Members
Our Conductor, Lylburn Layer, has been involved in music performance since his days as a fifth grader in the Lebanon, Ohio public schools. After a tour of duty in the late fifties with the U.S. Navy music program, where he was a founding member of the Navy Steel Band and member of the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C., he received his Bachelor of Music in Clarinet Performance and Music Education in 1964.
After five years of teaching high school/community college band and orchestra in Fullerton, California and performing in the Pasadena Symphony, he joined the faculty at Seattle Pacific University as Director of Instrumental Music and conductor of both the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. These organizations became well known for their excellence during his tenure. Also during that time he received his Master of Music in Conducting from the University of Washington. He then spent twenty-two years in the Mercer Island School District, the last twelve as High School Associate Principal and Coordinator of Fine Arts for the district.

He has studied clarinet with Mitchell Lurie (Pittsburgh and Chicago Symphonies), Harold Wright (Boston Symphony) and Ronald DeKant (New Orleans Symphony); and has studied conducting with Samuel Krachmalnic, Walter Ducloux and Charles Hirt.

Since his retirement from public education in July, 1998, Lylburn has been able to spend more time with his passions of private teaching, performing, and conducting.

Lylburn Layer

Conductor Lylburn Layer
Assistant Director Rob Pattermann graduated from Washington State University in 1975 with a double major in music and education. While at WSU he performed in the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra and the Washington Idaho Symphony.
Upon graduation, he taught instrumental music for fourteen years in the Shoreline School District, eight years as the director of bands at Shorewood High School. After completing a masters degree in education administration at Seattle Pacific University, Rob spent the last sixteen years of his career as a school administrator in the Arlington School District retiring as the assistant superintendent.
Besides his involvement with the North Cascades Concert Band, Rob is currently the president of the Everett Symphony Board on which he has served for the past four years, and is past president of the Everett Youth Symphony. In his spare time Rob enjoys golfing, hiking, boating, fishing, telling jokes and iof course listening to music. Rob has been a practicing trombonist for 44 years, and has been with the North Cascades Concert Band for the past eight years.

 

Assistant Director Rob Pattermann

The North Cascades Concert Band is very proud of the diversity found among our members and the extraordinary individual talents they provide. Every member brings a rich musical background with them from which they may share and others may learn. Recent soloists with the band include Bev Kirkpatrick, a flutist from Anacortes, clarinetist Paul Petrucelly, from the Cleveland Institute of Music, and violinist Sharyn Peterson, a  Seattle native who studied at the University of Washington. Several of our members have written compositions either for solo instruments, small ensembles, or for the band. Some of these are available for perusal or purchase at LaTorre Music.com
Current Band Roster
NAME HOMETOWN
Conductor and
  Musical Director		 Lylburn Layer Port Townsend
Assistant Conductor Rob Patterman Arlington
Conductor Emeritus
   and Founder		 Keith Eide Anacortes
Piccolo Adrienne Eide Anacortes
Flute Jan Dunton Anacortes
Bev Kirkpatrick  
Gretchen Piqott Arlington
  Jennifer Rubio Bellingham
  Brittany Schmidt Sedro Woolley
Lorrie Winchell Marysville
 Oboe Lucas van de Ven White Rock B.C.
Bassoon Christina Waltman Arlington
Clarinet John Benefiel Camano Island
  Marcia Boffey Camano Island
Jennifer Cool Sedro-Woolley
John Garret Mount Vernon
Miriam Greenshields Marysville
Rosalee Lewis Bellingham
Carl Libbey Mount Vernon
  Jeannine Lish Arlington
Elly Moen Arlington
Paul Petrucelly  
Kelvin Smith Bellingham
Clarinet, Alto Marjorie Reichhardt Blaine
Clarinet, Bass Phil Jones Bellingham
Clarinet, Contra-Bass Bill Barnes Mercer Island
Sax, Alto Louise Kolstad Lummi Island
Patti Newsted Bellingham
  Juha Niemisto Mercer Island
Victor Veltkamp Oak Harbor
Sax, Tenor Thomas Niemisto Mercer Island
Sax, Baritone Jerry Worth Bellingham
Trumpet Doug Engelson Mount Vernon
Patrick Garrett Mount Vernon
Bill Gurney Burlington
Bob LaTorre Stanwood
  Alan Lish Arlington
Cindy Luna Mount Vernon
  Kip Otterness Mount Vernon
Stan Relyea Burlington
Horn Alicia Brouwer Lynden
Ron Hayworth Bow
Amber Hudock Anacortes
Kim Rawson Mount Vernon
Lee Walkup Bellingham
Trombone John Boblett Bellingham
Bob Juhl Anacortes
Rob Pattermann Arlington
Cory Priddy Bellingham
Pat Swesey Arlington
John Townsend Mercer Island
Euphonium Paul Graves Arlington
Tom McFarland Ferndale
Tuba Al Baker Marysville
Warren Hopkins Arlington
  Max Kliewer Anacortes
John Rantschler Mount Vernon
Percussion Jill Davis Anacortes
Mary Ellen Hodges Mount Vernon
Joe Horsack Stanwood
Ken Keleman Bellingham
Amandea McDaniel Mount Vernon
Pam Moser Arlington
Katie Olson Mount Vernon
Alice Riddle Stanwood

 

Current NCCB Officers
President Lee Walkup
Vice President Bob LaTorre
Treasurer Jerry Worth
Secretary Miriam Greenshields
Directors Lylburn Layer - Conductor, Musical Director
Keith Eide - Foounder, Conductor  Emeritus
Carl Libby
John Garrett
Marjorie Reichhardt

 

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