Josh Wissell is from Cheney, Washington and is currently the band and strings director at Westwood Middle School as well as the assistant director at Cheney High School, both of which reside in the Cheney School District. He graduated Magna Cum Laude in 2014 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Education and a Bachelor of Music in Instrumental Performance.

 

Josh is currently in his second year of teaching at Westwood Middle School where he is in charge of the entire band and strings program that includes five different performing ensembles. Josh has also worked with the Cheney High School marching band the past 6 years, five of which he was the percussion caption head. He is also the drill writer and show designer for the Cheney High School marching band. While heading up the percussion section at Cheney, they have continuously placed very high in the percussion caption to include several divisional caption awards over the last few years. In addition, Josh is also taking over as the pep band director this year for both football and basketball.

 

Josh is also going into his second year as percussion caption head at Thunder Drum and Bugle Corps. In his first year at Thunder, he worked to get an endorsement through Innovative Percussion. Since then, he has received an educators endorsement through Innovative Percussion.