Craig Haukebo
Director Instrumental Music, Coral Glades HS
2010 - Present
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Craig Haukebo, a native of Colorado, grew up in Fort Collins and received a Bachelors degree from
the University of Colorado at Boulder. He recently completed his Master's degree at the VanderCook College of Music in Chicago.
Prior to coming to Coral Glades in January 2010, Craig worked for nearly five years in a socio-economically impacted area of Jefferson County, Colorado, serving as band
and orchestra instructor at five elementary schools and O'Connell Middle School. Over the years, he has also worked with a number of high school programs throughout
Colorado including marching, musical theater, chamber and concert ensembles.
In addition to teaching, Craig has continued to expand his musical skill set. During the past five seasons, he has studied wind conducting and repertoire, as well as
performed with the Colorado Wind Ensemble on piano, saxophone and percussion. Part of a musical family, Craig gives the greatest musical credit to his sister, who is
currently completing her Performer's Diploma at the Indiana University School of Music in oboe performance.
Craig understands the value and rarity of individuals and organizations devoted to supporting the arts in education. His observation upon joining the Coral Glades
High School music program was that he has never experienced such strong support for the arts from parents and administration.
"Bravo" to each of you for supporting a program that provides such important musical, leadership, and social opportunities to our students!
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Marcus Rankin
Director, Color Guard/ Winter Guard
2009 - Present
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Marcus was introduced to color guard in his sophomore year of high school. His first color guard marching
experience was with Extraordinaire winter guard from Philadelphia, PA. In the two years he marched there, Extraordinaire made Independent A Class WGI finalist in 1995 and 1996.
In 1996 he moved to Florida to become a member of the Independent World Class color guard The Shaktai Performance Company. He marched there from 1997 to 1999. He also became a member
of the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corp and marched in the summers of 1997 and 1998.
In 1999 Marcus decided to move to Orlando where he choreographed for University High School
color guard from 2000-2002. He also began teaching Paradigm an Independent A Class color guard from Lake City, Florida. He taught there from 2001-2004. Paradigm was 2001 WGI Independent A
Class finalist, the 2002 Independent WGI Independent A Class silver medalist, 2003 Independent WGI Open Class bronze medalist, and 2004 Independent World Class finalist. His next
experience teaching would be as a choreographer for The Knights winter guard in Orlando, FL from 2005-2009. The Knights were the 2005 WGI Independent Open class bronze medalist, 2006,
2008, 2009 WGI World Class finalist. Marcus has recently become a staff member of the 2009 WGI Independent World Class finalists, Premonition. He has also choreographed for West Boca
High School, Lake Howell High School, Lake Mary High School, Countryside High School, Taravella High School, Stoneman Douglas High School, and Coral Springs High School.
Marcus is currently a full time student at Nova Southeastern University as a Legal Studies major with a minor in International Studies. He is excited to make the Coral Glades Music
program his home away from home.
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Mike Thomas
Director, Percussion
Present
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Mike has been an active member in the marching percussion industry since 1998. He had the opportunity
to march and teach some of the greatest ensembles in the country. Mike has instructed with, or marched under clinicians including Colin Mcnutt, Mike Mcintosh, Brett Kuhn, Brian Tinkle,
Lee Beddis, Tim Fairbanks, Rudy Garcia and Chris Hestin.
Mike has marched in world class ensembles including Glassmen 2001-2002, Cavaliers 2003 and Rhythm X 2004. After aging out from drum corps, Mike began instructing ensembles including
Crossmen 2004, Glassmen 2005-2006, Rhythm X 2005, and Centerville HS 2004-2006.
Outside of drumming, Mike manages a multi-million dollar portion of business for a nation wide fashion retailer. Mike is very excited to assume the percussion director position with
Coral Glades HS!
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Ryan Ross
Sr. Clinician, Percussion
Present
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Ryan comes to Coral Glades High School as a Front Ensemble Clinician for Percussion. He was born and raised in
Orange County, New York. After graduating from Monroe Woodbury High School in 2008, where he was Percussion section leader as well as President of the Wind Ensemble, Ryan moved down
to Florida to further his education. He attends Florida Atlantic University where he studies Music Education, and is the Percussion Section Leader for both the FAU Marching Owls, and
the Florida Atlantic University Wind Ensemble.
Ryan is also a member of Stryke Percussion Ensemble, a WGI silver medal winner for two consecutive years, marching on the cymbal line.
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Shasha Zhang
Clinician, Orchestra
2009 - Present
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Shasha has been studying violin since the age of 6. She received her Bachelor of Music in Violin Performance
from the prestigious Sichuan Conservatory of Music in China. In 1998, she received a full scholarship to study master classes with world-famous violin virtuosos Ruggerio Ricci in
Dartington, England, and with Kun Hu at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
Shasha is a regular member of several South Florida orchestras including the
Palm Beach Pops, Atlantic Classical Orchestra, and Treasure Coast Opera. She has appeared with the Long Island Symphony Orchestra, Palm Beach Opera,
Orlando Philharmonic and Flagler Symphony. Although she is a professional classical violinist, she is also adept at many different styles of music,
such as Irish, Rock and Country.
