Clayton High School Band Boosters 2010-2011
Clayton High School
Band Boosters
P.O. Box 962
Clayton, NC 27528
Band Boosters
P.O. Box 962
Clayton, NC 27528
Jake McAllister is a native of Clayton, North Carolina. He graduated from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina with a Master of Music in Music Education and Bachelor of Music in Music Education. A National Board Certified Teacher, Mr. McAllister served as band director at Clayton High School in Clayton, North Carolina and at Princeton High School in Princeton, North Carolina. He currently is a North Carolina Principal Fellow at East Carolina University earning a Master of School Administration degree.
Mr. McAllister currently serves in the North Carolina National Guard with the 440th Army Band. He has also performed with the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra and toured across America with the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps from Denver, Colorado.
Mr. McAllister lives in Clayton with his beautiful wife Deborah, daughter Julianne Reese, and beagle named Bailey. They are members of Baptist Center Church. Mr. McAllister enjoys motorcycling, boating, going to the lake and being active in the community.
Mr. McAllister currently serves in the North Carolina National Guard with the 440th Army Band. He has also performed with the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra and toured across America with the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps from Denver, Colorado.
Mr. McAllister lives in Clayton with his beautiful wife Deborah, daughter Julianne Reese, and beagle named Bailey. They are members of Baptist Center Church. Mr. McAllister enjoys motorcycling, boating, going to the lake and being active in the community.
Shawn Galvin has served as Program Coordinator and Percussion Instructor at Clayton High School since 2009. He has served in a similar capacity with award winning high school band programs throughout the eastern United States. Shawn has presented educational clinics and masterclasses around the country, and has appeared at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, Bands of America National Percussion Festival, the Bands of America Summer Symposium, and the MENC National Convention. Shawn has also served as a member of the Percussive Arts Society Symphonic Committee.
From 2001 through 2008, Shawn served as Principal Timpanist of the United States Navy Band, Washington, DC. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1997 under leading conductors including Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Chales Dutoit, Manfred Honneck, David Zinman, Rafeal Fruahbeck de Burgos, Gianandrea Noseda, Stéphane Denève, and Bernard Klee. Currently, Shawn performs with the North Carolina Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and is the founder of New Music Raleigh, a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to performing the works of living composers.
Shawn received his Bachelor of Music degree in percussion performance from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA). He currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his wife Karen, who serves as Assistant Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony. He enjoys reading, biking, skiing, coffee, and studying music. Shawn is a YAMAHA Performing Artist and an artist/clinician for Innovative Percussion. Find more info at www.shawngalvin.com
From 2001 through 2008, Shawn served as Principal Timpanist of the United States Navy Band, Washington, DC. He has performed with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra since 1997 under leading conductors including Lorin Maazel, Mariss Jansons, Chales Dutoit, Manfred Honneck, David Zinman, Rafeal Fruahbeck de Burgos, Gianandrea Noseda, Stéphane Denève, and Bernard Klee. Currently, Shawn performs with the North Carolina Symphony, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, and is the founder of New Music Raleigh, a contemporary music ensemble dedicated to performing the works of living composers.
Shawn received his Bachelor of Music degree in percussion performance from Duquesne University (Pittsburgh, PA). He currently lives in Raleigh, NC, with his wife Karen, who serves as Assistant Concertmaster of the North Carolina Symphony. He enjoys reading, biking, skiing, coffee, and studying music. Shawn is a YAMAHA Performing Artist and an artist/clinician for Innovative Percussion. Find more info at www.shawngalvin.com
I attended Clayton High from 2004 to 2008. I was apart of the color guard and winter guard all four years at Clayton. During the summer of 2006 I marched drum corps with a group out of Columbus, OH called Capital Regiment. During winter guard my senior year I started to help Jean teach our Junior Varsity winter guard as a part of my senior project. I began officially working with the color guard and JV winter guard fall of 2008. During the winter of 2010 I was apart of a world winter guard out of Cary, NC called First Flight which placed 12th in the World. I am now going on my third year of teaching at Clayton and I enjoy it immensely. As well as teaching I am a full time student going into my junior year studying Dental Hygiene. I'm looking forward to this year teaching the largest color guard we have ever had!
I attended Clayton from 2005 to 2009 and was a part of the colorguard and winterguard for all four years. I also went on to spin with First Flight Independent World Guard in 2010 where we placed 12th. I have taught winterguard at Jamestown Middle School. I am starting my third year of college and I plan to get my degree in Special Education. I am very excited to be working with the guard this year.
Bobby McFarland is a native of Clayton, North Carolina. He graduated from UNC Greensboro with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education. He has performed with and attended master classes of leading trombonists and jazz musicians such as James Miller, Don Lucas, Branford and Delfeayo Marsalis, Seamus Blake, and Wycliffe Gordon among many others. As a trombonist, Mr. McFarland has played with various orchestras and chamber ensembles throughout Central North Carolina as well as performed multiple solo recitals.
He is currently the General Music Teacher at Falkland Elementary School in Greenville, NC. Having graduated from Clayton High School, he carries a great sense of pride in how the performing arts program has developed in recent years and is blessed to have the opportunity to be a part of its continuation. He enjoys playing trombone, studying Baroque performance practice, as well as watching and playing sports and spending time with the people who mean the most to him.
He is currently the General Music Teacher at Falkland Elementary School in Greenville, NC. Having graduated from Clayton High School, he carries a great sense of pride in how the performing arts program has developed in recent years and is blessed to have the opportunity to be a part of its continuation. He enjoys playing trombone, studying Baroque performance practice, as well as watching and playing sports and spending time with the people who mean the most to him.
