Matt Power has been involved with the drum and bugle corps activity and marching arts for 35 years. Originally hailing from New Hampshire, Matt marched in several DCI Drum and Bugle Corps before spending his last three years as a snare drummer with the Cadets. He was a member of the ground- breaking 1989 Cadets percussion section, and winning both the DCI World Championship and the coveted Fred Sanford Award for High Percussion in 1990, as well as earning the Distinguished Service Award from the Cadets in 1991.
Matt has worked with some of the top drum and bugle corps in the country as a percussion caption manager, consultant and snare technician, including the Bluecoats, the Colts, the Seattle Cascades, the Marauders, Esperanza, and the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. Matt enjoys an active performance, judging, and clinic schedule, and is a leading percussion and music ensemble judge for the USSBA (United States Scholastic Band Association), TECA, and has judged the Texas state marching band finals several times, the Eastern Championship, and has been selected to be on the panel several times for the National Championship held at the Navy Stadium in Anapolis, Maryland. He was selected to help run the percussion section for the 2012 US Army All American High School Marching Band in San Antonio, which is the premier honor marching band in the United States. He is also an arranger for the percussion group, Tcha Degga Da, the famed marching percussion group in South America, led by Mr. John Grant, who were chosen to perform at the 2013 Carnival.
Matt has worked with some of the top drum and bugle corps in the country as a percussion caption manager, consultant and snare technician, including the Bluecoats, the Colts, the Seattle Cascades, the Marauders, Esperanza, and the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps. Matt enjoys an active performance, judging, and clinic schedule, and is a leading percussion and music ensemble judge for the USSBA (United States Scholastic Band Association), TECA, and has judged the Texas state marching band finals several times, the Eastern Championship, and has been selected to be on the panel several times for the National Championship held at the Navy Stadium in Anapolis, Maryland. He was selected to help run the percussion section for the 2012 US Army All American High School Marching Band in San Antonio, which is the premier honor marching band in the United States. He is also an arranger for the percussion group, Tcha Degga Da, the famed marching percussion group in South America, led by Mr. John Grant, who were chosen to perform at the 2013 Carnival.