Director:

Marcus Pimpleton

 

Marcus J. Pimpleton has been the director of the All-City Marching Band since the winter of 2003. This summer will be his seventeenth consecutive year as a part of the All-City Band family, having previously served one year as assistant director, five years as drum major staff, and five years as a member of the trombone and drum major sections.

 

Mr. Pimpleton received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees in August of 2002 from the University of Washington. While at the University, Mr. Pimpleton served three years as drum major of the nationally renowned Husky Marching Band and as president of the Gamma Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity. In his role as Husky Drum Major, Mr. Pimpleton led the band in performances at the 2001 Rose Bowl and Rose Bowl Parade and in performances in an historic 2001 tour of China. He also had the opportunity to teach a signal baton showmanship class at the Smith Walbridge Drum Major Clinic at the University of Illinois, where he earned the commission of "Drum Major First Class."

 

In the time between All-City Summers, Mr. Pimpleton serves as music director and activity coordinator at Denny Middle School and teaches a steel drum class for students at Chief Sealth High School. He is a licensed youth minister at Zion United House of Prayer in Seattle's central district, and he is the founding director of the Federal Way All-City Marching Band. If that were not enough, he is currently in the process of developing a junior "All-City" Band for middle school students in West Seattle and is in the process of earning a Master's of Theology from the AL Hardy Academy.

 

When he gets a break from teaching, you are most likely to find him napping or playing spades or dominoes with friends.