Judges Information
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Color Guard Judges Training with Billy Saccomanno, WGI and Tim Gray, WGI
Saturday, December 10, 2011, 12pm-6pm
Blue Valley West High School
16200 Antioch Road
Overland Park, KS 66085
Sponsored by the Mid-Continent Color Guard
Association
RSVP to chiefjudge@mccga.org by
December 1, 2011
$25 Registration Fee
Billy Saccomanno, WGI and MCCGA Chief Judge
Billy Saccomanno relocated to Kansas City, Missouri in 2010, and is the
Chief Judge for the Mid Continent Color Guard Association. He serves as a
Movement Adjudicator for Winter Guard international, the Atlantic Indoor
Association and Florida Federation of Judges Association. Additionally, he
has been serving as a guest judge and clinician for local marching band and
winter guard circuits in 18 different states across the United States.
Billy's passion for the marching arts has been evidenced by many years of
teaching marching band and winter guard including Black Watch, Apex and Bpex,
Innuendo, and Extraordinaire Winter Guards as well as several high schools
in the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina areas. His drum
corps teaching resume includes the Phantom Regiment, Crossmen, Jersey Surf,
Teal Sound, Reading Buccaneers, and Hawthorne Caballeros.
Tim Gray, WGI
Tim Gray is an accomplished drill designer. Tim has written drills, been
a caption head and program coordinator for many bands, winter guards and
drum corps. He serves as a General Effect judge for Winter Guard
International, as well as the Michigan and Midwest Winter Guard Circuits.
Tim has been judging bands and winter guard for over 17 years.
Tim was a marching member of the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps
organization for 8 years. While marching drum corps he won the DCI Solo and
Ensemble competition in 1993. Since marching he has taught many drum corps
including Phantom Regiment, Phantom Legion, Blue Knights, Tar Heel Sun, and
the Bluecoats. He studied Music Performance at Illinois State University.
During his time at ISU he served as principal Euphonium in the Wind
Symphony. Today he continues to teach private lessons to many brass students
and performs locally.
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