Jury 2025 March / Marching Parade / Show
Supervisor Dieter Buschau, Germany
Hans-Dieter Buschau’s musical career started in a flute band that was converted into a marching band, where he played the flute and the trumpet. After having become conductor of the band it became very successful and became German Champions. Since then he successfully took part in various competitions with a number of bands as their conductor.
In 1987 he became an adjudicator for various organisations, e.g. the Lower Saxony Band Assocation NMV and Drumcorps Germany. He became a member of the WAMSB Judges Bureau in 2007. He has judged in numerous competitions and has been a clinician all over Germany, France, Denmark, Poland Spain, Canada, USA, Malaysia, Taiwan, Colombia and Brazil including jury assignments in 9 WAMSB world championships.
H.-D. Buschau is a retired public school teacher and he is Director of Music in the Lower Saxony Music Association, vice Director of Music in BDMV (German Band Federation) and member of the WAMSB Board of Directors.
Hans-Dieter Buschau begann seine musikalische Laufbahn als Mitglied eines Spielmannszuges, der in eine Marching Band umgestellt wurde, in der er Flöte und Trompete spielte. Nachdem er den Verein als musikalischer Leiter übernommen hatte, war dieser sehr erfolgreich und wurde Deutscher Meister. Seither hat er als musikalischer Leiter mit einer Anzahl von Gruppen erfolgreich an Wettbewerben teilgenommen.
1987 wurde er Juror für verschiedene Verbände, u.a. im Niedersächsischen Musikverband und für Drumcorps Germany. 2007 wurde er Juror der WAMSB. Er hatte Wertungs- und Dozenteneinsätze in ganz Deutschland, Frankreich, Dänemark, Polen, Spanien, Kanada, den USA, Taiwan, Malaysia, Kolumbien und Brasilien, darunter als Juror bei 9 WAMSB Weltmeisterschaften.
H.-D. Buschau pensionierter Lehrer an einem Gymnasium. Er ist einer der Landesmusikdirektoren im Niedersächsischen Musikverband, stellv. Bundesmusikdirektor Spielleutemusik in der BDMV und Mitglied des WAMSB Board of Directors.
Junt Apivut Minalai, Thailand
Apivut ( Junt ) Minalai (b. 1981) Director of Bands , arranger, conductor, and winds music educator. Apivut ( Junt ) Minalai is a Director of Bands and official Teacher of Performing Arts Department in Suranari Witthaya School from Nakhorn – Rachasima, Thailand.
Under his direction and baton , Suranaree Girls Wind Symphony & Marching Band received numerous national champions title and honors in the areas of concert, parade, and marching show.
The Suranaree Girls Wind Symphony was invited to WMC World Music Contest in Kerkrade Netherlands and got gold awards in 2017, Also the Czech Republic Prague Wind Orchestra Festival 2020 and in this festival, he was named the Best Conductor in 2015 and 2023 in GERMANY and Prague.
Mr. Junt is only one Thai who conduct Japanese band and got 4 times All Japan National Champion title with The Tenrikyo Aimachi Band from Nagoya Japan under the direction of Mr. Kiyokatzu Sekine Aimachi,
Junt has conducted Aimachi Band for 6 years of contest season. Mr.Junt is also serves as an arranger and composer, having released numerous marching band arrangements, concert band works and compositions.
He is constantly in demand as an adjudicator, clinician, and guest conductor for concert & marching band. He was served as Drum Corps Europe Judges, World association For Marching Show Band Judge, Grand Prix Marching Band in Indonesia, and as a winds and music judge for many national and International contest such as Taiwan, Malaysia, Japan Germany, Canada Etc.
Now JUNT looking forward to work and create the beautiful and touched music with the young band group to work with them and try to teach they life skills troughs the Concert & Marching Band music.
Dariusz Krzysztof Krajewski, Polen
Dariusz Krzysztof Krajewski hat einen Abschluss an der I.J. Paderewski Akademie für Musik in Posen im Fach Blasorchester-Dirigat und an der F. Chopin Akademie in Warschau/Außenstelle Białystok ein Studium der Posaune absolviert, weiterhin einpostgraduales Management-Studium an der WSH in Radom. Er war Stipendiat des polnischen Ministeriums für Kultur und Nationales Erbe (2018, 2020). Dariusz ist Dirigent des Orchesters Grandioso Radom seit 2008. Er ist auch Vorsitzender des Vereins Grandioso, sowie Lehrer für Posaune, Tuba und Euphonium an der Musikschule in Radom. Er ist Präsident des Polnischen Blasmusikverbandes und der WAMSB Polen, Vorsitzender der Juroren des Polnischen Blasmusikverbandes und beratendes Mitglied im Vorstand von WAMSB International. Zudem ist er Gründer und Vorsitzender des polnischen Zweig von Phi Beta Mu – Rho Omicron Er ist Begründer und Organisator der Nationalen Blasorchester-Konferenz der Offenen Polnischen Meisterschaften dem International Band Day, der Juroren-Kurse in Polen der Kampagne „Instrumente von und für einen Freund für ukrainische Flüchtlingen , und der Polnischen virtuellen Blasorchestermeisterschaften während der COVID Pandemie. Letzte Erfolge: Mit dem Orkiestra Grandioso Radom gewann er die Polnischen Meisterschaften 2024, wurde Vizeweltmeister in der Straßenparade 2024, Europmeister in der Marschparade 2016, European Vize-Europameister in der Parade 2018, 2019, 2022, und er erreichte einen 4. Platz bei den Weltmusikfestspielen beim WMC 2022 in den Niederlanden.
