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Scott Boerma is a teacher\u2019s teacher. He\u2019s also part of the Madison Scouts\u2019 DNA.<\/p>

For more than a decade, Boerma has served as the Director of Bands and Professor of Music at Western Michigan University. Before that, he led the University of Michigan Marching Band onto that giant yellow \u201cM\u201d at \u201cThe Big House\u201d every Saturday. Throughout his stellar academic career, Boerma has been creating memorable drum corps performances as well.<\/p>

Boerma started his marching career as a baritone player with the Madison Scouts in 1984. He became a member of the brass staff in \u201986. As co-caption head, he was charged with reworking some of the corps\u2019 brass arrangements in 1988, and the Scouts went on to win their second DCI World Championship title. In 1989, Boerma officially became the corps\u2019 arranger, teaching as he wrote.<\/p>

Under his leadership, the Madison Scouts brass section placed in the top five in brass performance at the DCI World Championships nine times, taking home the Jim Ott Best Brass Performance caption award in 1995<\/a>. In all, Boerma has spent more than a quarter of a century shaping the Scouts\u2019 sound and programs.<\/p>

\u201cScott not only contributed of himself tirelessly but led by example,\u201d DCI Hall of Fame member Sal Salas said. \u201cHe has inspired young adults to teach passionately and to be creative. His passion not only comes through his music but his teaching as well.\u201d<\/p>

Boerma was the arranger for a resurgent Spirit of Atlanta from 2008-2014, and throughout his career he also arranged music for Southwind, Seattle Cascades, Pioneer, Magic of Orlando, and the Americanos. His arrangements have also been featured by a number of all-age and international corps including the Yokohama Inspires, Minnesota Brass, Racine Kilties, Hawthorne Caballeros, and the Pride of Paisley (Scotland).<\/p>

While Boerma may be best remembered for his timeless arrangements and compositions for the Madison Scouts the likes of \u201cMalaga,\u201d \u201cThe Pirates of Lake Mendota\u201d and \u201cJesus Christ Superstar,\u201d another one of his arrangements was extensively woven into the fabric of Drum Corps International history, played by thousands of performers across DCI\u2019s corps.<\/p>

In 1994, Boerma was commissioned to arrange \u201cAmerica the Beautiful\u201d for Drum Corps Midwest, which was featured as corps assembled and played en masse during each event\u2019s awards ceremony. He added \u201cO Canada\u201d to the arrangement in 1996<\/a>, and it became an annual staple to celebrate the conclusion of the DCI World Championship Finals into the 2000s. When Drum Corps International celebrated its 40th anniversary, Boerma once again stepped up with a new arrangement for the combined corps, as \u201cSimple Gifts\u201d took center stage<\/a> during the finale of the 2012 DCI Finals in Indianapolis.<\/p>

\u201cScott represents the best of us and what we claim is at the core of our values,\u201d said Phantom Regiment\u2019s Dr. Todd Snead. \u201cHe is talented, hardworking, collegial, kind, passionate, and makes the world a better place through his craft. He has dedicated his life to music, to education, and to this activity.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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