The Conductors of the Diamond State Concert Band

Diamond State Concert Band

The Conductors


Co-Conductors
E-mail for our conductors: conductor at dscb.org*.
Robert Baronio has been a member of the band since 1994. He is currently the band director at Springer Middle School and the Assistant Marching Band Director for Brandywine High School. He is a graduate of Penn State University (BS) and has received his Masters Degree in Music Education from Southern Oregon University. He has performed throughout the United States, Canada and Europe with The Dallas Brass, Jay & the Americans, Bob Hope, Allen Vizzutti, Mike Vax, and Eddie Daniels. He also claims to be the World's Greatest Maynard Ferguson Fan and "Polka King."	Bob Baronio Bob wants you to be sure to notice that he's a Penn State kinda guy.

Fred Litcofsky has been serving as co-conductor since 2005. Fred, an oboist who's brave enough to carve his own reeds, is a school band director in New Castle, Delaware. (More information to follow.)

Trained as a classical flutist (flautist, if he's getting paid), Anton Romano joined the band in 1998 on euphonium. With a BS in Music Education from West Chester University, he is currently employed by the Kennett (PA) Consolidated School District, where he works as the band director at Kennett Middle School. He is also an assistant director for the Mt. Pleasant High School Marching Band	Anton Romano in action

On leave Although co-conductor Brian Drumbore will on occasion maintain that he is a world-famous bullfighter, he is actually the band director at Mt. Pleasant High School* in the Brandywine School District. A 1996 graduate of West Chester University with a BS in Music Education, he is now working on his MA in Music History. He joined the band in 1998, playing saxophone and clarinet, and has also been performing with Pastimes Music from Berwyn, PA, since 1994. *It is also worthy of note that the former DSCB president and webmaster is a graduate of Mt. Pleasant, though that was many, many years before Brian "El Torero" Drumbore arrived. (In fact, it was even before Brian was born!)	Brian Drumbore Please note that, on occasion, he thinks he's Ricardo Muti.

Conductor Emeritus Phil DeFranco became conductor of the band in 1991. A music teacher in the Brandywine School District for 27 years, he was a band director at Talley Middle School and Mt. Pleasant High School. After a stint as Coordinator for the Brandywine School District, he left the area in August 2002 to take a position as fine arts supervisor for a school district in Williamsville, NY. In addition to his teaching, he has been a member of the 553^rd Air Force Band of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard serving as Assistant Conductor and Administrative Manager. Recently he was selected as the Enlisted Program Manager for all of the Air National Guard Band Programs in the United States. He is a graduate of West Chester University (BS and MS).	Phil DeFranco

Conductor Emeritus Joe Naff, Conductor Emeritus, has been conducting the band since its inception. A former teacher in the Mt. Pleasant and Brandywine School Districts in Delaware, and with extensive playing, teaching and conducting experience in New York City and Ashville, NC, he is currently residing in Magnolia, DE. Now conducting the band part-time, he is a private studio teacher of French horn and Brass, Adjunct Professor of Music at Wesley College in Dover, DE, and a member of the Capital Brass in Dover.

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