Band

David Burchfield: Wind Ensemble Director and Music Instructor

Mr. David Burchfield currently serves as Director of Symphonic Winds at the Cincinnati School for Creative and Performing Arts and as Associate Conductor of the Hamilton-Fairfield Symphony Orchestra. His previous position was with the Fairfield, Ohio City Schools where he was Director of Bands from 1979 to 2002.. During his tenure at Fairfield, his bands were OMEA State Finals qualifiers for 20 years. The Fairfield Marching Band participated in the Coca Cola Centennial, multiple Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500 Festivals, the Blockbuster Bowl, multiple appearances in the FedEx Orange Bowl, the Hollywood Christmas Parade, and was invited to participate in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Mr. Burchfield attended Eastern Kentucky University, Miami University, and the College Conservatory of Music at The University of Cincinnati. He studied trumpet with Herbert Tiemeyer, Frederick Peterson, and William Adam and studied conducting with Vaclav Nelhybel, Eugene Migliario Corporon, and Mallory Thompson. An active adjudicator and clinician for 25 years, Mr Burchfield has been affiliated with OMEA, ISSMA, and the Oklahoma Bandmasters Association.

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.

This year, 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.

“ 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.”

Band Course Offerings:

Beginning Band
Intermediate Band
Concert Band
Symphonic Wind Ensemble
Jazz Ensemble 1
Jazz Ensemble 2