Iowa Regional Championship, presented by Yamaha
BAND PROGRAM INFORMATION
October 4, 2025 - Des Moines, IA
This document is provided to our adjudicators as we no longer print program books at our regional championships. It is listed in prelims performance order as of a few days prior to the show. However, performance orders can change. Please take great care to be certain that you are referencing the correct band program information for the correct performance. If information is missing for a participating group, visit the online spectator guide for this show at marching.musicforall.org/schedule.
Omaha Burke H.S., NE
Omaha, NE
Director(s): Kyle Brubaker
Drum Major(s): Valerie King
Repertoire: Somewhere
Musical Selections Include: "Joyride" by Michael Markowski; "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" by Yip Harburg and Harold Allen; "160 BPM" by Hans Zimmer; and "Hope from the Prayer Cycle" by Jonathan Elias
Muscatine H.S., IA
Muscatine, IA
Director(s): Jeffery Heid
Drum Major(s): Maya Simpson, Vania Marmol, Marissa Eads, and Natalie Clove
Repertoire: Once Upon A Dream
Musical Selections Include: "Sweet Dreams are Made of This" by Eurythmics; "Sleeping Beauty" by Tchaikovsky; "Dreams" by Cranberries; "Young and Beautiful" by Lana Del Ray; and "You Can't Stop The girl" by Bebe Rexha
Blue Valley West H.S., KS
Overland Park, KS
Director(s): Justin W. Love
Drum Major(s): Aubree Bowsher*, Alexa Gallegos*, and Riley Mayer*
Repertoire: Abracadabra
Musical Selections Include: "Abracadabra" by Lady Gaga; "Everything in its Right Place" by Radiohead; "Night on Bald Mountain" by Modest Mussourgsky; and "Gnossiennes: No 1, Lent" by Erik Satie
*Drum Major attended the 2025 Bands of America Summer Camp
Bellevue West H.S., NE
Bellevue, NE
Director(s): Marques Eckhoff and Jason Pentico
Drum Major(s): Ethan Arul, JaKyia Bethea, and Jason Hughes
Repertoire: A Seat at the Big Kids' Table
Musical Selections Include: "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" by Benjamin Britten; "Forever Young" by Marian Gold, Bernhard Lloyd, Frank Mertens; "Teenage Dirtbag" by Brendan Brown; and "Rocky Point Holiday" by Ron Nelson
Normal H.S., IL
Normal, IL
Director(s): Ryan Budzinski and Paul Carter
Drum Major(s): Jackson DeJaynes, Mohnish Janagan, Sophia Le, and Alexis Windhorn
Repertoire: Monsters of Our Own Creation
Musical Selections Include: "What Was I Made For?" by Billie Eilish; "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" by Johann Sebastian Bach; "Haunted Objects" by John Mackey; and "Mary Shelley Meets Frankenstein" by Erika Svanoe
Irondale H.S., MN
New Brighton, MN
Director(s): CJ Longabaugh
Drum Major(s): Anessa Williams, Karina Benito Sicora, and James Jang
Repertoire: After Hours
Musical Selections Include: "Kopi Luwak" by Alan Ferber; "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy; "The Triumph of Time" by Peter Graham; and "Ciudades, Movement III: Addis Ababa" by Guillermo Lago
Mankato East and Mankato West H.S., MN
Mankato, MN
Director(s): Brady Krusemark
Drum Major(s): Amelia Wayne and Leila Pratt
Repertoire: The Uninvited
Musical Selections Include: "Uninvited" by Alanis Morissette; "Arno's Waltz" by Joshua Aalampour; "Empyrean Mercenaries" by Jeffrey Fayman, Yoav Goren; and "Prelude from Psycho" by Bernard Herrmann
Pella H.S., IA
Pella, IA
Director(s): Dameon Place and Jeff Robilliard
Drum Major(s): Josie Boll, Leah Boualavong, Ben O'Halloran, and Sibley Rhoten
Repertoire: To Hold Back the Sea
Musical Selections Include: "To Hold Back the Sea" by Various
Plainfield Central H.S., IL
Plainfield, IL
Director(s): Chris Vanderwall
Drum Major(s): Maggie Proulx*, Connor Paquette, and London Marino*
Repertoire: The Girl in Red
Musical Selections Include: "Bury a Friend" by Billie Eilish
