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Shawn Kelley is a teacher, composer, and performing artist currently serving the community of Cherry Creek Charter Academy as 2-8 Director of Bands and General Music. Prior to his appointment at CCA, Mr. Kelley attracted regional curiosity when he was selected as K-12 Director of Bands and General Music for Manzanola School District 3J where, in his first year of tutelage, he doubled the size of the junior-senior high school band program, retained every sixth-grade student who participated in the year prior to his arrival, recruited 100% of the fifth-grade class for participation in band, and increased clinic ratings for the first time in seven years. He has also assisted several nationally and internationally renowned band programs in adjunct faculty and student teaching capacities, including the award-winning Dobyns-Bennett High School Marching Band in preparation for successful competitive performances at the 2008 Bands of America Grand Nationals Marching Band Competition and the nationallyrecognized Maryville Intermediate School Wind Ensemble before premiering as the first ever sixth-grade band to perform at the invitation-only Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. While completing undergraduate study, Mr. Kelley served as Assistant Director of Bands for the Episcopal School of Knoxville as well as private instructor and marching band field technician for numerous public secondary schools in the eastern region of Tennessee. As an artist, Mr. Kelley currently performs with the Cathedral Brass Quintet in professional musical engagements throughout the Front Range of Colorado. He has enjoyed copious professional performance opportunities, including appearances with Grammy Award winner Doc Severinsen, the Charlie Daniels Band, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, the Knoxville Wind Symphony, the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass Band, the University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble, and the University of Tennessee’s prestigious “Pride of the Southland” Marching Band, with whom he performed for former President George W. Bush in his second inaugural parade, the Irish public in Dublin’s official Saint Patrick’s Day Parade, and hundreds of thousands of fans at numerous NCAA sporting events throughout the country. Praised in peer reviews for employing “ingenious compositional techniques,” Mr. Kelley’s original works have begun to attract attention as well, having been performed throughout the United States and Europe. His piece Urban Suite, published by Cimarron Press and premiered by faculty at the Eastman School of Music, was selected for use in the 2010 International Tuba and Euphonium Conference Quartet Competition and was a finalist for the 2010 Harvey Phillips Award for Excellence in Composition, an internationally-recognized honor for composers of new music for tuba and euphonium bestowed by the International Tuba and Euphonium Association. Urban Suite is also featured in a new recording production by the Eufonix Quartet entitled Brink. Shawn Kelley graduated summa cum laude from the University of Tennessee with a Bachelor of Music in Music Education. He enjoys spending time with his family, hiking, cooking, photography, soundboard operation, reading, sports, and exercising his German-language skills with gracious fluent members of the CCA community.