Band

Band Course Offerings

• Beginning Band
• Intermediate Band
• Junior Band
• Concert Band
• Wind Ensemble

Josclynn Garrison

Wind Ensemble Director and Music Instructor

Josclynn Garrison is a dedicated educator and accomplished musician residing in Southwest Ohio. She holds a Master of Music in Instrumental Conducting (2017) and a Bachelor of Music in Music Education (2014) from the Wright State University School of Music. In 2020, she was honored with the prestigious CBDNA Mike Moss Conducting Study Grant.

Currently, Ms. Garrison serves as the Band Director at Cincinnati’s School for Creative & Performing Arts. She has previously held appointments at Mount St. Joseph University, St. Christopher Catholic School, Urbana University, and the Dayton Regional STEM School. Beyond the classroom, she is an active adjudicator and clinician for honor bands across the region, with recent engagements including the Southeast Missouri State University Honor Band, Wright State University Tri-State Honor Band, and the Peebles County Beginning Honor Band. Josclynn also holds leadership positions as Co-President of the Cincinnati Wind Band and Co-Chair of the OMEA Access & Equity Committee.

In addition to her educational endeavors, Josclynn is an active bassoonist and serves as Principal Bassoonist of the Cincinnati Wind Band. Her talent has taken her to stages around the world. Notable performances include appearances at Carnegie Hall in New York City and Cincinnati's Music Hall, as well as international performances with the Luxembourg Military Band in St. Vith, Belgium, and with the World Adult Wind Orchestra Project in Schladming, Austria.

So much of American music stems from a unique blend of the African American church tradition, the blues, combined with jazz’s harmonic integrity and form. This is a challenge that I face every time I sit at the piano and a task that truly invigorates and inspires me to be creative, joyous, organized, and spontaneously in the moment.

Erwin Stuckey

Jazz Studies Director, Band Instructor and Percussion Instructor

Mr. Erwin Stuckey, a native Cincinnatian, has performed extensively in the United States and South America and is internationally recognized as a true multi instrumentalist ( piano/ jazz organ, percussion, brass ) capable of handling a multitude of musical genres ranging from traditional jazz, European classical, Afro-Cuban and contemporary gospel. He has performed high profile concerts with some of the world’s finest musicians such as John Blake, Malachi Thompson, Frank Foster, Joshua Redmond, Ben Tankard, Kenny Garrett, Terrel Stafford, Steve Wilson, Marlon Jordan, Pharez Witted, Mary Wilson ( Motown Supremes), Marion Meadows, Jeff Coffin of Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, James Carter, Slide Hampton, Arturo Sandoval, and steel drum virtuoso Othello Molineaux. His discography includes over 30 recordings including his most recent personal release titled Giants of Jazz Piano Tribute in which he pays homage to piano greats from Scott Joplin through McCoy Tyner ( Groovemasterworks Publishing 2007). He also enjoys the appointment as music minister of the Abundant Life Faith Fellowship of Cincinnati under the leadership of Pastor Stephen Brown.

As a distinguished educator, Mr. Stuckey has taught jazz piano, jazz history and improvisation at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, Xavier University, Central State University, Northern Kentucky University, and the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes Michigan. In March of 2010, he presented 6 jazz workshops for students and semi professional jazz artists in Krakow Poland. Since 2005, he has directed the Jazz and Percussion programs at the School for Creative and Performing Arts in Cincinnati. Under his leadership, the jazz studies program at SCPA has experienced a renaissance of activity with SCPA students winning numerous awards and post secondary scholarships to leading universities with jazz and commercial music programs.

The SCPA Jazz Program will be adding the school’s first Afro-Latin combo while featuring the Jazz Rep Band and Jazz Dream Band. (Visit scpa.org for jazz concert dates.) Erwin Stuckey is also a 2007 recipient and continuing member of the Nobel Society for educators and scholars.