*Drum Major attended the 2025 Bands of America Summer Camp
Camdenton H.S., MO
Camdenton, MO
Director(s): Dominic Zanaboni
Drum Major(s): Hana Brown and Alex Freeman
Repertoire: Fantasy
Musical Selections Include: "Ritual Fire Dance" by Manuel De Falla; "Spanish Fantasy" by Chick Corea; "Red Cape Tango" by Michael Daugherty; and "Danzon No.2" by Arturo Marquez
Millard West H.S., NE
Omaha, NE
Director(s): John Keith
Drum Major(s): AJ Brubaker and Liam Dougherty
Repertoire: Electric Sunrise
Musical Selections Include: "Color Wheel" by Arch Echo; "Electric Counterpoint" by Steve Reich; "Here Comes the Sun" by George Harrison; "Hymn to the Sun With the Beat of Mother Earth" by Satoshi Yagisawa; and "Birth of the Sun" by Marina Baranova
Davenport Central H.S., IA
Davenport, IA
Director(s): Alexander Wilga and David Nicholson
Drum Major(s): Maya Gibson, Emily Gott, Micah Roldan, and Maddox Smith
Repertoire: Poor Unfortunate Souls
Musical Selections Include: "Writing’s on the Wall(From James Bond: Spectre)" by James Napier and Sam Smith; "Poor Unfortunate Souls" by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken; "Danse Macabre" by Camille Saint-Saens; and "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish O’Connell and Finneas Baird O’Connell
Oakville H.S., MO
Saint Louis, MO
Director(s): Vance Brakefield
Drum Major(s): Mary Wilson, Kennedy Koziacki, and Carter Oetting
Repertoire: With These Words
Musical Selections Include: "Writing's On The Wall" by Sam Smith; "Symphonic Metamorphosis" by Paul Hindemith; "The Typewriter" by Leroy Anderson; and "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Centennial H.S., IA
Ankeny, IA
Director(s): Scott Hook, Brogan Kearney, and Janelle Hook
Drum Major(s): Iliana Aponte, Carter Bentley, Camryn Johnson, and Ethan Quinn
Repertoire: Vincent
Musical Selections Include: "Self Portrait of the Artist" by Forte; "Starry Night" by Mclean; and "Sunflowers" by Zdechlik
Grain Valley H.S., MO
Grain Valley, MO
Director(s): Andrew Messerli
Drum Major(s): Tay Bailey*, Dylan Marquis*, and Willow Piedimonte*
Repertoire: GrooVe
Musical Selections Include: "Un Detective" by Alfredo Buongusto; "What the World Needs Now is Love" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David; and "Let it Be" by Paul McCartney and John Lennon
*Drum Major attended the 2025 Bands of America Summer Camp
Brandon Valley H.S., SD
Brandon, SD
Director(s): Tyler Nettestad
Drum Major(s): Bella Reif, Ruth Hunde, Ava Bunkers, and Julia Mumm
Repertoire: Against The Grain
Musical Selections Include: "Norwegian Wood" by The Beatles; "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by Johnny Cash; "Pines Of Rome" by Ottorino Respighi; and "Finlandia" by Jean Sibelius
Gretna H.S., NE
Gretna, NE
Director(s): Alexander Woodside
Drum Major(s): Grant Barnes, Charlotte Cullison, and Layne Winnicki
Repertoire: Echoes of the Deep
Musical Selections Include: "Temen Oblak" by Christopher Tin; "Wine-Dark Sea: Symphony for Band" by John Mackey; and "The Abyss" Alan Silvestri
Rockwood Summit H.S., MO
Fenton, MO
Director(s): Daniel Pace
Drum Major(s): Ava Proctor and Marissa Swanick
Repertoire: Luxe
Musical Selections Include: "Diamonds & Dancefloors" by Ava Max; "Palladio" by Karl Jenkins; "Flying Jewels" by James Michael David; "Gold Dust" by Arch Echo; and "Diamonds are Forever (Main Title)" by John Barry, Don Black
Rock Island H.S., IL
Rock Island, IL
Director(s): Peter Carlin
Drum Major(s): Layla Campbell, Myaels Hoffeditz, and Chase Coussens
Repertoire: "Heartless"
Musical Selections Include: "Her" by JVKE; "The Night We Met" by Lord Huron; "Wonderland" by T. Swift; and "Dance of the Nights" by Prokofiev
Belleville East H.S., IL
Belleville, IL
