Sarah Wagner

Director of Bands

Miss Sarah Wagner holds a double Master’s Degree in Trumpet Performance and Wind Conducting from the University of Denver where she studied trumpet under Alan Hood and conducting under Joseph Martin. While at the University of Denver, Miss Wagner stayed busy playing trumpet in ensembles including the Lamont Wind Ensemble, the Lamont Symphony Orchestra, and the Lamont Jazz Orchestra. She was an active member in the Lamont Percussion Ensemble and spent much of her free time as a music clinician in the Denver area. Miss Wagner also holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Colorado Mesa University.

Miss Wagner is an active music performer as well as music educator throughout the state of Colorado. She has taught marching and concert percussion as well as brass with the Glenwood Springs High School Percussion Ensemble, Lakewood High School Bengal Regiment, Longmont High School Indoor Percussion Ensemble, Legacy Percussion Ensemble, NoCo Amplitude Percussion Ensemble, and other schools in the St. Vrain Valley district. Prior to her time at the University of Denver, Miss Wagner was the assistant director at Altona Middle School and Skyline High School. Outside of Colorado, Miss Wagner is an active DCI instructor, teaching the 2023 Battalion trumpets, the 2022 Boston Crusaders mellophones, the 2019-2021 Arizona Academy high brass, the 2017-2018 Oregon Crusaders high brass, and acts as the current Brass Captionhead for the Troopers Legacy Corps.

Miss Wagner has performed professionally all around the world; she is an active member of the Denver Bronco Stampede Drumline, the Denver Nuggets Sky-Line Drumline, and was an inaugural member of both the Colorado Avalanche Celly Squad and first all female Beauty and the Beats Drumline. She has traveled all across the United States performing with the 2013 and 2014 Casper Troopers and has also spent time overseas performing with the Blue Knights in Bahrain. Miss Wagner has performed alongside many artists including: Flo Rida, 3oh!3, Bear Grillz, Slushii, Baby Bash, Paws the Music, DJ Bedz, and was even featured in a Kacey Musgraves music video, ‘Velvet Elvis’.