Chris Tomsa
Program Coordinator / Brass Arranger

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BIO: The pageantry arts have been Chris' passion for four decades as a performer, instructor, arranger and adjudicator. Chris has instructed and arranged for many of the world's finest drum and bugle corps including Phantom Regiment, Madison Scouts, Glassmen, Colts, Capital Regiment and 27th Lancers. In his years at Madison, they won three DCI High Brass titles and the 1975 World Championships, where Chris mentored with DCI Hall of Fame brass instructor James Elvord.

Chris also had the unique opportunity to mentor with two legendary band and drum corps arrangers, Ray Baumgardt and Jim Ott. He put this experience to good use in the marching band activity for the last 20 years, having arranged for some of the nation's top high school and college marching bands from around the country. He currently is the Program Coordinator and Brass Arranger for the Colts Drum & Bugle Corps of Dubuque, Iowa.

Chris is an adjudicator for WGI Sport of the Arts and president of the Mideast Judges Association. He lives in Berea, Ohio, where he is Director of Client Services for Hyatt Legal Plans, a MetLife company. Chris studied music education at the Cleveland Institute of Music, Case Western Reserve University, and the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

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