Marching Band Director Hired For William Tennent High

WARMINSTER, PA —William Tennent High School has a new director for its marching band.

The Centennial School District has announced that Nick Seifert, who hails from Bridgewater N.J., has been hired after previously serving as band director at Immaculata High School in Somerville, N.J.

In his prior position, Seifert directed the Spartan Marching Band, three in-school concert bands, assisted with Jazz Band and Pit Orchestra, and advised the Tri-M Music Honor Society, school officials said.

Under his leadership, the Spartan Marching Band made an exciting entrance to the NJMBDA circuit, finishing in the Top 5 out of 25 competing bands in the state, and capturing the BOA Piscataway Regional Class A Championship.

Seifert graduated from the University of Notre Dame with majors in saxophone performance and biological science. He studied saxophone with Wade Armentrout and conducted with Dan Stowe.

He was involved throughout with the Band of the Fighting Irish, performing with the Marching and Pep Bands, Symphonic Winds, Jazz Bands, Saxophone Ensemble, and on the annual Concert Band Tour.

For his service to the band, he was awarded the Notre Dame Outstanding Band Member Award in 2020, school officials said.

Outside of school, Seifert is an active director, performer, and arranger.

He is in his second season playing lead mellophone in the DCA World-Class Champion Hawthorne Caballeros. Seifert also serves as director of Somerset Hills Harmony, a mixed A Capella and competitive Barbershop Chorus.

Seifert is also a long-time handbell musician, performing with church choirs, collegiate handbell ensembles, and at nearly a dozen local festivals.

He is a member of the Barbershop Harmony Society, Handbell Musicians of America, the National Association for Music Education, Phi Beta Kappa, and has served on the board of the New Jersey Marching Band Directors’ Association.

School officials said Seifert is currently teaching biology at the Solebury School. He is excited to be able to inspire students through both of his passions: science and music.

Seifert lives in Stockton, N.J., and when at home, he enjoys riding his bike along the river and paddle-boarding down the canal.