Rick Stetson is a professional musician and music educator located in the South Jersey area. He has been an adjudicator for USBands since 2019.

Rick holds a bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from Wilmington University. During his time at Rutgers, Rick studied orchestral percussion with Joseph Tompkins and Kyle Zerna of the New York Philharmonic.

Rick is currently an Elementary School Band Director in the Penn-Delco School District in Aston, PA. Prior to moving to the elementary school, Rick was a band director and general music teacher at Northley Middle School.

Rick has accrued a decade of teaching experience with both drum corps and indoor drumline. This includes: instructing the Cadets2 Front Ensemble for the 2014 and 2015 seasons, instructing Cadets Winter Percussion for the 2014, 2015, and 2016 seasons, and teaching The Cadets Front Ensemble since 2018. Rick is currently part of the Cadets Front Ensemble staff for the 2023 season.

In addition to his work with DCI, DCA, and WGI performing ensembles, Rick has been an instructor and arranger for numerous high school marching bands and indoor drumlines. He was the Assistant Marching Band Director and Director of Indoor Drumline at Cumberland Regional High School from 2016 to 2018. In the past, he was an arranger and percussion instructor at high schools around the area including: Old Bridge, Woodbridge, Robbinsville, Edison, and Clearview Regional High School.