Welcome
新年快乐 (Xin nian kuai le) - Happy New Year - and welcome to Beijing!
I'm excited to host my first APAC, and ISB’s first APAC Band since XXXX. Since COVID restrictions have lifted, this is the first school year where students are travelling in and out of China for APAC events, and it’s an honor to be a part of the return to the roots of the festival - collaboration across borders and cultures, coming together to produce something that none of us could do alone.
Our guest conductor, Dr. Travis Cross, has put together a program that blends the old and new, providing plenty of challenges for our young musicians to dig into. In a time where many of us don’t have a full instrumentation, festivals like this are an invaluable opportunity for students to experience the sound of the full band orchestration while cutting their teeth on some true cornerstones and emerging stars of the wind ensemble repetoire.
A fair warning - Beijing is cold and DRY this time of year; be sure to bring a refillable water bottle and some hand cream (and Guangzhou folks: bring an actual winter coat!).
Wishing you all safe travels on your way here, and I can’t wait to welcome you all to our campus in a few weeks.
David Powell
ISB Band Director
Welcome to APAC Band 2024 at ISB!
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Simon Parker
Director of Student Activities
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Guest Conductor
Travis J. Cross
Guest Conductor
Travis J. Cross (he/him) serves as professor of music and director of bands at UCLA, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and leads the graduate wind conducting program. He chaired the music department from 2018–2023 and was associate dean for academic mentoring and opportunity during the initial years of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. Cross has conducted the UCLA Wind Ensemble at the California All-State Music Education Conference and College Band Directors National Association Western/Northwestern Division conference and prepared the band for centenary performances of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass with Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. During five years as wind ensemble conductor at Virginia Tech, Cross led students in performances at the Virginia Music Educators Association conference, Kennedy Center, and Carnegie Hall and developed the Virginia Tech Band Directors Institute into a major conducting workshop. Cross earned doctor and Master of Music degrees in conducting from Northwestern University and the Bachelor of Music degree cum laude in vocal and instrumental music education from St. Olaf College. His principal teachers were Mallory Thompson and Timothy Mahr. Prior to graduate study, he taught for four years at Edina (Minn.) High School, where he conducted two concert bands and led the marching band program. Cross wrote a chapter for volume four of Composers on Composing for Bandan contributed to The Horizon Leans Forward: Stories of Courage, Strength, and Triumph of Underrepresented Communities in the Wind Band Field and The Future of the Wind Band: Philosopher and Practitioner in Dialog, all available from GIA Publications. His more than 20 original compositions and arrangements are published by Boosey &Hawkes, Daehn Publications/C.L. Barnhouse, and Theodore Music. Cross has appeared as a guest conductor, composer, and clinician in nearly 40states;internationally in Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates; as featured band clinician at the Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention; and on several occasions at the Music for All National Festival and Midwest Clinic. He has engagements in California, Connecticut, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah, China, and Singapore during the2024–25 season. Cross is a member of the Council of Korean Americans and a Yamaha Master Educator
Travis J. Cross (he/him) serves as professor of music and director of bands at UCLA, where he conducts the Wind Ensemble and leads the graduate wind conducting program. He chaired the music department from 2018–2023 and was associate dean for academic mentoring and opportunity during the initial years of the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music. He previously taught at Virginia Tech and Edina (Minn.) High School. Cross earned doctor and Master of Music degrees in conducting from Northwestern University and the Bachelor of Music degree cum laude in vocal and instrumental music education from St. Olaf College. His principal teachers were Mallory Thompson and Timothy Mahr. Cross has appeared as a guest conductor, composer, and clinician in nearly 40states;Australia,Canada, China, Germany, Japan, Korea, Singapore, Spain, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates; as featured band clinician at the Texas Music Educators Association Clinic/Convention; and on several occasions at the Music for All National Festival and Midwest Clinic. Cross is a member of the Council of Korean Americans and a Yamaha Master Educator.