Adjunct staff

Mark Richardson, hornline instructor
A native of Arizona, Mark Richardson was born in Casa Grande and raised in the Phoenix area. After graduating high school, Richardson began instructing the marching band and concert ensembles at Corona del Sol High School in Tempe, Arizona. While teaching there for five years, he studied trumpet in the studio of David Hickman and received a bachelor of music degree from the ASU Herberger Institute School of Music. In 2005, Richardson took over the band program at Corona del Sol and held the head director position for two years. Since then, he has arranged music, designed drills and provided clinics for several marching band programs in Arizona. In 1999, Richardson helped form the Arizona Academy of the Performing Arts, an organization for which he now serves as executive director and director of The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps. Under his direction, the academy has grown to a world-class competitive unit that travels more than 10,000 miles each year in service of its 150 members. In 2006, Richardson was awarded the Drum Corps International Division II Director of the Year award.

Brandy DuBose, instructional specialist and director of colorguard
Brandy DuBose is an instructional specialist Sr., director and choreographer for the Arizona State University Sun Devil colorguard. She was born and raised in Texas and attended Texas State University-San Marcos as a dance performance major. She taught the Bobcat Marching Band Color Guard and Millennia Independent Open Winterguard for 11 years. She taught the Seguin High School colorguard in Texas for 10 years, from 1995 to 2006. After moving to Arizona in May 2006, Brandy began working with ASU.

Brandy has served as caption head for other organizations such as Tarheel Sun, The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps, The Blue Knights, and was a member of the colorguard staff for the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps. She marched in the colorguard at Phantom Regiment and was a member of the Nouveau (IA), Speakeasy (IA) and Ascension (IW) winterguard programs. In addition to her involvement with ASU, she works with multiple local high school programs and is the director of Fenix Independent Winterguard. DuBose resides in Gilbert, Arizona, with her loving family Wardell and Miles King.

Denise Hudson, colorguard instructor
Denise Hudson is a faculty associate on the guard staff at Arizona State University. In addition to her work with the Sun Devil Marching Band, she is on staff with FeniX Independent, FeniX Independent Open Winterguards. Denise serves as circuit administrator for WGAZ. She is a proud member of the WGAZ Hall of Fame. Additionally, she served four years as WGAZ Judge’s Coordinator and equipment judge. Denise has attended several WGI symposiums on behalf of WGAZ, during which she has continued to grow as an administrator.

Before her appointment at Arizona State, she served on the band faculty at the University of Kansas. Her duties included coordinating the colorguard program for the Marching Jayhawks and Administrative Assistant for the Midwestern Summer Music Camp series. She also was a staff member for the Sky Ryders Winterguard, Blue Springs High School Golden Regiment, Lawrence High School. She served as an adjudicator for JAMA and the Mid-Continent Colorguard Circuit receiving training under Shirley Dorrite, Beverly Brahan, George Olivero and Sal Adamo. Denise has served on the production staff for the Liberty Bowl and Alamo Bowl and has had students perform in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLIX. She has served as choreographer and consultant to the Clondokin Youth Band in Dublin, Ireland.

Before working at KU, Mrs. Hudson served 11 years on the band staff at Southwest Texas State University, now Texas State University-San Marcos. She coordinated the colorguard program and was the SWT Band Camps administrative assistant. She was also co-founder of the Millennia Winterguard and was very active as an officer in the Texas Colorguard Circuit. She also worked or consulted on numerous central Texas band staffs, the University of Nebraska, and the six-time Class A Bands of America champion Oskaloosa High School. Denise is a graduate of William Penn University with a BSE in secondary education.

Her family includes her husband, James, the director of the Athletic Bands program at Arizona State University and her son, Aaron, who graduated from Arizona State in 2012 with a double major in history and anthropology.

David Roybal, colorguard instructor
David Roybal has been involved with the marching arts for over a decade and has been part of the FeniX organization for eight years. In addition to both FeniX teams, David has performed with the Sun Devil Marching Band, Gold Drum and Bugle Corps and Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps. He has also taught at Paradise Valley High School, McClintock High School and Perry High School. 

