Marcus Pimpleton

Pimpleton at practiceMarcus J. Pimpleton is in his ninth year as music director at Denny Middle and his first as director of the Chief Sealth High School Concert and Marching Band. In his time at Denny-Sealth Mr. Pimpleton has been the architect of the Denny music program’s expansion, and has helped build that program into the most diverse  middle school music program in our district with classes in concert band, marching band, orchestra, jazz, mariachi, choir, and steel drums. In addition to that, as a part of the school’s new International School status, Pimpleton oversaw the acquisition of new equipment for a guitar ensemble set to begin this winter, and an afro-latin drumming ensemble which we are hoping to launch this spring. The music program at Denny now involves over 1/3 of the school’s population, with over 150 students enrolled in the band program alone

Prior to his coming to Sealth, Pimpleton served two years as director of the Garfield High School Marching Band and eight years as director of the Seattle Public Schools All-City Marching Band which he continues to direct. Mr. Pimpleton is himself an alumnus of both Denny and Sealth and is excited about the opportunity to give back two schools which nurtured him as a student. At the University of Washington, Mr. Pimpleton served three years as drum major of the famed Husky Marching Band, and two years as president of the Gamma Chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity before earning his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees in August 2002.

Outside of his work with the Denny-Sealth, Mr. Pimpleton is active as a clinician for local high school marching bands, and serves as a consultant for Seattle Music Partners, a non-profit organization which pairs students at low income elementary schools with advanced high school, college, and professional players for free private lessons at their school. Mr. Pimpleton also serves as the youth minister at Zion United House of Prayer and is a doctoral student in theology at the AL Hardy Academy of Theology.

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