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Directors of Clover High Bands
Eric C Wells
Eric Wells has been named band
director of Clover High School. Mr. Wells comes to CHS from Easley
High School where in three short years, he turned Easley into a AAAA
marching band contender and won the SCBDA Outstanding Performance Award each
of his three years there. A graduate of Winthrop University and UNC-Chapel
Hill, Mr. Wells is an accomplished trumpet player. His 2003 Easley
High School band placed fifth in the tough 4A SC marching band bracket after
winning two grand championships in local competitions. The 2004 Easley
Symphonic Band won superior ratings in grade six concert festival also - a
first for Easley High School.
Dan Lenard
Dan Lenard was born and reared in
Clover where he attended and graduated from Clover High School. He received
his Bachelor of Arts degree in Music Education in 1985 and was a graduate assistant at
Appalachian State University the following year.
Mr. Lenard spent his first year
teaching band in the Pickens County School District. He had the privilege of
returning to his hometown to teach band in 1987 and is currently teaching band at Clover
Junior High School and assist with the Clover High School Band.
Mr. Lenard has had three
nominations into the "Who's Who Among American Teachers" Association and was
awarded into the "Thanks To Teachers" program sponsored by WBTV in Charlotte,
N.C..
Some of Mr. Lenard's professional
affiliations have included performing with DCI Corp Suncoast Sound, the Asheville
Symphony, and arranging marching percussion for the Union High School Band, Los Alamos
High School Band, and the Clover High School Band. Mr. Lenard is also a member of
M.E.N.C. and S.C.B.D.A.. His wife, Marianne, is currently the music teacher at
Kinard Elementary School in Clover, SC..
Jeremy Cohen
Jeremy Cohen was born in
Gainesville, Florida and raised in Columbia where he graduated from Spring Valley High
School in 1989. Mr. Cohen earned a Master of Arts degree from West Texas A&M
University in Canyon, Texas in 1998 and a Bachelor's degree in Music Education from the
University of South Carolina in Columbia in 1993. While attending USC and WTAMU he
was a member of each school's symphonic band. While in graduate school, Mr. Cohen
also was member of the WTAMU clarinet choir which performed for the Texas Music Educators
Association convention. His college marching band experience includes a year of
playing the baritone and trumpet as well as two years experience on sousaphone.
As of July 2000, Mr. Cohen has
been teaching in Clover, South Carolina. His teaching responsibilities include: sixth
grade band at both Crowder's Creek Middle School and Clover Middle School, seventh grade
woodwinds at Clover Jr. High School, and assisted with the symphonic band and marching
band at Clover High School. Previously he was the band director at Southwest Middle
School in Savannah, Georgia. His teaching experience also includes one year of
middle school band and strings in Winnsboro, South Carolina and two years of private
lessons on clarinet, flute, and saxophone in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to his
teaching schedule, Mr. Cohen remains active as a performing musician. Ensembles Mr.
Cohen has performed with recently include the Savannah Winds, Palmetto Concert Band, Old
English Wind Ensemble, and the South Carolina Philharmonic Orchestra.
Mr. Cohen is a member of M.E.N.C.,
S.C.B.D.A., and Pi Kappa Lambda. His wife, Wendy, is the principal flutist with the
South Carolina Philharmonic and the Augusta Symphony.
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