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Richard Saucedo
Original Music Compositions by Richard Saucedo |  Richard Saucedo is currently Director of Bands and Performing Arts
Department Chairman at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana. Under his
direction, Carmel bands have received numerous state and national
honors in the areas of concert, jazz and marching. The Carmel High
School Wind Symphony was invited to the Bands of America National
Concert Band Festival in 1992 and 1999, and was named the Indiana State
Champion concert band in 1999. The Carmel High School Marching
Greyhounds, having been a consistent National finalist since 1995, was
crowned the 2005 Bands of America Grand National Champion. Also in
2005, the Wind Symphony 1 was invited to perform at the prestigious
Midwest Clinic in Chicago. The Indiana Bandmasters Association named
Mr. Saucedo Indiana's "Bandmaster of the Year" for 1998-99.
The band program at Carmel currently serves 350 instrumentalists in
four concert bands, four jazz ensembles, a 200-member marching band, a
140-member pep band, a competitive and non-competitive winter color
guard, a competitive winter drumline, three music theory classes, a
jazz improvisation class, a music technology class and two percussion
classes.
Mr. Saucedo is a freelance arranger and composer, having released
numerous marching band arrangements, concert band works and choral
compositions. He is currently on the writing staff for Hal Leonard
Corporation.
Mr. Saucedo is constantly in demand as an adjudicator, clinician and
guest conductor for concert band, jazz band, marching band, orchestra
and show choir. He has served as Music Caption Head for the Drum Corps
Midwest Judges Guild and as a brass and music judge for Drum Corps
International. Mr. Saucedo has also served as the brass arranger and
music ensemble consultant for the DCI World Champion Cavaliers Drum and
Bugle Corps from Rosemont, Illinois. The Cavaliers have performed many
of Mr. Saucedo's original works.
Mr. Saucedo did his undergraduate work at Indiana University in
Bloomington and finished his masters degree at Butler University in
Indianapolis. | |
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