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.

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	Rene Arbogast	Bellingham
	Bev Kirkpatrick	Anacortes
	Devon McColley	Arlington
	Wendy Haas	Kirkland
	Lorrie Winchell	Marysville
	Gretchen Piqott	Arlington
	Joanne Thomas	Mount Vernon
Oboe	Lucas van de Ven	Bellingham.
	Ian Krauter	Mount Vernon
Bassoon
	Jerry Schreuder	Mount Vernon
Clarinet
	Marcia Boffey	Camano Island
	Candy Childs	Burien
	John Garret	Mount Vernon
	Miriam Greenshields	Marysville
	Rosalee Lewis	Bellingham
	Carl Libbey	Mount Vernon
	Jeannine Lish	Arlington
	Elly Moen	Arlington
Clarinet, Alto	Marjorie Reichhardt	Blaine
Clarinet, Bass	Phil Jones	Bellingham
	Kat Hutchison	Bellingham
Clarinet, Contra-Bass	Bill Barnes	Mercer Island
Sax, Alto	Chadd Berry	Arlington
	Juha Niemisto	Mercer Island
	Victor Veltkamp	Oak Harbor
Sax, Tenor	Thomas Niemisto	Mercer Island
	Mike Schafer	Marysville
Sax, Baritone	Jerry Worth	Bellingham
Trumpet	Doug Engelson	Mount Vernon
	Patrick Garrett	Mount Vernon
	Alan Lish	Arlington
	Cindy Luna	Mount Vernon
	Stan Relyea	Burlington
	David Soiseth	Burlington
	John Henning	Camano Island
French Horn	Susanne Taylor	Bow
	Lee Walkup	Bellingham
Trombone	John Boblett	Bellingham
	Bob Harper	Stanwood
	Bob Juhl	Anacortes
	Rob Pattermann	Arlington
	Cory Priddy	Blaine
	Pat Swesey	Arlington
Euphonium	Paul Graves	Arlington
	Tom McFarland	Ferndale
Tuba	Al Baker	Marysville
	Warren Hopkins	Arlington
	Max Kliewer	Anacortes
	John Rantschler	Big Lake
Percussion
	Jill Davis	Anacortes
	Ken Keleman	Bellingham
	John O'Donnell	Bellingham
	Rick Staeb	Ferndale

Current NCCB Officers
President	Lee Walkup
Vice President	Al Baker
Treasurer	Jerry Worth
Secretary	Coralie Priddy
Directors	Lylburn Layer - Conductor, Musical Director
	Keith Eide - Foounder, Conductor Emeritus (in Memoriam)
	Carl Libby
	John Garrett
	Marjorie Reichhardt