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Jeff Summers

Musical Director

Trumpet

Jeff Summers is an active musician in the Washington D.C. region. He has been teaching instrumental music since 1999 and is currently at Mount Airy Middle School.

 

Jeff has performed at venues such as the Montreaux Jazz Festival in Switzerland, Rainbow Room in New York City, Blues Alley in DC, The Kennedy Center and at Meyerhoff Hall with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.

 

Jeff has been nominated for Outstanding Teacher of the Year in Carrol County Public Schools five times including this 2022-2023 school year.

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Dennis Anthony Ferry

Trumpet 

Born outside of Pittsburgh, PA, Dennis began studying trumpet with his father, a trumpet player and big-band leader. Dennis began playing with his Dad's band in high school.

 

He earned music degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and from Catholic University.

 

Dennis's first job as a professional musician was with the US Air Force Band in DC (1970 - 1974). He then left the US and played principal trumpet in orchestras in Israel, Germany, Holland, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.

 

In the US, he has performed with the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra, Boston Early Music Festival, National Symphony Orchestra (DC), Baltimore Symphony, Washington Bach Consort, Opera Lafayette (DC), and the Olney Big Band.

 

As a pit-musician, he has performed at Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theater, and the Kennedy Center Opera House.

 

Dennis returned to the DC area in 2009 and is an active free-lancer. He lives in Rockville, MD with his wife, Stephani, a professional flutist and full-time member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra.

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Matthew Buckner 

Trumpet

Matthew Buckner has been playing with the Market Street Band since 2017.  He studied music  at Marshall University during the mid 90's.  He performed with most of the ensembles they had to offer.

 

After college he took a long break from the trumpet.    In 2016 he picked the trumpet back up with the Hood College Symphonic Band.  Since then he has played with the Hood College Jazz Band,  Sunday Night Big Band,  Swinging Harmony Jazz Band and the Harmony Cornet Band.

 

When not playing trumpet you can find him  mountain biking the rad trails in the Frederick Watershed. 

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Robert Haas

Trumpet

Robert developed skill quickly in school which led to 8 years with the Hi-Landers Dance Band and playing with many Towson Jazz Ensemble members.

 

Robert performed 4 years with the Jazz Ensemble under Rick Henderson and Dr. George Ross and studied with Paul Grier, Dr. Emerson Head, Wayne Cameron and Dr. Donald Reinhardt while at the Univ. of Maryland.

 

After completing the Music Education Degree and business endeavors he transitioned to an IT Quality Management/Service Management career serving Federal contracts and large corporations. 

Since 2010, he's performed annually in the U of Maryland Alumni Jazz Band and Pep Band exceeding 100+ dates. He has enjoyed since 2016 being with both the MSBB and the Sunday Night Big Band and also played with some other area bands.

Robert enjoys performing with numerous great local players and band directors while networking and improving and learning more aspects of playing which include sharing lead trumpet roles. His young twin boys are learning about music by sharing these experiences.

Meet The Band

Trumpet Section

saxophone Section

James Kevin Lewis

Saxophone 

Kevin Lewis is a professional saxophonist who studied classical saxophone with Dr.

David Jacobsen and studied jazz both with violinist Joseph Kennedy Jr. and Grammy

award winning composer and arranger, tenor saxophonist Charles “Chip” McNeil while at Virginia Tech. Kevin played the 1 st and 2 nd alto saxophone and baritone saxophone with the Virginia Tech Jazz Ensemble for 6 years, including a special performance with Arturo Sandoval. Kevin has also performed professionally on the soprano, alto, and tenor saxophones since 1992 with various jazz, blues, funk and fusion groups. He currently performs with the Market Street Big Band, of Frederick Md and East Coast Stroke, of Hagerstown, Md.

