Keith Brion & Loras Schissel arranger

Keith Brion is the conductor of his own New Sousa Band, and is a frequent guest conductor of major and regional symphony orchestras. He is a former band director at Yale University. He has recorded with his New Sousa Band, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Stockholm Symphonic Wind Orchestra and the bands at the Ohio State University and Michigan State University.
Loras Schissel is the founder and conductor of the Virginia Grand Military Band and is active as a band conductor and clinician. Long an avid Sousa scholar, he also serves, along with his colleague Keith Brion, as an advisor to John Philip Sousa Inc. He ia a native of New Hampton, Iowa, having pursued studies at the University of Northern Iowa.