Students will enjoy the music and interactions with the musicians from the White Mountain Symphony Orchestra.
Nick Pulsipher has been teaching instrumental music for over a decade. He earned his bachelor's in Music Education from the University of Northern Colorado, performing trumpet in multiple concert bands, jazz bands, and small ensembles. He earned his Masters in Music Education from Southern Utah University, where he focused on modern pedagogy and conducting techniques, and started playing the viola as an elective. He’s been in love with it ever since. In his career he has taught concert band, jazz band, guitar, music production, and orchestra. He has taught in Yuma AZ, West Jordan Utah, and is currently the band and orchestra director at Show Low High School. He has performed with various bands, orchestras, jazz bands and pit orchestras on multiple instruments including trumpet, tuba, euphonium, horn double bass, and electric bass He and his beautiful wife Rachel have four kids ages 7, 6, 3, and a newborn. orchestral music to audiences in both traditional and non-traditional venues. ...LEARN MORE
The White Mountain Symphony Orchestra aspires to excellence in performance of a wide variety of orchestral music from all eras and a diversity of composers. Our performance repertoire has included full orchestral works, chamber music, concertos and collaborative performances with choirs and dance troupes. Among our most important activities is the annual “Music Is…” program introducing the 4th and 5th grade students of Navajo and Apache counties to the world of orchestral music. Each season we aspire to offer new opportunities and experiences for enjoying and sharing orchestral music with the White Mountains. For example, this year we will be introducing the students to "A March Through Time," marches throughout the centuries by a variety of composers.
The White Mountain Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1979 as the Silver Creek Symphony Orchestra and continues to grow and succeed. The key to this success is the commitment of our musicians to their individual musicianship and to the orchestra. In January 2000 the Silver Creek Symphony became an independent 501 c3 nonprofit corporation named the Silver Creek Regional Symphony. On September 2, 2004, the members of the orchestra voted to change the name to the White Mountain Symphony Orchestra to more accurately reflect the area that the orchestra serves.