Richard (Rick) Good, USA
Rick Good began his tenure at Auburn University in 1995 as marching band director and associate professor of low brass. He was promoted to director of bands and associate professor of conducting in 2007. Under his direction the Auburn University Marching Band received national acclaim. The marching band’s membership grew from 275 to 375, the largest marching band in the history of Auburn University, during his tenure as director, and in 2004, the AU Marching Band received the Sudler Trophy Award, the nation’s highest and most coveted award for college and university marching bands. In January of 2005, the band was selected by the Presidential Inaugural Committee to attend the inaugural parade of George W. Bush. In 2006, the band was selected as one of the top ten marching bands in the country featured at the LSU Hall of Fame Museum entitled „America’s Finest University Marching Bands.“
In addition to overseeing the successful development of all university bands, Good’s current duties include conducting the Auburn University Symphonic band, the university’s top performing instrumental ensemble and the AU Wind Ensemble, a smaller select group that features soloists and sections in unique musical opportunities. He also teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in conducting as well as wind literature.
Good has received many honors and awards. In 2006, he was named the co-director of the Macy’s All-American Marching Band, working collaboratively with Jon Woods from The Ohio State University. In June 2003, he served as the executive musical director of the Alabama Ambassadors of Music, which consisted of highly talented high school and college vocal and instrumental musicians who embarked on a sixteen-day musical tour of seven European countries. He has been honored with the College of Liberal Arts Teaching Effectiveness Award in Fine Arts and named a Faculty Honoree by the Cardinal Key Honor Society at Auburn. He is a member of the National Band Association’s Board of Directors and serves as marching band executive chairman. Good holds various memberships in national and international organizations and is active as a freelance musician and an adjudicator throughout the United States, Mexico, Caribbean, and Europe.
Jury 2025 Konzert
Alfons Aigmüller, Austria
Pedagog. Academy with teacher training
Studied music at the Bruckner Conservatory with a degree in singing and organ
40 years as bandmaster, including 22 years as district bandmaster of the Schärding district.
41 years – since 1966 in uninterrupted succession – as an adjudicator at concert and marching music competitions (mostly as chairman of the jury).
Since 1980 member of the OÖBV regional management.
Werner Hoffmann, Germany
Werner Hoffmann learned the clarinet as a child and later turned to the flute. He received his training with Kurt Cromm (Saarbrücken University of Music). As a flautist in the Rhineland-Palatinate Police Music Corps, he began training as a conductor with Rudolph Riedel (Peter Cornelius Conservatory) and attended lectures with Sergio Celebidage at the University of Mainz. From 1985 until the dissolution of the orchestra, Werner Hoffmann was corps leader of the Düsseldorf Police Music Corps.
Respected as a profound expert on the subject, he taught for many years at the Landesmusikakademie NRW and was also a frequent guest at the Bundemusikakademie. Since 1990, he has held the position of state conductor/deputy conductor at the Volksmusikbund NRW and is a popular adjudicator throughout Germany
Martin Meier, Switzerland
Martin Meier was born 1958 in Gränichen, a small village in Switzerland. After his apprenticeship as a train traffic controller at SBB, he studied Human Resources and Management at the Institute for Applied Psychology in Zürich. His basic training as a conductor started 1990-1993. From 1994 to 1997 he studied in part-time wind orchestra direction at the Zurich University of Music. Since 1991 he is an active conductor of wind orchestras of various strengths and formations, primarily in the Eastern part of Switzerland. In the army he conducted various military orchestras. Trained as a coach for conductors , he attended various master classes. In June 2018 he successfully completed his training as an international juror at the Federal Academy of Music in Trossingen (Germany). He is regularly invited as a juror in Switzerland and in other countries.
From 2005 to 2020 he was member of the board of the Appenzell Music Association (ABV), vice-president of the education and training department, presiding the music commission. The ABV appointed him as honorary member in 2020. Since 2010 he is involved as a juror and speaker on leadership issues and personality development for conductors.
Professionally, he worked over 35 years as a Human Resources Manager in various companies before he decided to retire in June 2023. Music always stays a very important part in his everyday-life. He still plays in various orchestras as guest on the French horn.
Privately, he lives in Lutzenberg, canton Appenzell, together with his wife. Besides music, his hobbies are working in the care team (crisis intervention), travelling, visiting concerts, cooking, good wines and trips as a temporary driver at Postauto AG.
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