Imperialis (INA)

Colin Apperson, an alumni of Fairfield High School, marched with the San Jose Raiders World guard in 2004 and 2005 before turning to teaching. Colin has worked as a technician, choreographer, and consultant with numerous middle school, high school, and independent programs since 2004 and is the current Colorguard Director at Inderkum High School. Colin also adjudicates for the Northern California Band Association since 2009 and currently serves as the Movement Caption Manager.

Victor Ramos is the current Color Guard Director of Franklin High School (Elk Grove, Sacramento) and has assisted other groups from Crystal Middle school (Suisun City), Antioch High School (Antioch), Armijo High school (Fairfield), and many more. Victor started Color Guard when he was a sophomore at Armijo High School (2015-2018) after he graduated he has gotten to perform with InMotion Performance Ensemble 2019 (Fairfield), Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets 2019 (Santa Clara), and Imbue Winter Guard 2020 (Modesto). I'm looking forward to this amazing and exciting experience.

Ben has been coaching, designing, and consulting for attention-grabbing, award-winning shows for numerous schools and independent programs for the last 15 years. His instructing experience include: Benicia, Fremont, Vanden, Archbishop Riordan, Franklin, John Swett, "...of essence", and San Mateo. Ben’s performance experience include: Benicia High School, San Jose State University, San Jose Raiders, "...of essence" Winterguard, In Motion Performance Ensemble, and Infinitus Winterguard.

Ben's teaching style aims to build lifelong skills such as team work, self-confidence, time management, effective leadership, while inspiring students to fuel their passion for the arts.