Director(s): Mark Tessereau and Timothy Hassall
Drum Major(s): Kaden Owens, Jonas Wittlich, and Zoe Peters
Repertoire: Bubbly
Musical Selections Include: "Pines of Rome" by Ottorino Respighi; "The Moldau" by Bedrich Smetana; "Feelin' Good" by Anthony Newly and Leslie Bricussericu; "Bundle of Joy" by Michael Giacchino; and "Bubbly" by Colby Callait
Mitchell H.S., SD
Mitchell, SD
Director(s): Joel Van Peursem
Drum Major(s): Emma Plamp and Natasha Foster
Repertoire: Desperado
Musical Selections Include: "Desperado" by Fred Emory Smith and John Mapes
Rosemount H.S., MN
Rosemount, MN
Director(s): Leon Sieve, Taylor Eliason, Scott Palmer, and Calvin Lipetzky
Drum Major(s): Isabella Dahling*, Ayla Firchow*, Greyson Hurley*, and Ari Paitich*
Repertoire: Rhapsody
Musical Selections Include: "The Music of George Gershwin" by DO NOT LIST
*Drum Major attended the 2025 Bands of America Summer Camp
Northwest H.S., IA
Waukee, IA
Director(s): Chad Friesleben
Drum Major(s): Avaree McQuistan, Evan Richtsmeier, Abi Steenhard, and Max Ziegemeier
Repertoire: Wanted: Dead or Alive
Musical Selections Include: "The Mandalorian" by Ludwig Goransson; "The Good, the Band, and the Ugly" by Ennio Morricone; "William Tell Overture" by Giacomo Rossini; "Hurt" by Johnny Cash; "My Body Is a Cage" by Peter Gabriel; "Freebird" by Lynrd Skynrd; and "Old Town Road" by Lil Nas X
Bellevue East H.S., NE
Bellevue, NE
Director(s): Jeremy Krug and Kaitlyn Keck
Drum Major(s): Liliahna Lusk*, MacKenzie Clark*, and Omarian Davis*
Repertoire: Bells and Whistles
Musical Selections Include: "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Lars Ulrich; "Carol of the Bells" by Mykola Leontovich; "The Breakfast Machine" by Danny Elfman; "Gymnopedie No. 1" by Erik Satie; and "The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition" by Modest Mussorgsky
*Drum Major attended the 2025 Bands of America Summer Camp
Papillion-La Vista South H.S., NE
Papillion, NE
Director(s): Matthew Rom
Drum Major(s): Jackson Baker, Jenna McVicker, Annaliese Bruce, and Brooklyn Prauner
Repertoire: Neon Cowboy
Musical Selections Include: "Save Me" by Jason Bradley de Ford, David Ray Stevens; "Texas Hold'Em" by Beyonce Knowles, Raphael Saadiq; "Neon Cowboy" by Starletta; "The Ecstasy of Gold" by Ennio Morricone; "Wild Nights" by Frank Ticheli; and "Tank" by Yoko Kanno
Lindbergh H.S., MO
Saint Louis, MO
Director(s): David Wyss
Drum Major(s): Raphael del Rosario, Mira Wissel, and Briley McKenney
Repertoire: Why So Serious?
Musical Selections Include: "Smile" by Nedy John Cross; "Bad Romance" by Nadir Khayat, Stefani J Germanota; and "Mad World" by Roland Orzabal
Naperville Central H.S., IL
Naperville, IL
Director(s): Brandon Estes
Drum Major(s): Adelaide Sedore, Carter Golk, Deb Dash, and Will Zigterman
Repertoire: Seek & Find
Musical Selections Include: "Mvt. 3 - Discover" by Ian Grom & John Mapes; "Mvt. 1 - Dream" by Ian Grom & John Mapes; and "Mvt. 2 - Explore" by Ian Grom & John Mapes
MOC-Floyd Valley H.S., IA
Orange City, IA
Director(s): Dan Mangold and Matt Honken
Drum Major(s): Max Koenig*, Autumn Anderson, and Mady Stanislav
Repertoire: Joke's On You
Musical Selections Include: "The Joker and the Thief" by Myles Heskett, Andrew Stockdale, and Christopher Ross; "Marcotus (from 'Batman Begins')" by James Newton Howard and Hans Zimmer; "Criminal" by Fiona Apple Maggart; and "Symphony No. 4, 'Heroes': VI. V2 Schneider" by Philip Glass
*Drum Major attended the 2025 Bands of America Summer Camp
Grand Rapids H.S., MN
Grand Rapids, MN
Director(s): Dale Gunderson
Drum Major(s): Aaron McMullen, Andrew Keating, and Jocelyn Jepson
Repertoire: Between the Lines
Musical Selections Include: "Channel One Suite" by Bill Reddie; "Birdland" by Joe Zawinul; and "A Time for Love" by Johnny Mandel