Tri-City Winter Guard

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.

Colin Apperson is the current Color Guard Director of Armijo High School (Fairfield), Inderkum High School (Sacramento), and Crystal Middle School (Suisun City). She is also an instructor for the WGI Independent World Class Winter Guard In Motion Performance Ensemble, and a color guard adjudicator with the Northern California Band Association. Colin has performed with the San Jose Raiders Winter Guard and the Seattle Cascades Drum and Bugle Corps.

Shruti Senthilram is a sophomore at Irvington High School. She plays the clarinet, starting in 5th grade. She has been a part of Tri-City Band Corps since this year. Her hobbies include playing the piano, the clarinet, reading, and painting. She usually enjoys painting in the acrylic medium. She also enjoys reading realistic fiction novels. Aside from those hobbies, she mainly likes playing and hanging out with her younger sister. One fun fact about her is that she is a vegetarian. Another fun fact about her is she has been playing the piano since she was 7, and her favorite piano piece is Hungarian Dance no. 5 by Brahms. Also, her favorite dessert is Strawberry Ice-cream with chocolate chips. If she could be any animal, she would be a peregrine falcon. Peregrine falcons are one of the fastest animals on Earth, when they are diving. Plus, flying seems fun, and she thinks she'll enjoy being able to fly.