John Drechen
SJBODA President
2025-Present
President’s Message September 2025
Welcome back to another exciting school year!
Every summer throughout my career, like many of you, I would spend time planning events, trips, programming music for performances, evaluating my ensembles and the skillset of my young musicians. It always filled me with the promise of an exciting new year with a new combination of musicians embarking on the adventure we all share in this wonderful profession. It is my hope that all of you begin the year with that same excitement and enthusiasm that becomes the fuel that motivates our young musicians to pursue excellence in performance and in life.
While I have turned the page on that chapter of my career, I intend to be available to you as a resource, an additional voice of support, another pair of hands applauding your student’s performances. Please take advantage of that and invite me out to your performances (and rehearsals, should you wish), so that I can support your good work and the musical ensembles throughout the region!
Please join us at our annual Fall Membership Meeting on Wednesday, October 8th, at Seven Star Diner in Sewell. The meeting begins at 9:00am and includes an amazing breakfast. At the meeting, we will be discussing all the events and activities planned for this year. So, come on out, get a few hours of professional development and catch up with some old friends. Please RSVP (see link below) by October 3rd.
I wish you a wonderful, exciting start to this new school year! Let’s make 2025-2026 one for the books!
Registration Link:
https://bit.ly/fallmeeting2025
John Drechen
SJBODA President
[email protected]
Welcome back to another exciting school year!
Every summer throughout my career, like many of you, I would spend time planning events, trips, programming music for performances, evaluating my ensembles and the skillset of my young musicians. It always filled me with the promise of an exciting new year with a new combination of musicians embarking on the adventure we all share in this wonderful profession. It is my hope that all of you begin the year with that same excitement and enthusiasm that becomes the fuel that motivates our young musicians to pursue excellence in performance and in life.
While I have turned the page on that chapter of my career, I intend to be available to you as a resource, an additional voice of support, another pair of hands applauding your student’s performances. Please take advantage of that and invite me out to your performances (and rehearsals, should you wish), so that I can support your good work and the musical ensembles throughout the region!
Please join us at our annual Fall Membership Meeting on Wednesday, October 8th, at Seven Star Diner in Sewell. The meeting begins at 9:00am and includes an amazing breakfast. At the meeting, we will be discussing all the events and activities planned for this year. So, come on out, get a few hours of professional development and catch up with some old friends. Please RSVP (see link below) by October 3rd.
I wish you a wonderful, exciting start to this new school year! Let’s make 2025-2026 one for the books!
Registration Link:
https://bit.ly/fallmeeting2025
John Drechen
SJBODA President
[email protected]
Sue Mark
SJBODA Past President
2023-2025
SJBODA Past President
2023-2025
