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Roger Wu Fu is a Taiwanese American conductor, educator, and musician, born and raised in Santiago, Chile. With years of  experience working with musicians from elementary to professional settings, Roger is passionate about illuminating the importance of music’s role in the classroom, in the concert hall, and in the world at large.

 

 Works include music directing chamber operas in a series of works titled “Hope and Despair”, slated to premiere at the Baltimore Theatre Project, music directing and producing a grant-funded original musical entitled “Yappie: The Musical” in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University, and “Musical Picture Whimsies: A Celebration of Art Through Music”, a series of compositions inspired by and accompanying original paintings by Baltimore artists. As a graduate student in wind conducting at Peabody Institute, Roger worked as a conductor, performer, teaching assistant and faculty substitute. At the University of Washington, Roger also worked as an graduate assistant director for the University of Washington Wind Ensemble, the Husky Marching Band. He also led the UW Campus Band, growing its membership to 100+ students and performing concerts and collaborations with the local community yearly. While researching on the need for mental health resources for musicians as an at-risk demographic, Roger also worked as a music history teaching assistant. Projects at the UW have included organizing and executing the UW's yearly UW Band Festival with over 500+ middle school and high school students, international conducting in South Korea with the UW Wind Ensemble's 2024 Korea Tour, Roger also served as a local guest conductor and clinician for various community bands, school bands, and band festivals in the Seattle area. 

 

Drawing from his own varied background studying anthropology for a B.A. at the University of California, Los Angeles, a Masters in Music in Wind Conducting from Peabody Institute with Dr. Harlan D. Parker, as well as a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the University of Washington, Roger seeks to combine a high standard of musical performance with a rigorous and curious academic approach, to create and foster musical experiences for all audiences. 

 

 

Corey Jahlas is in his second year serving as Interim Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Washington. Previously, Corey served as Associate Director of Athletic Bands at the University of Washington, and was the director of the wind ensemble at Seattle Pacific University. He has also spent the past few years as a doctoral teaching assistant with the UW Bands, conducting the UW Concert Band, assisting with the UW Husky Marching Band, and serving as an assistant graduate conductor of the UW Wind Ensemble.

 

Corey earned his Master of Music in Wind Conducting from Central Michigan University. There, he instructed the 280-member Chippewa Marching Band and served as the conductor for the Symphony Band and the University Band. Prior to his Master’s work, Corey taught for three years in Oxford, MI, leading the middle school band program, the OMS Percussion Ensemble, and assisting with the OHS Wildcat Marching Band. He also holds degrees in Music Education as well as Music Theory and Composition from Central Michigan.

 

 In 2014, Corey served as Assistant Director of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps, having marched with the group in 2011. He also serves as a clinician, arranger, and drill writer for high schools and university marching bands across the country and has had his drill featured in six different bowl games, including this past year's 2024 NCAA National Championship game. In the summer, Corey helps to coordinate and run high school drum major and leadership clinics in both Washington and Michigan. Corey holds memberships in the College Band Directors National Association and The National Association for Music Education, Pi Kappa Lambda, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and Kappa Kappa Psi.