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Richard Saucedo
Biography
Richard Saucedo is currently Director of Bands and Performing Arts Department Chairman at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana. Under his direction, Carmel bands have received numerous state and national honors in the areas of concert, jazz and marching. The Carmel High School Wind Symphony was invited to the Bands of America National Concert Band Festival in 1992 and 1999, and was named the Indiana State Champion concert band in 1999. The Carmel High School Marching Greyhounds, having been a consistent National finalist since 1995, was crowned the 2005 Bands of America Grand National Champion. Also in 2005, the Wind Symphony 1 was invited to perform at the prestigious Midwest Clinic in Chicago. The Indiana Bandmasters Association named Mr. Saucedo Indiana's "Bandmaster of the Year" for 1998-99.
The band program at Carmel currently serves 350 instrumentalists in four concert bands, four jazz ensembles, a 200-member marching band, a 140-member pep band, a competitive and non-competitive winter color guard, a competitive winter drumline, three music theory classes, a jazz improvisation class, a music technology class and two percussion classes.
Mr. Saucedo is a freelance arranger and composer, having released numerous marching band arrangements, concert band works and choral compositions. He is currently on the writing staff for Hal Leonard Corporation.
Mr. Saucedo is constantly in demand as an adjudicator, clinician and guest conductor for concert band, jazz band, marching band, orchestra and show choir. He has served as Music Caption Head for the Drum Corps Midwest Judges Guild and as a brass and music judge for Drum Corps International. Mr. Saucedo is currently brass arranger and music ensemble consultant for the DCI World Champion Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps from Rosemont, Illinois. The Cavaliers will perform a show of original music by Mr. Saucedo during the 2002 Drum Corps International Season.
Mr. Saucedo did his undergraduate work at Indiana University in Bloomington and finished his masters degree at Butler University in Indianapolis.
Works for Winds
- American Barndance
- Angelic Festival
- Antares
- Asian Folk Rhapsody
- Awakening Hills
- Celtic Christmas, A
- Chorale and Presto
- Christmas Festival Overture
- Fanfare for the Third Planet
- Fantasy on Keystone Chorale
- Fantasy on a Theme by Samuel Barber
- Fantasy on an Irish Air
- Flight of the Thunderbird
- Georgian Court Fanfare
- Hymn for the Cream and Crimson
- In Perfect Silence, I Often Gaze at the New Stars
- Into the Clouds
- Nightsong
- Noel
- Ode to Greensleeves
- Regal Fanfare
- Rendezvous With the Other Side
- Rhythm Dance
- Rondo for Band
- Snow Caps
- Song and Dance
- Song of the Gandy Dancers
- Spirit of the Falcon
- Symphony I (Saucedo)
- Temecula Valley Fanfare
- To This Hearbeat There is No End
- Triumphant Fanfare
- Ukranian Bell Carol
- Whirlwind(s)
- With Each Sunset (Comes the Promise of a New Day)
- Windsprints
References
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