Robin Plante

     Band/Musical Director

Martha McClary

     Assistant Director

 Martha’s marching music career took flight in 1999 with her enrolment in the Calgary Round-Up band. Although it was the prospect of traveling to Australia that initially intrigued Martha into joining the Calgary Round-Up Band, her love and passion of music and marching has kept Martha in the activity for just over a decade.

Sam Todd

     Colour Guard Instructor

Sam has been involved in marching band since 1995, when she started with the Regina Lions Jr. Band. After 11 years, she says her favorite memory is travelling the world. Originally on clarinet, she's now in love with colourguard. Sam is very excited to share her first year teaching where her passion for guard started.

Jill Hancock

     Colour Guard Instructor

Jill Hancock has been involved with the Bands of Calgary for the past 14 years. She spent 2 years in the Round-Up Band colour guard, 1 year in the Stetson Band colour guard, 6 amazing years in the Stampede Showband colour guard and finally 5 years in Escalade winter guard.
This is Jill’s fourth year teaching with the Round-Up Band. Previously has taught with the Bishop Grandin Marching Ghosts for 5 years. Jill has travelled all over the world with the Bands of Calgary. She has gone to places such as Alberta, England, France, Holland, Portland, Chicago, Denver,Las Vegas (multiple times), Halifax (twice) and Pasadena California.

Jill has received her Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of General Studies with a minor in  Psychology from the University of Calgary and is now teaching with the Calgary Board of Education.

Laura Mackinnon

     Colour Guard Instructor

Brynn Morgan

     Colour Guard Instructor

Brynn found out about the Bands of Calgary as a result of her sister and has marched with the Calgary Round-Up Band, Calgary Stetson Showband, as well as the Calgary Stampede Show Band. During her seven years with the Bands of Calgary she has travelled to Seattle, Chicago, Germany, Austria, Holland, England, British Columbia, and various spots around Alberta.  

Brynn's favorite things about being in the Bands of Calgary are travelling and performing and her favorite band memory is performing at the WMC AND WAMSB World Championships in Kerkrade, Holland.  In her spare time she likes to hang out with friends and if Brynn could be any superhero she would choose to be Elastigirl.  Brynn is currently attending the University of Calgary majoring in Psychology.

Vanessa Raby

     Woodwind Coordinator

Vanessa's dad was a member of the Stampede Showband, and ever since Vanessa was young, she loved watching the bands in the parade. This is her twelfth year involved in the bands of Calgary. Vanessa has had many opportunities with the bands, including playing at the Sydney opera house, Buckingham Palace, and Vimy Ridge.

Kristin Ionn

     Flute Instructor

Kayla Howatt

     Clarinet Instructor

Dustin Stirling

     Saxophone Instructor/Drum Major Instructor

Dustin Stirling began his marching band career in 1999 when he joined the Irricana Pioneer Drum Corps. He marched with this group for 3 years playing trumpet, bugle, cymbals, and bass drum. He then took up alto saxophone in 2000. He joined the Calgary Round-Up Band in 2001-2002 playing alto saxophone his first year, then was a co-head drum major his second year. He then joined the Calgary Stetson Show Band as an alto sax player and assistant drum major his first year, and head drum major his second year.

This is Dustin's first year teaching with the Round-Up Band and is enjoying every moment teaching the woodwinds and helping out the Drum Major team. Dustin is currently in his second year with the Calgary Stampede Showband playing alto saxophone and is a member of the drum major team, and is also in his second year with the Stampede Showband Saxophone Choir.

Dustin is taking music at the University of Calgary (B.Mus, and B.Ed) and has performed with the University Symphonic Band under the direction of Mr. Gareth Jones, University Big Band, University Saxophone Quartet, University Saxophone Choir, and the University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Glenn Price. Dustin also performs solo material as well.

Dustin has had the pleasure of traveling to Seattle, Vancouver, Victoria, Regina, Montreal, Ottawa, England, Austria, and Germany with various performing groups. Dustin has also had the pleasure of meeting and working with some of the biggest names in saxophone such as Nobuya Sugawa, Otis Murphy, and Kirk Macdonald.

Steve Mcneilly

     Saxophone Instructor

Steve would like everyone to know of his affection for pie and sushi. Among being tastefully inclined, he's a hard working student, musician, and lab technician (A.K.A. learning-musical-evil scientist.) He can sort of play the harmonica, and saxophone on good days. We'd also like to note that one of Steve's fondest band memories, is sandwiches.

