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Camp Staff

Camp Directors

Daniel Barthel

Daniel Barthel - Camp Co-director

Daniel Barthel has been teaching band in the Reno area for the past 14 years. He helped open Depoali Middle School in 2009 and since that time, the Depoali band program has experienced consistent participation and success. The program serves around 300 students every year, offering jazz band, concert bands, Winterguard, percussion ensemble and other chamber ensembles. Depoali bands have consistently earned superior ratings in concert band festivals in the Northern Nevada and Northern California areas. Barthel is also active in the band community, serving as the Washoe County School District honor band coordinator and the Nevada Music Educators Association (NMEA) past president and advocacy chair. He has also served as the NMEA president, zone representative and MS All-State band coordinator. He also co-directs the Lake Tahoe Music Camp every summer along with his wife, Amy. Barthel attended the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV earning Bachelor's and Master's degrees in music education. Barthel has two children, is a Reno native and a member of Phi Mu Alpha Men's Music Fraternity and the National Association for Music Education.

Amy Barthel

Amy Barthel - Camp Co-director

Amy Barthel has been on the LTMC staff since 2002 as a music educator and a co-camp director since 2015. She is the Fine Arts Coordinator and Music Supervisor for the Washoe County School District. She serves as a Washoe zone representative for the Nevada Music Educators Association. She is a past president of the Sierra Nevada Chapter of the Orff Schulwerk Association. Barthel earned both her Master of Educational Leadership and Bachelor of Music Education degrees from the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV. Barthel and her husband, Dan, have two children. As a family, they enjoy camping, traveling, Harry Potter, Star Wars and Disneyland.

Band Directors

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Jeffrey D. Williams - Concert Band Director

Jeff Williams serves as a Coordinator for Secondary Music, Dance, and Theatre for the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada. In this role, Mr. Williams guides the largest school district fine arts program in the United States. Prior to this position, Mr. Williams served as director of bands at Miller Middle School in Henderson, Nevada. During his 18-year tenure, the Miller band program grew from 80 students to over 400 students participating in a variety of concert, jazz, and percussion ensembles. Under Mr. Williams’ direction, Miller bands were widely recognized for excellence in performance and earned highest honors in festivals and competitions throughout the southwest. Mr. Williams holds bachelor’s degrees in Music Performance and Education from Northern Arizona University and a Master of Music Education from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Mr. Williams is active as an adjudicator and guest clinician throughout Nevada and the southwest. Mr. Williams is a recipient of the 2021 Nevada Music Educators Association Administrator of the Year. When not making music, he can be found exploring the natural beauty of the desert southwest with his family.

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Patrick Bowen - Jazz Ensemble Director

Patrick Bowen has been the percussion instructor at the Las Vegas Academy since 1994, where the percussion ensemble or soloists have won the Nevada All State Command Performance numerous times. Bowen is in his 12th year at the Academy where he teaches the world jazz studies area and chamber ensembles. He was the percussionist for the hit Broadway show “Mamma Mia” at the Mandalay Bay Resort and is presently the principal percussionist with the Las Vegas Philharmonic. He has a Bachelor’s in music performance from the Hartt School of Music (cum laude), a Master’s in music performance from the University of Montana and a teaching certificate from UNLV.

Jonathan Phillips

Jonathan Phillips - Jazz Ensemble Director

Phillips graduated from the Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV in music education, studying saxophone under Mike McMullen and Peter Epstein. He began touring with the band Sol'Jibe and studied at the National School of Music in Havana, Cuba. In Nevada, Phillips has served as director of the award-winning Wooster High School Bands, headed the All-State and Washoe County Jazz Chairs and directed elementary, middle and high school honor ensembles. Currently a mentor for the Reno Jazz Orchestra, Phillips teaches at Bud Beasley Elementary School and is a sax instructor on the faculty at Truckee Meadows Community College.

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Adam Friedrich - Symphonic Band Director

Adam Friedrich serves as the Associate Director of Bands at the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music (BCCM) at California State University, Long Beach. At the BCCM, he teaches conducting courses for music education and performance majors, is the conductor of the Symphonic Band and Concert Band and serves as the director of the Beach Band which plays at basketball and volleyball games. Friedrich also coordinates the Music for All Pacific Coast Regional Festival and assists with the BCCM Conducting Workshop. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Wind Conducting (DMA ‘24) at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music (CCM) under the guidance of Dr. Kevin Holzman. He joined the CCM Wind Studies team as a Graduate Conducting Associate in the Fall of 2021 and assisted with the Wind Symphony, Wind Ensemble, Brass Choir, Chamber Winds, Chamber Orchestra, Musica Nova, and undergraduate conducting courses. He also served as the assistant conductor of the CCM Youth Symphonic Winds. Friedrich’s previous studies include a master’s degree from Ball State University (MM ‘21), where he studied conducting with Dr. Thomas Caneva. During his time at Ball State, he assisted with the Wind Ensemble, Wind Symphony, Symphony Band, Campus Band, “Pride of Mid-America” Marching Band, Basketball Pep Band, supported undergraduate conducting courses, and taught the Percussion Methods course for undergraduate music education majors. Prior to his graduate studies, Friedrich was the Director of Bands at Concordia Lutheran High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana (2016-2019) where his ensembles across all mediums were consistently awarded superior ratings. Friedrich also holds an undergraduate degree in Music Education from Concordia University Chicago (BME ‘16) where he served as percussion section leader in the Wind Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, was a featured soloist on the Fall 2015 tour, and led the campus Pep Band.

Instructors

Jon Brill – Percussion
Eagle Valley Middle School
Reno, NV

Greg Canfield – Euphonium/Tuba
Spanish Springs High School
Reno, NV

Carmella Cao – Flute
Bishop Gorman High School
Las Vegas, NV

Jeff Depaoli - Accompanist

Paul Fleming – Trombone
Hunter Lake Elementary School
Reno, NV

Patricia Hudson – Clarinet
Sky Ranch Middle School
Sparks, NV

Katie Matsuura - Clarinet
Wy-east Middle School
Vancouver, WA

Carmella Cao – Flute
Bishop Gorman High School
Las Vegas, NV

Michele Panelli – Oboe
Reno, NV

Patricia Hudson – Clarinet
Sky Ranch Middle School
Sparks, NV

Katie Matsuura – Clarinet
Wy’east Middle School
Vancouver, WA

Steven Alberti – Bassoon
Step into Music
Reno, NV

Jack Scarbrough – Saxophone
Herz Middle School
Reno, NV

Ryan Stewart – Saxophone
Reno, NV

Kyle/Kevin Overlay – Trumpet
Mendive Middle School
Sparks, NV

Jarod Sorum – Trumpet
Southridge High School
Beaverton, OR

Kevin Miescke – Horn
Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV
Reno, NV

Kevin Sady – Trombone
Anderson Elementary School
Reno, NV

Paul Fleming – Baritone/Euphonium/Tuba
Hunter Lake Elementary School
Reno, NV

Jon Brill – Percussion
Eagle Valley Middle School
Reno, NV

Kyle Zive – Percussion
Âé¶¹´«Ã½AV and Oak Ridge High School
Reno, NV

Ariel Scarbrough – Ukulele
Bennett Elementary School
Reno, NV