Mr. Hartsuiker
Richard Hartsuiker
Associate Director of Bands
Brass Specialist
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Richard Hartsuiker is the Associate Director of Bands and Brass Specialist at Roxbury High School in Succasunna, New Jersey. His responsibilities include directing the Symphony Band, assistant directing the Wind Symphony and Ninth Symphony, teaching grades six through twelve brass lessons, teaching the course elective AP Music Theory, directing the Jazz Lab Band, directing the Pit Orchestra, and he is the associate director and guard advisor of the Marching Band. Mr. Hartsuiker created a brass ensembles program that includes traditional brass quintets, larger brass ensembles, and other student-run groups. He has also served on the National Honor Society Faculty Council. While at Roxbury, Mr. Hartsuiker has proudly worked in clinic and concert with guest conductors and artists such as Allen Vizzutti, Dr. Mark Scatterday, Richard Crain, Dennis Fisher, Dr. Andrew Boysen, Jr., the Boston Brass, Dr. John Whitwell, Fred Mills, Dr. Brad Genevro, Bruce Yurko, Dr. John Stanley Ross, and Dr. Stanley Saunders.Mr. Hartsuiker is currently pursuing a Masters of Music degree in Wind Band Conducting at Messiah College, where he has studied conducting with Dr. Bradley Genevro and Eugene Migliaro Coroporon. A 2000 honors graduate from William Paterson University, Mr. Hartsuiker received the university’s 2000 Outstanding Senior Classical Musician Award and the 1999 New York Brass Conference Bobby Shew Scholarship Award. He has studied trumpet with Dr. Joel Craig Davis, Kurt Zimmermann, Chris Jaudes, Roger Ingram, and Garth Greenup, and has participated in master classes given by the Boston Brass, Fred Mills, and Wynton Marsalis. Additionally, Mr. Hartsuiker has taken voiceover lessons and clinics with professional voiceover artists Lainie Cooke and Sara Krieger.Mr. Hartsuiker had the privilege to conduct the Wind Symphony and Concert Band Gold at Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center in 2001, as well as the Wind Symphony at Carnegie Hall in 2004. He has served as the New Jersey Region I Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band Manager, and has adjudicated the NJMEA Middle School Band Festival. Mr. Hartsuiker continues to maintain an active freelance-performing career in the New York Metropolitan area as a soloist and member of various brass chamber groups, and manages a successful trumpet studio for players of all ability levels. In addition, he has assisted in the drill design for award-winning marching bands in the Bands Of America, United States Scholastic Band Association, and Tournament Of Bands circuits. Mr. Hartsuiker is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers and his professional affiliations include the Music Educator’s National Conference, the New Jersey Music Educator’s Association, the National Band Association, and the International Trumpet Guild. Mr. Hartsuiker is happily married to his wife Michelle and is the proud father of three wonderful sons.
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