Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band: Musica Obscura  

University of Washington Professor Emeritus Timothy Salzman served as Professor of Music/Director of Concert Bands and conductor of the UW Wind Ensemble from 1987 to 2025. When he was appointed to the position there were 11 students enrolled in one UW wind band – in his final year there were 335 enrolled in five bands. Former graduate wind conducting students of Professor Salzman have obtained positions at 73 universities and colleges throughout the United States and include past presidents of the American Bandmasters Association and the College Band Directors National Association as well as Jiannan Cheng, cover conductor for the Philadelphia Orchestra. During his tenure at the UW the band program was involved in commissioning and, in certain cases, the premiering of 38 new works for wind ensemble and undertook many concert tours including seven to Asia. From 1978 to 1983 he was band director in the Herscher, Illinois, public school system where the band program received numerous state, regional and national awards in solo/ensemble, concert and marching band competition. Immediately prior to his UW appointment he served for four years as Director of Bands at Montana State University where he founded the MSU Wind Ensemble and ‘Spirit of the West’ Marching Band. Professor Salzman holds degrees from Wheaton (IL) College, and Northern Illinois University, and studied privately with world-renown wind instrument pedagogue Arnold Jacobs, former tubist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He has numerous publications for bands with the C. L. Barnhouse, Arranger's Publications, Columbia Pictures, Hal Leonard Publishing and Nihon Pals publishing companies, and has served on the staff of new music reviews for The Instrumentalist magazine. Professor Salzman has been a conductor, adjudicator, arranger, or consultant for bands throughout the United States and in Canada, England, France, Russia, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, the Philippines, China, and Japan, a country he has visited twenty-one times. He has traveled to China twelve times where he served as visiting professor at the China Conservatory, given master classes for numerous wind bands, and conducted several ensembles including the Shanghai Wind Orchestra, the People's Liberation Army Band, the Beijing Wind Orchestra, The China Conservatory Wind Ensemble and the Tsinghua University Band in multiple concerts. He also served on three occasions as an adjudicator for the Singapore Youth Festival National Concert Band Championships. He has conducted several of the major military bands in the United States including a 2019 world premiere with 'The President's Own' United States Marine Band. He was compiling editor and co-author (with several current and former UW graduate students) of A Composer's Insight: Thoughts, Analysis and Commentary on Contemporary Masterpieces for Wind Band, a five-volume series of books on contemporary wind band composers. The forwards to each volume were written by five Pulitzer Prize-winning composers. He was also a contributing author to a recent book (2022) about his former teacher entitled Arnold Jacobs: His Artistic and Pedagogical Legacies in the 21st Century. Professor Salzman is an elected member of the American Bandmasters Association and is a past president of the Northwest Division of the College Band Directors National Association. He is an elected member of the Drum Corps International Hall of Fame as well as the Santa Clara (CA) Vanguard and Cavaliers (IL) Drum and Bugle Corps Hall of Fame for his work as an arranger and brass instructor. In 2009 Nihon Pals, a music education resource company based in Osaka, Japan, released a set of instructional DVDs regarding ensemble musicality featuring the UW Wind Ensemble. The University of Washington hosted the 2011 National Conference of the College Band Directors National Association. 

Shayna Stahl (ABD) is currently in her final year in the Doctor of Music Arts/Instrumental Conducting program at the University of Washington. Currently she serves as Graduate Assistant Director of the UW Husky Marching Band, conductor of the UW Concert Band, and assistant conductor of the UW Wind Ensemble.  Her previous experience includes ten years as a staff member in the athletic band program at State University of New York Stony Brook including three years as Director of Athletic Bands. She also served for eight years as a music educator in the Middle Country Central School District where she taught Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and Jazz Band. 

Shayna Stahl earned her Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Stony Brook University and a Master in Music Education/Instrumental Conducting from The Hartt School of Music where she studied with Glen Adsit. She holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Temple University in Philadelphia where she studied horn with Shelly Showers and Dan Williams, both of the Philadelphia Orchestra. She has attended conducting workshops with numerous clinicians, including Michael Haithcock, Edward Cumming, Michael Colgrass, Jerry Junkin, Carl Sinclair, Mallory Thompson, Craig Kirchhoff, and Frank Ticheli. She is a member of the National Association for Music Educators, New York State School Music Association, Suffolk County Music Educators Association, College Band Directors National Association, Golden Key International Honor Society, Sigma Alpha Iota, and is an honorary member of Kappa Kappa Psi.  

Passionate about making music with people, self-proclaimed “band geek,” Taina Lorenz,
joins us from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Back home, she is Music Director of the
Cosmopolitan Music Society, a large adult community music organization of over 300
band, choir, and jazz musicians from beginner to semi-professional. Along with her
administrative duties, Taina conducts the Monday and Tuesday Bands, Summer Band,
and Chamber Winds.  Involved in many areas of the community, Taina also conducts the
Edmonton Schoolboys Alumni Band (The Edmonton Seniors Band), is Associate
Conductor with Mission Hill Brass Band, and teaches trumpet privately to students of all
ages. With her solid experience as both a conductor and trumpeter, including eighteen years of teaching instrumental music with Edmonton Catholic Schools, Taina is sought
after as a clinician and guest conductor in Edmonton, Western Canada, and the United
States. Taina has served on the board of directors for the Alberta Band Association, the Joint
Planning Committee for Music Conference Alberta, and is a member of Phi Beta Mu.

A performer for most of her life, Taina has played trumpet and euphonium in a wide
range of ensembles, including wind ensemble, concert band, symphony and pit
orchestras, brass bands, jazz bands, chamber winds, and as a soloist. She has conducted
wind ensemble, concert band, brass band, chamber winds, chorus, and chamber
orchestra. 

Taina holds a Bachelor of Education in Music Education, a Master of Music in Wind
Conducting from the University of Alberta, and is thrilled to be working on her PhD in
Music Education at the University of Washington. Her research interests include musical
perception and cognition, particularly in adults, instrumental methods and conducting
pedagogy.