2015

Tribal

Beloved Staff member Retires

Faculty

Erik W. Harris, Director of Bands 1997-2015

Mr. Harris received the Bachelor’s Degree in Brass Performance from East Carolina University in 1997 and became the band director at Northern Nash High School the same year. He received National Board Certification in 2004. Originally from Nash County, Mr. Harris also graduated from Northern Nash High School in 1992.

The Northern Nash Band Program has received only superior ratings at all concert festivals since 2000. The Northern Nash Wind Ensemble has been a featured performing ensemble at the 2004 North Carolina Music Educator’s Association Conference, the 2006 University of South Carolina Band Clinic and was one of only 16 bands nationally invited to perform at the 2006 and 2010 Music For All National Concert Festival in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Northern Nash Wind Ensemble is the only ensemble from the state of North Carolina ever to perform twice at this prestigious event.

An active clinician and guest conductor, Mr. Harris has been the featured guest conductor at the University of South Carolina Summer Band Camp and East Carolina University Summer Band Camp. He has conducted the NC All-Eastern District Band, the NC Christian Schools All-State Band, as well as several All-County Honor Bands across North Carolina.

Mr. Harris was selected as the Nash-Rocky Mount Schools 2005-2006 Teacher of the Year as well as one of only sixteen Regional Finalists in the North Carolina Teacher of the Year competition. Additionally, Mr. Harris received the 2006 NC Bandmaster’s Eastern District Award of Excellence as well as a Citation of Excellence from the National Band Association.

Mr. Harris is a former marching member of The Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps having performed with the Cavaliers during the 1992 season helping to clinch the first DCI World Championship in the Corps’ history. Mr. Harris still maintains an active performing schedule as both a trombonist and euphoniumist with the Tar River Symphonic Band and the Englewood Baptist Church Orchestra. Additionally, he enjoys composing and arranging music for the Northern Nash Marching Band as well as various ensembles in North Carolina and Virginia.

Announcing

Kyler Zary, Director of Bands

Northern Nash High School is pleased to announce the new director of Bands Mr. Kyler Zary.

Mr. Zary attended East Carolina University starting in 2011 where he studied trumpet and music education. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in May 2015 and was awarded the Outstanding Senior Award of his graduating music class. Mr. Zary is a North Carolina Teaching Fellow, ECU Access scholar, and a member of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society and Phi Mu Alpha National Music Fraternity.

Mr. Zary served as the principal trumpet player in the ECU Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band and has performed with Symphony Orchestra, University Chorale, Men’s Choir, School of Theater and Dance Pit Orchestras, and the ECU Marching Pirates. During his time at ECU Mr. Zary founded a collegiate student organization that provided free private lessons to local area music students, wrote drill for the Marching Pirates as well as several other high school marching bands and actively performed with groups such as the Tar River Symphony and the New Carolina Sinfonia.

Mr. Zary completed his clinical internship at Red Oak Middle School and Northern Nash High school in the 2014-2015 school year and is excited to have the opportunity to continue working with those same students as the director of bands at Northern Nash High School.

2015 Show

The 2015 Northern Nash Marching Knights Present:

TRIBAL: “We are ONE”

The 2015 NNHS Marching Knights Production will explore the exotic sounds of world music and the essence of what it means to belong to a unique group of people.

Tribal will be an aesthetic experience for audience members, built on the unique sights and exotic sounds of an exciting blend of eastern, western, and African music.

The Score for the program is based on: Thunder from the Cirque du Soleil production Totem. Uninvited by Allanis Morrissette,. Invocation and African Dance by Matt Conoway. Visually, totem poles and village scenes inspire the look for the production.

The program Tribal will not attempt to tell a specific story, but to transport audience members to culture of a fascinating village through the art of outdoor pageantry.

Performance Dates

Performers

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2015 T-Shirt Design

Photo Galleries

First Full Performance

Candids