VIRTUAL MARCHING BAND PERFORMANCE CURRICULUM
MAESTRO’S DREAM
An all-inclusive solution for directors seeking to create a unique performance opportunity for their students.
Ready-for-you performance
Maestro’s Dream is a unique production created to help marching bands continue learning and performing during COVID-19. Each element was expertly crafted by top designers and is free to license for a virtual marching band performance with Keep Making Music.
Maestro’s Dream includes:
Winds and Percussion Music
Wind Scores, Percussion Scores, beautifully-formated parts, .MP3’s, and Click Track to faciliate seamless learning.
Band Choreography
Get your band moving with exciting and achieveable choreography taught through a series of video tutorials.
Color Guard Choreography
Musically-Crafted choreography and equipment work for your colorguard, taught step-by-step by a master educator.
Repertoire
All source material was chosen from the public domain and reworked into a modern setting through pulse, feel, reharmonization, or surprise “twists.” Repertoire is designed to get easier the further it goes to ensure that directors have the appropriate time to achieve at a high level.
The Carnival of the Animals
Camille Saint-Saëns
Swan Lake
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
Johann Sebastian Bach
Habanera
Georges Bizet
Magic Flute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Lullaby
Johannes Brahms
Dies Irae
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ode to Joy
Ludwig van Beethoven
Sample Score
Wind Package Highlights
- Wide variety of high quality music written to be exciting and engaging for students
- Flexibly scoring allowing for multiple solos across all instruments
- Constructed and paced for easily identifiable modules and units in the classroom setting
- Public domain music requiring now licencing for recording or video production
- Programmatic in nature so students always feel they are working on a production
Powerful visuals
Band Body
Band body crafted in a way that your students will learn and master valuable skills while keeping them physically active.
- Designed for all levels
- Written with virtual “general effect” in mind
- Transferrable to the field for in person use
- Building blocks for teaching students basic vocabulary
- Descriptions and demos
- Opportunities for facial gestures
- Modifiable for your program
Color Guard Choreography
Color guard choreography that gives your performers achievable routines to be performed as-is or used as a foundation for more complex work.
- Designed for all levels
- Driven by Visual Musicality
- Fully incorporates lower body qualities
- Vocabulary infused Videos
- Count by Count Breakdown of each phrase
- Includes Flag, Rifle, and Dance portions
- Stylistically varied to offer a variety of performance qualities
- Easily modified/customizable to your program
Virtual Performance
Easy Instructions
Performers are given step-by-step instructions on how to easily record and submit their audio and video, which makes virtual music-making fun.
Refined Audio
Every submission will be analyzed, edited, and mastered to sound as clean, full, and exciting as possible.
Eye-Catching Video
Close-Ups, Section Shots, and Multi-Cams, Oh My! Every video is given a unique look to help tell your musical story.
Fast Turnaround
Our current turnaround time is around 10 days after receiving your submissions and we also have express turnaround options available, too!
Every virtual performance includes
Click Track & Reference Audio
Performer Audio Instructions
Performer Video Instructions
Edited and Mastered Audio
Performance Video
Custom Video Thumbnail Graphic
Design Team
Reid Atkinson
Wind Arranger
Hector Gil
Percussion Designer
Zach Santos
Band Choreography
Erin Kosman
Color Guard Designer
Maestro's Dream
only music and visual materials- Wind score and parts
- Percussion score and parts
- Band body videos
- Color guard choreography videos
- Concept sheet
- Virtual performance
- Performance curriculum
Maestro's Dream
when purchasing a virtual performance- Virtual performance
- Performance curriculum
- Wind score and parts
- Percussion score and parts
- Band body videos
- Color guard choreography videos
- Concept sheet
Reid Atkinson is a band director, designer, and clinician from Leander, Texas. He serves as the Marching Director at Vista Ridge High School. In addition to overseeing the marching program, his teaching responsibilities include conducting the Wind Symphony and coordinating the student leadership program. Since his appointment at Vista Ridge, the Ranger Band has continued its long history of success. Notable highlights include being named the 2018 UIL 6A State Champions as well as finalists at BOA Austin and medaling at the San Antonio Super Regional. Reid also serves as program coordinator, artistic director, or winds arranger for several schools in Texas, Missouri, New Mexico, and more.
During the summers, Reid serves as a leadership facilitator with the SASi Leadership Company where he presents leadership training to students across the country. Mr. Atkinson also serves as a member of the Ultimate Drill Book Education team and has presented clinics on their behalf at the Texas Bandmasters Association and Missouri Bandmasters Association annual conventions.
Mr. Atkinson resides in Leander, Texas with his wife Alison, daughter Ainsley and son Paxton.
Zach Santos is a music educator from Austin, Texas. Zach graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and is currently in his third year of teaching at Vista Ridge High School. He has been on the visual staff for Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps, Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, the Brass staff of the Boston Crusaders, and consulted for the Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps.
Zach has written choreography for multiple programs in the state of Texas and is excited to share this project with the music education world.
Erin Kosman is a color guard director, choreographer, and technician originally from NJ. She began her performing arts career at the young age of four as a baton twirler. Her marching career spans more than a decade and includes the Crossmen, Phantom Regiment, and Black Watch Winter Guard. In her 16 years as a color guard educator, Erin has worked with students at all ability levels of the marching arts. Some highlights include Black Watch, Jersey Surf, United Percussion, Spirit of Atlanta, and Phantom Regiment.
Erin also holds a Bachelors of the Arts in Education and specializes in teaching middle school math. Currently, she resides just outside of Austin, TX and is the color guard director for Vista Ridge High School. Erin is thankful for this opportunity to share her talents and offer color guard choreography to your program!