DAVID G. BOGGS
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Panther Marching Band Director/Assistant Director of Bands
Professor David G. Boggs is thrilled to continue in his 6th year with the EIU Music Department this fall! He directs the Panther Marching Band, Basketball Pep Bands, Eastern Symphonic Band, and teaches courses in Marching Band Techniques, Band Arranging and The Evolution of Jazz and Rock. In addition, he is the primary administrator of the Panther Marching Band Festival.
In the spring of 2019 David Boggs completed his 20th year as the Director of Athletic Bands at McKendree University in Lebanon, Illinois. He was the Director of the Marching Bearcat Band and Pep Bands, served as the Director of the Music in Our Schools Program, and coordinated many aspects of music student recruitment. He was one of the chief architects in designing the music education, music business and jazz performance degree programs. During his time there he pioneered the Young People’s Concerts (three different series of concerts, the Preview of Champions and Small Band Marching Band Festivals, the DCI St Louis Show, the Midwest Percussion Camp and Phantom Regiment Summer Music Camps as well multitude of other music education-based clinics, concerts and events.
Prior work experience includes serving as the Director of Bands at Rolling Meadows where he hosted the Jazz in the Meadows Jazz Festival and Newton High Schools (IL) as well as working at Indiana University (Associate Instructor) and Purdue University. In addition, Mr. Boggs has served as the Corps Director for the Music City Drum and Bugle Corps (2014 and 2015 seasons) and been on brass staff for The Cadets Drum and Bugle Corps (1990) and Music City Drum Corps (2013). Past marching experience included being a former marching member of The Cavaliers Drum Corps (1985). He was also a clinician for the Smith-Walbridge Drum Major Camp for ten years.
Mr. Boggs has presented clinics on topics such as presenting young people’s concerts, student recruitment at the collegiate level, and administering successful festivals and events at the CBDNA, ILMEA and IAJE conventions. He is an active concert and jazz adjudicator for Music in the Parks and other organizations. Mr. Boggs is also an active marching, concert and jazz adjudicator and clinician in the Midwest and Southeast area for Nottelmann Music Company located in St. Louis, Missouri.
CHEYENNE BRICKNER
Panther Marching Band Drumline
Cheyenne Brickner graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Music Performance. She was on the Panther Marching Band drumline for 4 years and a Graduate Assistant for 2 years.
For over a decade, Cheyenne has been a marching percussion instructor, visual technician, and clinician to 8 different schools across Illinois. She also works as a Percussion Assistant for Eastern Music Camp where she teaches masterclasses, sectionals, and the World Percussion class, and was the World Percussion Teaching Assistant at the International Music Camp in North Dakota.
Cheyenne is currently a professor at Lake Land College and the drumline instructor for Eastern Illinois' Panther Marching Band. She continues to be a freelance educator and performer in the Central Illinois area
KRISTIE FINLEY
Panther Marching Band Color Guard
Originally from the Chicago Suburbs, Kristie Finley started her colorguard career at Alan B. Shepard High school in Palos Heights. Kristie started as a coach at Worth Jr. High after high school in 2001. Kristie attended EIU in 2002 and marched with the Panther Marching Band and was the colorguard section leader her senior year. She was also in EIU’s winterguard, Blue Horizon, when she attended EIU.
After finishing her bachelors in Elementary Education degree and getting married to her husband, she started coaching at East Richland High School and the Panther Marching Band’s Colorguard in the 2008 and 2009 seasons. She continued to coach at East Richland until 2014. In the fall of 2015, she was hired at Newton Community High School to coach the Newton Marching Eagle Colorguard where she is still the head coach.
Kristie, along with Joshua, are the current coaches of EIU’s winterguard. Kristie resides in rural Jasper County Illinois with her husband Jeffrey and five daughters: Micah, Maura, Marleigh, Madden, and Mykelti. During the school year Kristie is the 5th - 8th Grade English teacher at St. Thomas the Apostle School in Newton and she is also the Assistant Director for the NCHS Theater program where she focuses on dance and lighting. She is currently enrolled at EIU for her Masters in Curriculum and Instruction and is slated to graduate Fall 2024.
JOSH MILLIMAN
Panther Marching Band Color Guard
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