Friday, October 23, 2009

Season X

After a 3 season long hiatus, Wolfs Percussion Theatre will finally be returning to competition on the FMA circuit. As before, WPT will be competing in Open Class.

The Ensemble will be presenting a 4 Movement Show entitled, "Pandora's Box" which features music made specifically for the ensemble by the staff.

Mvmt. I -The Opening
Mvmt. II -The Chaos
Mvmt. III -The Victory
Mvmt. IV -The Closing

The entire W.P.T. Staff will be returning as will a few newcomers to assist the Ensemble at performing to the best of it's ability.

The Staff:
Caption Head-T.J. Woolfolk
Battery Caption-Cliff Hill
Battery Arranger-*Jeff Williams
Battery Technician(s)-Trey Pierce(snare), *Jason Smith(Snare), Andrew Anderson(Tenors), *Yuri Palao(Tenors), *Chris Peterson(Bass), *Hawk Williams(Bass), *Katie Young(Bass)
Front Ensemble Caption-Asia Vasquez
Front Ensemble Arranger-*Erin Castle
Front Ensemble Technician(s)-*Crystal West, *Alex Jones
Music Caption-Bradley Richardson
Visual Caption-Trevor Wright
Visual Coordinator(s)-*Jeff Young, *Alex Mitchell

Cliff Hill- Cliff joined The WPT Staff in Season III after Eric Hammond left the ensemble to work with The Elite IPE(An Indoor Ensemble, owned by The Interest Enterprises, that competes in PIW). He replaced Eric as the Battery Caption and has held the position ever since.
*Jeff Williams- Jeff joins the staff as a former member of The Wolves(D&BC) Percussion Staff where he was Acting Percussion Caption, Heading the Battery Caption as well. He will be the Battery Arranger for WPT as well as Co-Battery Caption.
Trey Pierce- Trey rejoins the WPT Staff, again as Acting Snare Technician. Trey has been the WPT Snare Technician since it's inception is Season I.
*Jason Smith- Jason is a former member of The Wolves Drum and Bugle Corps and Wolfs Percussion Theatre. He was the Battery Section Leader at The Wolves for season's I and II when the Percussion section had tremendous success. He is a Snare Technician for WPT and is also Acting Snare Technician for The Wolves.
Andrew Anderson- Andrew joined the WPT staff in Season III as Acting Tenor Technician after his older brother, Derrick, moved on to work as Percussion Caption for The Titans D&BC.
*Yuri Palao- Yuri, A former Drum Captain for the award winning Wolves D&BC Drumline as well as a former member of the Wolfs Percussion Theatre, will be joining the WPT as a Quad Technician.
*Chris Peterson- Chris is a former member of WPT, where he acted as Bass Captain for Seasons I-IV. After taking a break from the activity he has joined the staff as the Acting Bass Technician. He is also Bass Technician for The Wolves D&BC.
*Hawk Williams- Hawk is a former member of WPT. He Acted as Bass Captain in Season V for WPT and was also a member of The Wolves Bassline in Season's IV and V. He will be joining the staff as a Bass Technician.
*Katie Young- Katie is a former member of WPT. She was Acting Bass Captain in Season VI and will be joining the WPT staff as a Bass Technician.
Asia Vasquez- Asia has been with WPT since it's inception, acting as Front Ensemble Caption. She has also worked with The Elite IPE as Acting Front Ensemble Technician.
*Erin Castle- Erin has been with The Wolves D&BC since it's inception at the start of FMA Season I. She has been the Front Ensemble Caption as well as Front Ensemble Arranger. She will be Acting as Front Ensemble Arranger and also as Co-Front Ensemble Caption for WPT.
*Crystal West- Crystal West is a former member of Wolfs Percussion Theatre. She acted as Front Ensemble Captain during Season's II-VI. She was also a member of The Wolves Drum Corps Front Ensemble during Season's V and VI. She has now joined The WPT Staff as Front Ensemble Technician. She is also on Percussion Staff for The Wolves D&BC.
*Alex Jones- Alex is a former member of WPT. He acted as Battery Captain in Seasons IV-VI. He was a member of the Front Ensemble during season's II and III. He will be joining the staff as a Front Ensemble technician.
Bradley Richardson- Brad has been with WPT since it's inception. He has been Acting as Ensemble Music Caption, and has also worked with The Titans D&BC as Percussion Arranger for the Front Ensemble.
Trevor Wright- Trevor joined the WPT Staff in Season III after aging out after Season II. He replaced Tyler Anderson as Acting Visual Caption. He will once again be Acting Visual Caption for WPT, as well as a Visual Technician for The Wolves D&BC.
*Jeff Young- Jeff is a former member of The Wolves D&BC. He aged-out after Season IV as Acting High Brass Captain. He has since joined The Wolves Visual Staff as Brass Visual Technician. He will be joining The WPT Staff this season as a Visual Coordinator.
*Alex Mitchell- Alex originally joined The Wolves D&BC in Season I as a member of the Color Guard Staff. For Season X she moved the The Wolves Visual Staff as Co-Visual Coordinator with Tyler Anderson. She will be joining the WPT Staff as Co-Visual Coordinator with Jeff Young.


We hope that the ensemble will find success as it has in past seasons as we attempt to return to the upper echelon of PIO in our first competitive season since Season VI.

T.J. Woolfolk
Caption Head
Wolfs Percussion Theatre

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