In 2002 Shasha spent several months touring nationally with "Gaelic Storm," the party band featured in the blockbuster movie "Titanic."
In various ensembles she has also performed with Sir James Galway, Mel Torme, Jack Jones, John Pizzarelli, Lena Horne, Vic Damone, Kenny Rogers, Diahann
Carroll, Cleo Lane, Maureen McGovern, Andrea Brocelli and many others. Active as a teacher, she has taught at Strings Camp international in Philadelphia and is
currently the strings consultant for high schools in South Florida, as well as maintaining a private studio, teaching violin.
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Katie Hernandez
Clinician, Guard
2010 - Present
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Katie is a local South Florida girl since birth. While attending Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
Florida, she was a member of the Guard from 2003-2007. In the summer of 2006 and 2007, she marched with Boston Crusaders, a drum and bugle corp out of Massachusetts. Locally she has
been a member of the 2010 and 2011 Premonition, an Independent Winter Guard Team located in Broward County. For the 2010 Team, she was Guard Captain. She has been a clinician with
Coral Glades High School Color & Winter Guard since 2010.
When not teaching choreography, hair and makeup to the Coral Glades Guard team, she is a medical assistant and Mary Kay Consultant.
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Michael Scarcella
Clinician, Visual & Brass
2010 - Present
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Michael marched Drum Corps in 2004, 2006, & 2007 with the Magic of Orlando, and in 2009 with The Cadets
playing Tuba. He currently is in his final semester at FAU working toward an undergraduate degree.
As for teaching in South Florida, Mike helped
out with his alma mater, Coral Springs High School, for two years after graduating. He was then at Stoneman Douglas for one of their summer band camps three years ago. For the past two
seasons he has been working with West Boca High School alongside Paula and Eddie.
Mike is excited to be working with Coral Glades!
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Jordan Sawyer
Sr. Clinician, Visual & Woodwind
Present
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Jordan comes to Coral Glades High School as a Marching Clinician in support of both Visual and Woodwinds.
He is an accomplished musician and is pursuing a career in music education. He has been a substitute teacher with Broward County schools and was the Interim Band Director at West Glades
Middle School in Parkland, Florida. He was a Clinician with Stoneman-Douglas High School, and was instrumental in improving the performance of the woodwinds to “Best Woodwinds” achievement
at Falcon Sound in 2010.
When not working with music students in the Broward schools, Jordan is a rep with All-County Music in Tamarac, Florida.
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Braulio Salhuana
Clinician, Visual & Brass
Present
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Braulio comes to Coral Glades as a Clinician for Visual and Brass. Braulio was born in Port Washington, New York
and graduated from West Boca High School in Boca Raton, Florida. He began his clinician experience as a visual tech with Stoneman Douglas High School in 2008. He spent 2 years with West
Boca High School as a visual tech in 2009 -2010.
For the past four summers he has marched with the Boston Crusaders, a highly regarded drum & bugle corps out of Massachusetts. He plays trumpet and is currently a business major student
at Florida Atlantic University.
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Alain Brodeur
Clinician, Percussion
Present
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Alain was born in Miami, Florida. He began his music career at the age of 5 learning how to play the piano.
In the 8th grade, he joined the Broward Symphonic Orchestra as a percussionist. Even though his high school did not have a band program, he joined an Independent percussion ensemble
called South Florida Percussion Company playing in the front ensemble. After that, Alain became a part of Stryke Percussion from 2005 to 2007. There he played bass drum, and after his
first season he became the section leader.
In 2006, he started marching drum corps with The Magic of Orlando playing bottom bass. When Alain graduated high school, he moved to Orlando and joined INFINITY Percussion, playing
bass drum and still the section leader from 2008 to 2010. In the summer of 2008, he played quads at Teal Sound and in 2009 he was Assistant Drum Major of the corps.
For his age out season, Alain was asked to march Red Line Percussion and play 3rd bass.
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Jerry Rusch
Alumni Clinician
Present
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Jerry graduated from Coral Glades High School in Spring 2011 where he was a member of the Marching Band and Indoor
Percussion for all 4 years. He was a Co-Captain for Marching Band Percussion and Indoor Percussion where he marched and led drumline. The Indoor Percussion team for 2011 won the Gold Medal
at the South Florida Indoor Percussion Championships and they lead the country for most of the season with the highest scores.
In the summer of 2011, Jerry was selected to march with the Boston Crusaders, a highly regarded Drum & Bugle Corps out of Massachusetts. He finished the season playing snare drum under
Ellis Hampton.
Jerry is currently a full-time student at Florida Atlantic University where he is majoring in engineering.
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