 

Professional highlights include numerous performances at community organizations and jazz clubs throughout the Maryland and Virginia area, airtime on local college radio and television and on National Public Radio, and opening for jazz great Maynard Ferguson, the ska band Pietasters and the rock band Squirrel Nut Zippers. John Coltrane, Sonny Stitt, Cannonball Adderley and Charlie Parker are some of the jazz performers that have

influenced Kevin’s musical style.

 

Kevin holds two Bachelor of Arts degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, one each in History (1995) and Music Education

(1999) and a Masters in Music Education from Kent State University (2013).

 

He is currently the Band and Orchestra director at West Frederick Middle School. He was the past Music Director at Frederick High School for 17 years and past Director of the Jazz Ensemble at Hood College for 14 years, both in Frederick, Md.

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Anthony Bonomo

Saxophone 

Originally hailing from central New Jersey, Anthony Bonomo got his start playing tenor saxophone in big bands in the Trenton, Princeton, and Philadelphia areas, with appearances at Chris’ Jazz Cafe in Center City Philadelphia and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. 

 

Anthony then attended the University of Maryland, studying under the late, great Chris Vadala while pursuing dual degrees in Jazz Studies and Mechanical Engineering. After graduating, Anthony decided to sell out and pursue a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin while still managing to keep up his saxophone chops by practicing regularly in his small sound isolation booth. 

 

Since returning to Maryland, Anthony is happy to have been let out of that box and back onto the playing scene, with recent guest appearances with the UMD Alumni Jazz Band, the Philadelphia Jazz Orchestra, and the Rockville Swing Band. He is excited to be taking on the new challenge of playing lead alto for the Market Street Big Band. 

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Marcia Doerr

Saxophone

Marcia Doerr is a Marylander who studied French School classical saxophone with Chris Ford at St. Mary’s College of MD in St. Mary’s City.

She is thrilled to join the Market Street Big Band, and plays in many local jazz bands including lead alto in the Sunday Night Big Band, and subbing with the Olney Big Band and the Rockville Swing Band on alto, tenor or bari as needed. She is the baritone saxophonist with the Maryland Band Directors Band.

Marcia currently studies with Noah Getz and serves on the board of The World Music Collective, which brings performances to Washington, DC.

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Amber Linde,

Saxophone

MSBB Business Manager

 

Amber Linde is proud to be a comeback musician! She started playing again in concert and big bands in 2019; joining the Market Street Big Band in 2021.

 

She plays tenor, alto saxophones and the flute. She madly enjoys the arts and is a Board Member and tenor sax player for The Browningsville Cornet Band; is the Manager and tenor sax player for the Market Street Big Band, plays flute/sax for the Harmony Cornet Band, and serves as the President of Italia Performing Arts Institute (dance).

 

Amber's day job is serving as a NIAID Program Officer for the Adenoviruses, DNA Tumor viruses, Parvoviruses & Poxviruses Portfolio.

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David Friedman

Saxophone

Hailing from Oxon Hill, Maryland, Dave has been playing saxophone for about 47 years.  He graduated from the University of Maryland, where he played with the marching band, concert band, basketball pep band, and jazz lab.

 

Mainly a tenor player, Dave also plays the alto, baritone, and soprano saxophones.  Over the decades, he's played with the Old Line Band, the Montgomery Village Band, the Damascus Community Theatre, the Hip Nautics, and the Neek Nee Project.  Currently, he's playing baritone sax with the Market Street Big Band, lead alto with the Browningsville Cornet Band (Damascus, MD area), lead tenor with the Swingin' Harmony Band (Frederick, MD).  Mr. Friedman also fills in with the Rockville Swing Band, on whichever sax part is needed in a pinch.

trombone Section

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Mladen J Udbinac

Trombone

Wanted in multiple countries, master of disguises Mladen has occasionally been spotted playing trombone in various academic, community and professional ensembles over the last half century. He subsidizes his musical hobby through dirty deeds (done dirt cheap), as a professional engineer.

