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Paul Berler
Director
Paul Berler became Music Director of the Chelmsford Community Band in 2001,
having served as Assistant Director since 1997. He is the band's seventh music
director since its founding in 1972. Since his debut with the band, Mr. Berler
has led the CCB in repertoire ranging from Bach, Mozart, and Strauss, to music
of Holst, Ives, Grainger, and Sousa. He has also overseen the premieres of
music by contemporary composers such as Daniel Bukvich, Michael Annicchiarico,
J. Windel Brown, and Ed Roseman.
Paul Berler is also a music tutor for saxophone and clarinet. In his ten
years of instruction, he has taught over 100 middle and high school students,
with a majority of those students selected to participate in state and regional
music festivals. Recently, Mr. Berler has replaced his conductor's baton with
the composer's pen. His fledgling publishing comapny, Rooster Hair Music, Inc.,
will be up and running soon.
Mr. Berler has degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music and the
University of New Hampshire. He currently resides in New Hampshire with his
wife and two young children.
Timothy Moore
Assistant Director
Timothy Moore has been the Assistant Director of the Chelmsford Community
Band since 2003.
He is also currently a member of the percussion section of the band.
Mr. Moore graduated Magna cum laude from Grove City College with Bachelor of
Music in Music Education.
Mr. Moore currently resides in Billerica, Massachusetts and teaches in the
Billerica and Bedford Public School Systems.
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Paul Combs
Jazz Ensemble Director
Paul Combs has been the director of the Chelmsford Community Band Jazz
Ensemble since 2003.
He received his earliest musical training in voice and trombone and studied
saxophone, harmony and counterpoint as a teenager.
Mr. Combs graduated with a B.Mus. in composition from the Philadelphia Musical
Academy and earned his M.M. in performance at the University of Massachusetts
Lowell.
His eclectic career has included performing, composing for theater, film,
radio and television, and producing and announcing at radio stations in
Philadelphia and Boston.
From 1986 to 1999 he worked full-time in music education, which he had been
involved in to some degree since 1965.
Currently Mr. Combs is working as a free-lance performer, educator and
author.
He is heard regularly at various Eastern New England venues in combos, big
bands and with his Pocket Big Band.
He has a full roster of private students and is listed as a lecturer in the
New Hampshire Humanities Council "Humanities To Go" Catalog.
As an author he has written for several music education publications as well
as Jazz Improv Magazine and is working on a book about the music of composer
and arranger Tadd Dameron that will be published by University of Michigan
Press in 2006.
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| Board Members - 2008 |
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| Director: | Paul Berler |
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| President: | David Siebecker |
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| Vice President: | Tom Cox |
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| Secretary: | Sue Guillemette |
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| Treasurer: | Carmen Langthorne |
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| Planning: | vacant |
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| Publicity: | Trude Witham |
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| Personnel: | David Tweed |
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| Fundraising: | Roger Wiegand |
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| Librarian: | Barbara Allen & Vanessa René |
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| Equipment: | Steve Bower |
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| Member-at-large: | Susan Parsons |
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| Members by Section |
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This is set up for when the band needs to be quickly notified
of a last-minute change in plans, like a rain-out or change of
venue.
The plan is that Paul or one of the officers
(David, Tom, Sue, Carmen) will notify all
of the section leaders, who will in turn notify the members of their sections.
Also, if you cannot be at a rehearsal or a performance, and
especially if you have a folder in your possession,
be sure to notify your section leader or one of the officers.
NOTE
Unsolicited email (spam) to addresses culled from websites such as this
is becoming an increasing problem.
As a result, it has become necessary to implement the following rule:
In order to use any of the following email links, you MUST include the
characters [CCB] (including the square brackets) anywhere in the
Subject: line of your message.
Any message NOT containing that exact 5-character ASCII string somewhere
in the Subject: line will be summarily discarded.
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director:
Paul Berler
assistant director:
Timothy Moore
flute:
Phyllis Howard (section leader),
Tom Cox,
Kathy Johnson,
Jackie Martin,
Debbie Moylan,
Susan Schueller
clarinet:
Bill Cohen (section leader),
Ann Donoghue,
Brendan Dorr,
Alyson Fortune,
Russ Kenyon,
Lisa McArdle,
Craig E. Meyer,
Mark Rennella,
Rosemary Sears,
Colin Strutt,
Ivan Yu
oboe, bassoon, bass clarinet:
Vanessa René (section leader),
Susan Parsons,
Leslie Young,
Marlene Buckley,
Martha Hicks-Courant
saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone:
Rob Granville (section leader),
Carmen Langthorne,
Ken Muzykewicz,
Catherine Stacy,
Trude Witham,
John Calhoun
french horn, percussion:
Sue Guillemette (section leader),
Barbara Allen,
Elaine D'Alessandro,
Eileen Poland,
Jo-Ann Gerde
trumpet:
Jerry Hardy (section leader),
Roger Cappallo,
Chuck Cummings,
John R. Feitor,
Larry Lacey,
Eric Linsner,
Tony Pirri,
David Siebecker
trombone, baritone, tuba, string bass:
Ange Ortolano (section leader),
Steve Bower,
Susan Current,
Mike Carchia,
Carolyn Dooley,
David Tweed,
Robert R. Weller,
Roger Wiegand
vocalist:
Leslie Koresky
Names in italics are inactive or summer-only members.
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domain:
- ccb-announce@chelmsfordband.org
- This list is used to make announcements about band activities to the
general public.
To subscribe, send an empty email (the subject and body are ignored) to
ccb-announce-join@chelmsfordband.org.
To unsubscribe, send an empty email to
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reply to in order to complete the request.
- ccb-members@chelmsfordband.org
- This list is for the internal activities of the band. All band members
with email addresses are subscribed to this list, and any band member
may post a message to the list. Please use it sparingly, and only for
information or requests that are truly relevant to the entire band.
Messages must be text only — no attachments are allowed.
- ccb-jazz-members@chelmsfordband.org
- This list is for the internal activities of the jazz band.
All jazz band members with email addresses are subscribed to this
list, and any jazz band member may post a message to the list.
Messages must be text only — no attachments are allowed.
- ccb-board@chelmsfordband.org
- This list is primarily for the business of the band board, but anyone
may use it to bring something to the attention of the board. Only board
members and the band directors are members of this list. Anyone may send
messages to this list, but only list members can read them. Attachments
are allowed.
Note: On 2007/1/8, changes were made to our hosting provider's
email system that require list names to be unique across their entire server.
This is why "ccb-" was prepended to each of the list names.
Personal Email Alias
Note that every band member also has a personal "...@chelmsfordband.org"
email address that forwards mail to their "real" email address.
To find out what your email alias is, just click on your name above.
Your real email address will never be disclosed to anyone outside the
band without your explicit permission.
This forwarding mechanism has certain filters installed to resist the
unsolicited messages from people who harvest email addresses from
websites. Currently they are:
- Any email in which the recipient's address does not appear in the To:
or CC: fields of the header is discarded. This means that you cannot BCC:
one of these addresses (a common spammer trick).
- Any email with an executable attachment (characteristic of the Klez
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- Any email that mentions the words "million" and "dollars" in that
order is blocked. For some reason, the "African money scam" people have
been particularly problematic.
More filters will be added as needed.
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