From Jerry Kelsey

"As a former Band Director, I understand the challenges you face when putting together a successful marching band program.

The worry as to whether or not your production will be accessible to your students, while competitive in your arena is just one more thing to add to the list.

That is why I am committed to providing you with a timely and successful arrangement that plays to the strengths of your program and maximizes their success.

I have supported your colleagues for over 30 years. It would be my pleasure to support you and your program.

Feel free to contact me at 585-786-2925 and lets take one more thing off your list."

When Experience Counts

Jerry Kelsey has been active as an arranger/composer, music educator and adjudicator for the past 30 years.

Through his business: Custom Arranging Services, he continues to serve as an arranger/composer for many high school marching bands, collegiate marching bands, and drum & bugle corps all across the United States.

Some of the more prominent marching bands he has scored for include:

• Cape Fear H.S. in North Carolina
• Dublin/Scioto H.S. in Ohio
• Apex H.S. in North Carolina
• Lake Travis in Texas
• Stone H.S. in Mississippi
• ColumbiaH.S. in Mississippi
• Petal H.S. in Mississippi
• Manheim Central H.S. in Pennsylvania
• Gainesville H.S. in Georgia
• Boone County H.S. in Kentucky
• Plano West H.S. in Texas
• Seminole H.S. in Florida
• Farmington-Harrison H.S. in Michigan
• Milford H.S. in Ohio
• Roanoke Rapids HS in North Carolina

He is the current arranger for the Wake Forest University in North Carolina.  He has also written for:

• University of Buffalo
• Syracuse University
• University of Minnesota
• Pearl River Community College
• Jones County Community College
• SUNY Stony Brook
• McNeese State
• The University of South Florida
• University of Hawaii

He has been the brass arranger/instructor and musical designer for many prominent Jr. Drum and Bugle Corps throughout the decades including the Crossmen, Suncoast Sound, Florida Wave and most recently Capital Regiment. He was also recently a consultant and brass instructor with the Boston Crusaders.

He is currently the arranger and brass instructor for the 5-time DCA World Champion Empire Statesmen, and has arranged for the San Francisco Renegades, Rochester Crusaders, and Racine Kilties.

Jerry is also a proud member of the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame.

He is a published arranger with Warner Bros. Co., Arranger’s Publishers Co., and recently was employed by Home Box Office.

As a composer his premier of Overture: To a New Beginning was commissioned by the West Bloomfield Wind Symphony in Michigan.

Mr. Kelsey was also a highly successful high school band director in both New York and Florida.

Jerry is also very active as an adjudicator. He has served as an adjudicator for the ISSMA in Indiana, the Southern States Judges Association, the New York Federation of Contest Judges and Drum Corps International.

Mr. Kelsey is also a producer with Mark Studios in Clarence, NY. He recently was a  producer for “Euphonium Unlimited’s”  latest project with Brian Bowman.
Mr. Kelsey holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fredonia State University in Fredonia, NY.  While at Fredonia he studied composition with Dr. Walter S. Hartley and conducting with Dr. Harry John Brown.

He currently resides in rural western New York with his wife Dianna and daughter, Jessie.