Tennessee Tech Symphony Band on the compact disc entitled Slide Ride: Works for Solo Trombone and Band. Mr. Butler’s arrangement of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana was recently featured as the opening piece at the 2009 National Trumpet Competition at George Mason University. It was also the feature piece of the closing ceremony at the 2009 International Trumpet Guild Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Butler’s teaching experiences include working with several high school bands in Florida and Tennessee including his alma mater, Science Hill High School. Most recently, he was the Associate Director of Bands & Orchestra at Spruce Creek High School. He has also been teaching trumpet privately for the last seven years. Professionally, Mr. Butler has performed with the Johnson City Symphony, the Bryan Symphony, the Appalachian Brass Orchestra, and as a freelance trumpet performer.

He is affiliated with many professional organizations including the Florida Bandmasters Association, the Florida Orchestra Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, Mu Phi Epsilon, the College Band Director’s National Association, the National Band Association, the National Education Association, Kappa Delta Pi, and is also an honorary member of Tau Beta Sigma, a National Honorary Band Society.

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Jose Fernando Eslava, Associate Director of Bands Jose Eslava is a graduate of Rollins College (2008), where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Music and completed his Teaching Certification in Music K-12. In the Rollins College Music Department, Mr. Eslava focused on performance where he played Flute and Piccolo in the Rollins Flute, Jazz and Wind Ensemble; Bassoon in the Rollins Orchestra; he played Percussion in the Rollins Percussion Ensemble and he was an active Mellophone player in the Basketball Band. Mr. Eslava had the opportunity to perform on Flute and Piccolo in several concerts with the Bach Festival Orchestra in Winter Park and the Orlando Concert Band. In the summers of ‘06 – ’08 Mr. Eslava performed across the country competing with the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, where he marched Mellophone. Mr. Eslava’s teaching experiences include being the Woodwind Instructor for the Lake Howell Silver Regiment Marching Band every season from the fall of ’04 through ’08. He completed his senior internship at Lake Brantley High School in the Fall of 2008. At Lake Brantley Mr. Eslava worked with the Marching and Concert Bands, the Percussion Ensembles, and taught the AP Music Theory class. He also did some clinician work at Teague Middle school and Tuskawilla Middle School.

At Rollins, Mr. Eslava was affiliated with the Omicron Delta Kappa National Leadership Honor Society, The National Society of Collegiate Scholars, Pi Kappa Lambda Music Honor Society, and was one of the 2008 recipients of the Algernon Sydney Sullivan Scholar Award.

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