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Mark Eisenhower

Trombone

Mark is a graduate of Col. Zadok Magruder High School and was the instrumental music teacher there for 32 years beginning in 1985. The Magruder bands and orchestras regularly earned Superior ratings at district and state festivals. He earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree from the University of Northern Colorado and taught for three years in Mitchell, Nebraska before returning to Montgomery County. 

 

An active bass trombonist, Mark has performed with the Capitol Wind Symphony, the Trinity Chamber Orchestra, the Maryland Band Director’s Band, and the Maryland Winds. He has conducted several Montgomery County Public Schools honors ensembles, serving as the conductor of the junior honor band in 1991 and the senior band in1992. For over 15 years he prepared the MCPS Senior Honor Band for notable guest conductors such as: Anthony Maiello, Eliott Del Borgo, Jack Stamp, Harlan Parker, Emily Threinen, and John Lynch. In 2004 he conducted the Anne Arrundel County Mid-Level Honor Band. In 2010 he conducted the Calvert County Honor Band. For fourteen years he was the manager of the Maryland Senior All State Band, and in 2001 he had the honor of conducting the Maryland Junior All State Band. In 2016 Mark was named one of 50 Directors Who Make a Difference by School Band and Orchestra Magazine.

 

Mark became the Executive Director of the Maryland Winds in 2020. As executive director, he  is responsible for overseeing the administration, programs, and  strategic plan of the organization. He also assists with fundraising, marketing, and community outreach.

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John Distel

Trombone

John is from the Hudson Valley region of New York and now lives in Frederick, Maryland. He was introduced to the trombone by his elementary school music teacher, Mr. Peter Stellato. He began playing jazz music in seventh grade. John played through high school earning All-County Honors each year. After playing for a semester in junior college, John put the horn down for 25 years until 2020. John joined the Montgomery Village Community Band under the direction of Steve Wampler in 2021. While not a jazz ensemble, he loves the variety of music. Early in 2022, he was invited to play with the Browningsville Cornet Band as a substitute where he met principal trombone Mladen Udbinac and Amber Linde and within two weeks he was rehearsing with the Market Street Big Band and re-learning many of the charts he played in high school.

 

Over the past two years, John performed with the Maryland State Community Band last summer

at River Hill High School and looks forward to that opportunity again this summer.

 

When he’s not playing, you can find John traveling across Europe, riding his motorcycle, or

officiating high school football and basketball in Frederick, Montgomery, and Howard County.

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Alan Engelberg

Trombone

Alan Engelberg is a retired medical doctor who grew up on the southside of Chicago, a place where jazz was everywhere. At age 12, when he started playing trombone, he belonged to a music organization that brought students from the southside of Chicago together with students from the south suburbs to play in concert bands and jazz bands. The students were given the opportunity to attend the Stan Kenton Band Camp at Indiana University each summer during their high school years, which Alan did, playing each summer in a band directed by the great sax player and arranger and composer Oliver Nelson. After high school he attended the University of Illinois, and even though he was a pre-med student and not a music student, he joined the university’s #1 jazz band, which played at the Mobile (Alabama) Jazz Festival, and the Midwest Jazz Festival at Notre Dame University, at which Oliver Nelson was a judge, and who recognized Alan on stage from his high school years in his band at the Kenton Band Camps. During medical school in New York City Alan began to play in symphony orchestras, the Doctors Orchestra of New York and the Bronx Symphony Orchestra. During his career as a physician he played in jazz bands, orchestras and concert bands, depending upon what was a available where his career took him. In St. Louis in the 1990s he played in the Jazz Edge Big Band, in which he had the joy of playing a gig with the great jazz trumpet player, Clark Terry. He also played a gig with Frank Foster, one of the greatest musicians affiliated with the Count Basie Band. When his medical career brought him back to the East Coast in 1999, he joined the Big Band Sound jazz band, which played at venues in the Hudson River Valley. He also played in the Weill-Cornel Medical School’s Music and Medicine Program Symphony Orchestra after he joined the medical staff at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center’s Employee Health Service in 2004. He was a member of both these music organizations until he retired from medicine in 2016. In retirement his a member of the Market Street Big Band, and two orchestras and two concert bands in West Virginia and Maryland.

