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Questions?  Please contact:
Ian Melrose
ipmelro@sunprairieschools.org
608-318-8064

Interested in being a part of Sun Prairie Honor Bands?

  • Fill out the Student Application (pg. 3) & turn into your band director for submission ASAP 
  • Band Directors submit their recommendations by October 6, HERE
  • For general information and festival schedule please Click Here
  • SIGN-UP GENIUS - Parent Volunteers (coming October 2022)
Sun Prairie Honors Band 
Saturday November 12, 2022 @ Central Heights Middle School
  • The Sun Prairie Middle Level Honor Band is for 6th, 7th & 8th grade students.  .
  • For general information and festival schedule please Click Here
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2022 Conductor - Dr. Catharine Sinon Bushman
Catharine Sinon Bushman is the Associate Professor of Music Education and Instrumental Conducting at St. Cloud State University. Her teaching responsibilities include leading the Wind Ensemble, conducting and courses in music education. She is also the Norseman Band conductor (2021-22) at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Dr. Bushman received a DMA in Wind Conducting at The University of Texas at Austin in 2012. She holds degrees in Music Education from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University.
       Previously, Dr. Bushman served on the faculty of Winthrop University where she led the Symphonic Band, taught graduate and undergraduate courses in music education, and supervised student interns. Dr. Bushman was an Assistant Director of Bands at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Georgia from 1998-2007. Her professional memberships include
College Band Directors National Association, Women Band Directors International, Minnesota Society for Music Teacher Education, Minnesota Music Educators Association and Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity. She is a member of the Executive Council for the Institute for Composer Diversity and partner for And We Were Heard and One the List.
      She maintains an active schedule as a guest conductor, adjudicator, and clinician for marching and concert bands. She has presented at the state and national level on teaching in disadvantaged communities, mentoring of women band directors, woodwind pedagogy and music by historically marginalized composers. In 2016, Dr. Bushman began conducting the
St. Cloud Municipal Band, an all-adult concert band that performs locally and abroad.

BANDS:

  • Sun Prairie High School
  • Central Heights Middle School
  • Patrick Marsh Middle School
  • Prairie View Middle School

SUPPORT:

  • Sun Prairie Band Boosters
  • Bernie Powers Foundation
  • Sun Prairie Area School District


 Sun Prairie Bands
“Move beyond the notes to cultivate a life long passion and drive for creativity, curiosity, and community through a vision of students as accomplished learners and evolving musicians in pursuit of artistry”