Aaron Hudson, hornline instructor
Originally from Iowa, Aaron was born into a band family. He was raised in Texas and later graduated from Free State High School in Lawrence, Kansas, in 2005, where he began his musical career. Soon after, he joined the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps from 2005–07, playing tuba, and aging out as a DCI finalist and co-section leader. In 2009 he returned to the Colts to march in President Obama's inaugural parade. Additionally, he has performed with numerous choral and instrumental groups from the University of Kansas and Arizona State University.  Aaron was a member of the SDMB from 2006–09, serving as baritone section leader. An advocate for early jazz and its history, he joined the Dixie Devils program in 2010 on washboard percussion.

Aaron graduated from ASU in 2012 with a dual BA in history and anthropology. At ASU, he studied many facets of U.S. history, including military, culture and technology. In his senior year, the Triple Helix Science and Society Review at ASU and Carnegie Mellon University selected him as a featured writer.

Aaron has served on many programs' visual staffs, including Dobson High School, Clondalkin Youth Band, SDMB and Williams Field High School. He has also worked in the background of WGAZ events for four years, helping with tabulation and commentary. He is an alumnus of Kappa Kappa Psi and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and resides in Gilbert, Arizona.

Bianca Caryl, director of the dance team and spirit leader
Bianca Caryl has been a dance teacher and company director at Desert Vista High School for over 20 years. She holds a bachelor’s degree in dance and was awarded ASU’s Outstanding BA Graduate in Dance in 1994. She also earned her master’s degree in secondary education from ASU.

Under Caryl’s direction, Desert Vista Dance Company appeared in the Super Bowl XLIX halftime show starring Katy Perry. It achieved five State Championship titles in the Large Group Jazz Division at the Arizona State Cheerleading and Pom Tournaments (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020). Her experience includes 30 years of serving as a teacher at local dance studios, regional and national-award winning choreographer, principal stage performer in the Super Bowl XXX Half-time show starring Diana Ross, and choreographer of DVHS school musicals such as Cinderella, Grease, Guys and Dolls and Little Shop of Horrors.

Caryl received the Tempe Union High School District’s Governing Board Award of Excellence in 2008. She was honored as the Tempe Union High School District 2017 Teacher of the Year at Tempe Diablos Awards for Excellence in Education. She feels that her proudest professional achievement has been seeing so many of her former students go on to dance in college and pursue careers in dance.  Many of her former students are now working as dance teachers, coaches, performers on Broadway, with Disney, the Radio City Rockettes, commercial work in Los Angeles and as acclaimed choreographers.  

Coach Caryl has been the ASU Spirit Squad coordinator and dance coach since 2017. She has seen her team consistently place in the top 5 at UDA College Dance Team Nationals in the Jazz1A Division and most recently transitioned into the Pom1A Division with a top four placement. Under Coach Caryl’s direction, the ASU Sun Devil Dance Team has also been named in the Top Collegiate Dance Teams in the country by Dance Spirit Magazine 2018 and College Magazine 2019, as well as being named 2019 Best Cheer and Dance Team of the Valley by the voters of Arizona Foothills Magazine.  

Roberto Paz, percussion instructor
Roberto Paz was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona. He has performed with The Academy Drum and Bugle Corps and the Concord Blue Devils, winning three Drum Corps International World Championships. With the Blue Devils, Paz was a part of the undefeated Fred Sanford High Percussion title. He had the privilege of being section leader with the Blue Devils during their undefeated world championship season.

Paz has performed with many groups, such as the Arizona Cardinals Drumline, Boom Percussion Entertainment, Blue Devils Entertainment, and the Phoenix Suns Entertainment. With these groups, Paz has performed at NBA events, conferences, trade shows, and even NFL events, including Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLIX.

Paz graduated from ASU with a bachelor of music in music education. He was part of numerous ensembles at Arizona State, including the wind orchestra, contemporary percussion, Steel Pan Devils, men's chorus and various other small ensembles. Paz worked and studied under J.B. Smith, Mark Sunkett, Simone Mancuso, Dom Moio and Bill Sallak.

While attending ASU, Paz directed the percussion section for the Sun Devil Marching Band. He has been involved with this organization since 2007 and continues to arrange its percussion music.

Paz holds professional memberships in the Arizona Music Educators Association, the National Association for Music Education, the Percussive Arts Society and the Arizona Band and Orchestra Directors Association.

He is an active clinician and arranger throughout the country. Lot Riot, Mapex Drums, Randall May International Stands and Carriers, Remo Drumheads, Vic Firth Sticks and Mallets, and Zildjian Cymbals endorse him as an artist.

Paz currently serves with the Arizona National Guard as a musician and recruiter. He also writes, teaches and coordinates for the Sun Devil Marching Band.