NEMC Summer Workshop 2023

NEMC SUMMER WORKSHOP IS BACK!

We have some amazing presenters lined up for a day of professional development, fellowship, and music making.

ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS

Mr. Peter Sciaino

(b.1975) is a passionate music educator, author and composer of band and orchestra music for all levels. The creator of the United System for Winds and Percussion, he is currently published with Alfred Music, C.L. Barnhouse Company, C. Alan Publications, Carl Fischer Music, Excelcia Music Publishing, RWS Music Company and Wingert-Jones Publications in the United States and Hafabra Music in Europe. Peter holds a BM from Syracuse University in Music Education and an MA from New York University in Music Composition. An instrumental music teacher at Whippany Park High School (NJ) for over 25 years, he directs both the concert band and jazz ensemble while co-directing the marching band and teaching AP Music Theory. Peter resides in New Jersey with his wife and two children and enjoys collecting jazz on vinyl while obsessing over small-batch, independent coffee roasters.

Dr. Scott Watson

An award-winning and frequently commissioned composer, Scott Watson's unique voice - evident in more than 100 published concert band, orchestra and chamber works at all levels - is informed equally by his experiences with contemporary concert art music and the band world. Watson’s music has been performed around the world and in the U.S. at such prestigious venues as Philadelphia’s Academy of Music, the Midwest Clinic (Chicago) and at the White House. Dr. Watson is currently Professor of Music in the School of Music, Cairn University (Langhorne, PA) following 35 years teaching instrumental and elective music in the Parkland School District (Allentown, PA).