The twirlers are freshman Hannah Kollmann of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and junior Morgan Miller of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. The drum majors for the 2015 marching band are senior Sarah Bigge of Bellevue, junior Emily Hoffman of Beatrice, senior Kayla Krueger of Lincoln and senior Patrick Luddy of Omaha. Rose Johnson is the administrative technician, Jan Deaton is the office associate, and Nolan Schmit is the "voice" of the band. Cory Davis is the percussion instructor and Ashlea Jurgens-Woitzel is the color guard instructor. Burgess, Bradley Nelsen and Melanie Settle. Other band staff members are graduate teaching assistants A. Carolyn Barber, Hixson-Lied Professor of Music, is director of bands. Bush is the assistant director of bands and assistant marching band director. Falcone, associate director of bands in the Glenn Korff School of Music, is the director of the Cornhusker Marching Band. Each band member passed two auditions to gain admittance to the group.Īnthony M. The rest are studying in more than 60 other degree programs across campus.
Twenty-five percent of the students are music majors. This year's band includes representatives from nearly every region of the country, however, 78 percent of the students are from Nebraska. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's 299-member Cornhusker Marching Band makes its 2015 debut Saturday at Memorial Stadium with pregame and halftime performances at Nebraska's football season opener against Brigham Young University.