Jesse Sturk

     Percussion Coordinator

Alex Leslie

     Percussion Instructor

Alex has been involved with the Bands of Calgary for the past 5 years.  He marched with the Calgary Round-Up Band for three years beginning in the 2004/2005 season as a percussionist and was a co-head drum major for the 2006/2007 season.  He spent one year marching with the Calgary Stetson Show Band and is in his second year as a member of the Calgary Stampede Showband.  He has travelled around the world with these three groups including the USA, Sweden, Denmark, Holland, Germany, England, France, and Malaysia.  His favorite band memory is performing in front of thousands of people at WMC and WAMSB finals in Kerkrade, Holland during the summer of 2009. 

In his spare time Alex enjoys photography, watching movies, and long walks on the beach.  If he could be any superhero he would choose to be Ironman even though technically Ironman is a normal person in a supersuit.  Alex is in his first year at the University of Calgary majoring in music education and this is his first year teaching with the Calgary Round-Up Band.

Nick Warshawski

     Front Ensemble Instructor

Aaron Park

     Brass Coordinator

Aaron first joined CRUB in 1999 when he heard from friends that it was awesome.

Christine Macnab

      Trumpet Instructor

Tanis Fioritti 

      French Horn Instructor

 Tanis became involved with the Bands of Calgary when she joined the Calgary Stampede Showband in the 2004/2005 season after spending three years marching with the Bishop Grandin Marching Ghosts.  This is her first year teaching with the Calgary Round-Up Band but has been teaching marching, music, and the drum major team at Bishop Grandin.  Her time involved with the Calgary marching community has allowed her to travel to places such as Ireland, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, and France.  While most of her spare time is spent playing mellophone in the Bands of Calgary or singing in Cum Vino Cantus choir she does enjoy knitting scarves and reading mystery novels.  If Tanis could be any superhero she would choose to be Captain Planet simply because he can fly and is making the world a better place.

Tanis graduated this past spring with a BSc. in Psychology from the University of Calgary and is currently studying to obtain her MEd. so that she can become a music teacher.

 Meaghan Bailey

     Euphonium Instructor

Meaghan Bailey started marching with the Calgary Round-Up Band in 2001 and has since spent three years with Round-Up, one with the Calgary Stetson Show Band, and five years with the Calgary Stampede Showband. Over her nine years with the Bands of Calgary she has travelled to California, Quebec, British Columbia, Seattle, England, Chicago, Germany, Austria, Portland, and the Netherlands.  Outside of band Meaghan loves to knit and bake.  This is her third year teaching with the Calgary Round-Up Band.

Dave Boutette

     Tuba Instructor

Tammy Pfob

     Executive Director

Tammy Pfob was born and raised in Calgary, Alberta. Tammy completed her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Dance Studies at the University of Calgary. In September 2000, Tammy moved to London, England where she completed her Master of Arts Degree in Dance Studies (Dance Education and Visual Design) at the Laban Centre London.

Tammy has taught many local groups including: Central Memorial High School, Round-Up Band, Stetson Show Band, Red Deer Royals and the Stampede Showband. She began with the Stampede Showband in 1988, and spent five years as a performing member. She then performed for two years with Outriders, and spent six years as a Colour Guard staff member before leaving Calgary. During her employment with all these groups, Tammy has toured many countries including: Australia, New Zealand, Japan, England, Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United States with the Marching Bands. She also had the opportunity to take various Winter Guards to competitions in Las Vegas, Nevada, Seattle and Vancouver, Washington and Portland, Oregon. Tammy's work has been performed at Dance Explosions (for Alberta Choreographers), Dance Montage, Summer Dance and Mainstage, and all four Disneyland and Disney World Parks in the USA, France and Japan. This year she has also taken on the role of Executive Director for the Calgary Round Up Band.

Following her time spent in England, Tammy moved to Chicago where she taught several surrounding area Colour Guards and Winter Guards. During the three years living in the Midwest, she had the pleasure of teaching many groups of students including: McHenry High School and Winter Guard (McHenry), Lemont HS (Lemont), Central Middle School (Tinley Park), Loyola Academy (Wilmette), Providence Catholic HS (New Lenox), Oswego High School (Oswego), Naperville North HS (Naperville) Downers Grove South HS (Downers Grove) Wheaton North HS (Wheaton) and Northwestern University (Evanston). In addition to teaching Colour Guard, Tammy has also choreographed for high school musicals, including the productions of Oklahoma!, The King and I and Cole Porter™'s Anything Goes.

Danielle Harvey

     Administrative Assistant

Danielle's journey with the Bands of Calgary began in the 2006-2007 season, when she became a member of the Calgary Stampede Showband. This year is Danielle's 5th year in marching band. Previously, she was been a member of both the Bishop Grandin Marching Ghosts and Allegiance Elite Drum and Bugle Corps. Currently Danielle is enrolled at the University of Calgary in the music faculty.