Jim Moriarty returns for a fourth year in the UCMB after spending 3 years as a member of the trumpet section. He has played in the pep band and jazz lab band while at the University of Connecticut and was a featured soloist for the marching band in 2008. Jim had no prior marching experience before attending UConn. He is from East Longmeadow, MA, and in high school he was selected to the Massachusetts All-State band for his junior and senior year and was the brass captain and trumpet section leader for 2 years. He managed and conducted a pit band for a student run talent show in high school and is the President and founder of the East Longmeadow Community Band.

Outside of music, Jim is one of 24 students in the University Scholars program where he has created a unique curriculum combining Civil Engineering with Ecology and environmental systems to focus on sustainable design. His University Scholar project involves assessing the mixed-use Storrs Center design for its environmental integration of water and energy systems. He has completed a separate 110 page honors thesis on ‘Ecologically Sustainable Building Design’ where he created a design to renovate a 108 year old community building in Wilbraham, MA using green building strategies. Jim is a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Accredited Professional, one of only 200 students in the country, and is the co-chair of the Connecticut Emerging Green Builders. He regularly attends regional and international green building conferences and is a member of many professional organizations including NESEA, ASHRAE, ASCE, and Tau Beta Pi (national engineering honors society).

Brendon (his friends call him Foley) is a seventh semester music major from Rockville, CT. In his time at Rockville, Brendon marched for four years and in his senior season served as Drum Major for the Marching Ram Band. At UConn Brendon has played with the Pep Band, which recently accompanied the Lady Huskies to St. Louis for the 2009 National Championship, he has also preformed with the Concert Band on tuba and sat principal trombone in the Symphonic Band in the Fall of 2008. Brendon is the bass trombonist for the University Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra and over the summer plays with The Glastonbury Towne Band. This past season has been Brendon’s third in the UCMB where he served as Trombone Section Leader and featured soloist in Santana’s Smooth/Yaleo. Brendon aspires to march with a DCI Corps. This upcoming Summer and is pursuing a career in Music Education.

Brendon is a Brother of Kappa Kappa Psi, National Honorary Fraternity for College Bandmembers, and has been chapter Alumni Liaison and is currently the chapter’s Historian.

Brendon enjoys candle lit dinners and long evening walks on the beach (and Band Field). WACCA WACCA!