  David Dunham Mr. Dunham has been a band director since 1986.
In 2000, he opened the Clark Middle School Band program in Frisco ISD and was the head director until 2007. In 2005, the Clark MS Band was selected as the 5th place CC Middle School Honor Band in the State of Texas. In 2007 the Clark MS Symphonic Band was selected as a National Winner of the National Wind Band Honors Contest.
In 2007, Clark MS split and Mr. Dunham followed the students to Fowler MS in Plano (Still Frisco ISD). Open since 2007, the Fowler Band has grown to 350 students in grades 6-8 and Fowler MS Symphonic Band in 2008 was selected as the 10th place CC and won 3rd place in the state of Texas in 2009. The band has been a Commended Honors winner in Mark of Excellence National Wind Band Honors in both 2008 & 2009.
Mr. Dunham is a proud graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Master of Music degree at Baylor
University, and has pursued doctoral work at the University of North Texas. While head band director at Waco HS, his band was selected as one of the 16 best concert bands in the nation and performed at the 1996 National Concert Band Festival in Chicago. From 2000-2003 Mr. Dunham conducted the Carrollton Community Band (now called the Carrollton Wind Symphony) and has performed as a member of the Metropolitan Winds.
Professional affiliations include Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Band Masters Association, International Association for Jazz Educators, and is an active member of Texas Music Adjudicators Association. Mr. Dunham is active as a Region Band Clinician and Adjudicator.
A native of Austin, Mr. Dunham is married with two sons.
Mr. Dunham directs the Symphonic Band, Jazz Band 1, and teaches beginning tuba class, a French horn class, and two beginning trumpet classes.
 Jenny DenisJenny Denis has been in teaching and at Fowler MS since 2007
Mrs. Denis received her Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2007. While at UT, Mrs. Denis performed with the Wind Ensemble for 4 years under the direction of Jerry F. Junkin. She played in the world premier of Bells for Stokowski (2003) & Circus Maximus (2005) and performed at the TMEA Convention in San Antonio (2006). Mrs. Denis was also a member of the Longhorn Band, Basketball Band and the UT Symphony Orchestra.
While working on her degree, Mrs. Denis also taught clarinet privately at Grisham, Chisholm Trail, Canyon Vista and Cedar
Park
Middle Schools as well as Westwood
High School.
Mrs. Denis served as President of Sigma Alpha Iota and Treasurer of UT MENC in 2006-2007. Her professional affiliations include: Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, Music Educators National Association, International Clarinet Association, Sigma Alpha Iota, and Texas Exes Alumnae Association.
Mrs. Denis currently resides in Frisco with her husband, Arturo Denis, Associate Band Director at Wakeland HS in Frisco.
Mrs. Denis will be teaching Honor Band, and will teach 2 sections of beginning clarinet, saxophone class, and double reed class.
Donald BruceMr. Bruce is starting his second year as a band director in Frisco, Texas and it will be his first year at Fowler MS. Mr. Bruce is a native of Manchester, New Hampshire and began his musical studies at age 8 playing the violin. Throughout middle school and high school he played saxophone, trombone, and the euphonium starting in his junior year. Mr. Bruce holds degrees in music education and euphonium performance from the University of North Texas where he attended on full music/academic scholarship. While at UNT he studied with Dr. Brian Bowman, whom is regarded as one of the greatest euphonium performers and pedagogues in the world.
Mr. Bruce has been a performing member of the UNT green brigade marching band, brass band, concert band, symphonic band, tuba-euphonium ensemble and graduate euphonium quartet. He was finalist for River City Brass Band principal baritone, Finalist United States Army Field Band section euphonium, 2nd place Tubonium competition, 2nd place Southwest Regional ITEC competition, 4th place Potomac International Euphonium competition, and semi-finalist Leonard Falcone International Euphonium Competition.
He has worked at Stafford middle school and Griffin middle school and taught all beginner low brass classes. Mr. Bruce’s professional Affiliations include, Texas Music Educator’s Association and Texas Band Masters Association. Mr. Bruce currently lives in Frisco, Texas
Mr. Bruce will be teaching Concert Band, Jazz Band II, and will teach 2 sections of beginning trombone, beginning euphonium class, and a beginning French horn class.
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