pawlowicz

Year in School: Freshman
Major: Music Education
Equipment:
Hometown:
Career Goals:
Fun Fact #1:
Fun Fact #2:

Karl Zelle

Year in School: Senior
Major: Music Performance/Composition
Equipment: Willson 3050 Tuba
Hometown: The Colony, Texas
Career Goals: Orchestral Musician/Film Composer
Fun Fact #1: Karl's high school's orchestra performed one of his compositions
Fun Fact #2: Both his parents are alumni of Iowa State University

Dodzi Dzakuma, tuba - Member through Fall 2004

Amy Letcher, euphonium - Graduated Fall 2004, currently student teaching

Greg Mazunik, tuba - Graduated Spring 2005, now a church music director in Iowa City

Alex Prevett, tuba - Member through Spring 2005, currently serving in the US Army 

Mitch Monson, euphonium - Member through Spring 2005, currently attending college in Illinois

Beth Sears, euphonium - Member through Spring 2005

Ivan Miller, tuba -  Member through Fall 2005, currently enrolled at the University of Iowa

Leila Sjoholm, euphonium & tuba  - Member through Fall 2005

David Ancelet, euphonium - Graduated Spring 2006, living in Minnesota

Tom Isaacson, euphonium - Graduated Spring 2006, currently student teaching

Jake Kline, tuba - Member Fall of 2007, currently performing in Germany

Claire Sievers, tuba - Graduated with a Masters degree in May 2007

Josh Calkin, tuba - Member through Spring 2007, currently Professor at Wayne State, NE