WWSHS Tiger Marching Band Places 1st in Class A at Chicagoland Marching Band Festival

The Wheaton Warrenville South High School Tiger Marching Band placed 1st out of five bands in Class A division at the 46th Annual Chicagoland Marching Band Festival at Wheeling High School on Saturday, September 21. Also in its class, WWSHS won awards for Outstanding Music, Outstanding General Effect, Outstanding Percussion, and Outstanding Auxiliary.    

WWSHS was one of 22 bands competing at the Chicagoland Marching Band Festival. Each band competed in one of three classes, with class size being determined by the number of musicians in the band. All bands were judged on music performance, visual performance, general effect, percussion, and color guard.

For its 2013 competitive season, the Tiger Marching Band is presenting a 7.5-minute show titled “Inner Conflict,” which features three distinct movements: Hope, Darkness, and Unity. The music was composed by Jordan Yi, director of bands at Jefferson High School in Rockford, Illinois. Yi is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and a former member of the Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps. Along with writing the music for this year’s WWSHS competitive program, Yi designed the show’s drill, a set of diagrams illustrating the complex formations band members create on the field during a show.

This year’s Tiger Marching Band features 89 members, and is comprised of 20 freshmen, 15 sophomores, 20 juniors, and 34 seniors. These band members hail from Wheaton (64), Warrenville (22), Naperville (1), Glen Ellyn (1), and Lisle (1).

The Tiger Marching Band is scheduled to compete next in the Falcon Marching Band Festival at Wheaton North High School on Saturday, September 28, the Naperville Central High School Marching Classic on Saturday, October 5, and the State of Illinois Marching Band Championship on the campus of Illinois State University on Saturday, October 12.

The band is directed by Vic Scimeca. Tiger Marching Band staff  includes assistants Jordan Yi and Don Kaihatsu, and Greg Abel, Alex Boyajian, Daniel Pratt, Dan Eastwood, Amanda Malarich, Tara Jarvie, and Veronica Dekruiff.

For more information about the Tiger Marching Band, contact Vic Scimeca, at victorscimeca@cusd200.org.