Rhythm Section

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Danny Tait

Drums

Coming Soon!

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Tom Lindsey

Guitar

As a native of Daytona Beach, Florida, Tom began his professional music career upon entering Daytona State College, enrolling in a music performance degree until witnessing a touring Navy band and deciding to enlist and serve in the Army with the 76th Army Band in Kaiserslautern, Germany. After a 3-year tour, Tom exited the military and stayed in Germany for a total of 10 years. During this time, he performed and/or toured with The Platters, Martina McBride, and Charlie Daniels, and many other international and regional acts which took him through other European countries (England, Belgium, France, Holland, Luxembourg, Italy, Germany, Scotland, and Switzerland).

After returning to the military in effort to resume his military career as a musician, Tom was stationed in Georgia (during which time he did a 4-month tour to England, Bosnia & Herzegovina, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, Qatar, Iraq, and Jordan), Alaska (where he opened for The Presidents of the United States of America as well as Little Big Town), and finally at Fort Meade, Maryland, as part of the US Army Field Band performing with the Six-String Soldiers, The Volunteers, The Jazz Ambassadors, and the Soldier’s Chorus.

He has toured 49 states and has supported and toured alongside Nightranger, Kansas, John Fogerty, Scythian, and Bill Kirchen, and has performed at the Kennedy Center, The Meyerhof, and the Warner Theater. He has also performed the televised shows of Conan O’Brien, Harry Connick Jr., The Stephen Colbert Show, The Hallmark Channel, and CNN with Robin Meade.

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Robert O'Neal

Piano

Robert O'Neal is a long-time member of the Market Street Big Band. He is also a founding member of the Sunday Night Big Band in Westminster, and plays with various combo groups in and around Carroll County. Robert has an MA in Music from Open University in the UK, and a BS in Music Education from Frostburg State University in Western Maryland. He is a high school teacher in Carroll County, where he currently teaches Social Studies and Vocal Music. Robert also directs the pit orchestra for his school's theatrical productions, and teaches private music lessons outside of the school day.

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Kyle Morton

Bass

Coming Soon!

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Sarah Marean

Vocalist

Sarah is a native of Cumberland who moved to Carroll County in 2020. She received a music degree from Frostburg State University. While touring with the Frostburg Chamber Choir, she performed in several basilicas and cathedrals throughout Italy.

She's currently on the production team for the drama department at South Carroll High School: acting as music director for the spring musical, and assisting with costumes for straight plays. She also helps lead the choral program at South Carroll High School. Her artsy interests outside of music include crochet and stained glass.

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Suzane Rosen

Vocalist

Suzanne Rosen is a classically trained pianist who began to study music at the age of 5. Her love of music was encouraged and nurtured, as the child of two professional vocalists/musicians. Notably, she won first place at the Bela Bartok Piano Competition at the University of Maryland. Her continued passion for performing and competing won her a music scholarship to East Carolina University where she earned a double music degree (B.M. Piano Performance and Piano Pedagogy).

As an accomplished vocalist, her musical versatility has allowed her to sing in a variety of bands (pop, country, R&B, big band, blues, and jazz) and in a wide range of venues throughout Washington D.C. and Northern Virginia, including Wolf Trap, Capital Yacht Club, Congressional Country Club,The Spirit of Washington and Odyssey cruise ships. With an M.A. in Clinical Counseling, she is currently married with two children and enjoys her position as Adjunct Professor at Frederick Community College teaching Sociology, Psychology, and Interpersonal Communication.

 

As a vocalist/member of the Market Street Big Band, Suzanne continues to fulfill her passion for music.

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Frankie Barwell


Vocalist

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