2026 FZN River City Showcase Adjudication Panel

Beth Fabrizio – Rochester, NY

Beth A. Fabrizio recently retired after 36 years as a public school educator. She most recently taught in The Hilton Central School District in New York as a director of bands at Village Elementary School. Fabrizio maintains a private clarinet studio with numerous students pursuing careers in music education, music business, therapy, recording, and performance. She performed as the principal clarinetist and personnel manager with The Greater Rochester Music Educators Wind Ensemble and former Eb clarinetist with The Perinton Concert Band. Fabrizio is a freelance performer and an active artist/clinician. She also presents educational clinics and workshops through Fabrizio’s Musical Concepts.  

Fabrizio has conducted various honor bands and given master classes and clinics across the United States, Europe, Japan, and Malaysia. She has taught marching bands and drum and bugle corps for over 40 years. Fabrizio has been the brass caption head with The Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps; brass coordinator with The Pride of Soka from Tokyo, Japan; and brass staff with the Boston Crusaders, The Glassmen, and Spirit of Atlanta. Fabrizio adjudicates for Bands of America, Drum Corps International, Winter Guard International, and numerous other state associations. She is honored to be the founder and charter member of the newly formed Chi chapter of Phi Beta Mu and was inducted in May of 2022. 

Fabrizio holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Clarinet Performance from the Eastman School of Music. She also holds a Master of Music degree in Conducting, Education, and Performance from Ithaca College. Fabrizio has studied conducting with Rodney Winther and Dr. Donald Hunsberger and clarinet with Michael Webster, Richard Waller, Stanley Hasty, William Osseck, and Carmine Campione. She has also performed in master classes with Richard Stoltzman. 

Barry Bernhardt – Lake St Louis, MO 

Barry W. Bernhardt recently retired after 14 years as Director of Bands at Florida International University.  At FIU, Professor Bernhardt conducted the FIU Marching Band, Court Side Players, and Symphonic Band. In addition, Bernhardt taught courses in Instrumental Conducting, Music Education and Evolution of Jazz.  Bernhardt was also the Area Coordinator for Winds, Brass and Percussion in the School of Music, where he oversaw 6 major ensembles and 10 full-time and adjunct professors.

Prior to coming to FIU in 2010, Mr. Bernhardt was the Director of Bands at Southeast Missouri State University (1990 – 2010), the Associate Director of Bands at Stephen F. Austin State University (1988 – 1990), the Assistant Director of Bands/California State University – Long Beach (1984 – 1988),  the Assistant Director of Bands at Truman State University (1982 – 1988) and the Director of Bands at South Shelby High School (1981 – 1982). Professor Bernhardt holds both the Bachelor of Music Education Degree (1981) and the Master of Arts Degree, in Music Education with an emphasis in Instrumental Conducting and Trumpet Performance (1984). 

Professor Bernhardt has been on the production/adjudication staff of Bowl Games of America/Sky’s the Limit Productions/Heritage Music Festivals for over 30 years and annually choreographs the halftime shows for Champs Sports, Orange, Gator, Sugar, Liberty, Alamo, Holiday and Fiesta Bowl. Bernhardt has conducted Halftime performances for 5 NCAA National Championship Football Games, (3) Sugar Bowl , (2) Orange Bowl.  He has been on the production staff for the NCAA Men’s and Women’s Final Four/Basketball for 10 years.  In addition, he has been on the production staff for Indy 500, NASCAR, MLB, and NFL.  Bernhardt is in constant demand as a guest conductor, clinician, drill designer/choreographer and adjudicator throughout the United States.  He holds membership in Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Kappa Kappa Psi, Pi Kappa Lambda, The Florida Music Educators Association, The Florida Bandmasters Association, CBDNA and Phi Beta Mu.

Steven Page – Paducah, KY

Active as an adjudicator since 2002 for DCI & BOA, Steven Page has judged marching band, drum corps, concert band, indoor drum line, indoor winds, and choir at over two-hundred events in twenty-nine states and provinces in the US, Canada, and Colombia. These events include eleven DCI Championships (both Open and World Class), eight BOA Regional Championships, and State Championships in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, South Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, and Mississippi. Having taught music in Kentucky since 1999, Steven Page also teaches band and choir in Paducah, Kentucky at Paducah Middle School. Steven and his wife, Shana, met in high school and have been married for 23 years. God has blessed them with seven boys and a girl.

Robert Solomon – Los Angeles, CA

Robert Solomon has been involved in the marching arts since 1979. He played trumpet and was drum major at El Camino Real HS in Woodland Hills, CA. Solomon continued to perform as a member of the color guard for the Velvet Knights Drum & Bugle Corps and at California State University, Northridge. He then turned to instructing and has designed for several top programs in Southern California, and continues today. He has been judging since 1996 and is an adjudicator for Winter Guard International, Drum Corps International, Bands of America, and various state and local associations. Solomon is a banker and lives in Los Angeles, CA.  

Nick Benson – Bothell, WA

From Seattle, WA, Nick has been teaching, designing and consulting for award-winning marching programs all across the United States for the past 20 years, specializing in movement training, drill/staging, choreography and program coordination/consultation.

Nick is currently the Program Coordinator/Visual Designer for the Kamiak H.S. Marching Band and Winter Percussion from Mukilteo, WA, a position he has held since 2008.  He is also the program coordinator for the Seattle Cascades drum corps.

​Upon relocating to the Portland metro-area in 2004, Nick held the visual caption head position for the Division III Champions and Open Class Finalist Oregon Crusaders Drum & Bugle Corps (2004-2006, 2008-2009), and the Cascades Drum & Bugle Corps (2007).

Mr. Benson was the Visual Caption Head for the Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps from 2008-2012, helping them reach DCI Finalist status for the first time in 23 years in 2009. He also held the position of Visual Designer for the 2011 Troopers Drum & Bugle Corps. Nick was also the Artistic Director and Visual Designer of the Seattle Cascades Drum Corps from 2013-2019.

In 2009, Nick had the opportunity to travel to Thailand in the role as the Visual Caption Head for the Siamyth Drum & Bugle Corps in Bangkok, Thailand.

As a performer, Mr. Benson got his start with the Cascade High School Marching Band and later marched with the Seattle Cascades Drum & Bugle Corps (1998, 2001).

While attending the University of Washington and Western Washington University, Nick studied Music and English and performed with numerous music ensembles as a trombone, euphonium and tuba player. In 2003 he had the opportunity to perform with the Concord Blue Devils, capturing their 11th DCI World Championship.

​Alongside Adam Oswald and Dylan Thompson, Nick Benson has co-authored a marching and movement program built for marching bands and drum corps alike. Its objective was to create a cohesive and holistic approach to movement and marching, both from an individual and ensemble standpoint.

Nick currently lives in Bothell, WA with his wife, Andrea, his two sons, Sullivan and Foster, and their cat, Lilah.

Tim Hudnall – Knoxville, TN

Tim Hudnall has 40+ years of experience in design and instruction in marching band/winter guard programming. Hudnall’s marching band adjudication includes multiple circuits across the country, and he is currently affiliated with several marching band and winter guard judging associations. He is currently on the rosters as an adjudicator for Bands of America (BOA), Winter Guard International (WGI), and Drum Corps International (DCI).

With a varied teaching past, Hudnall has been the director, program coordinator, and/or consultant for several programs in Kentucky, Florida, and Tennessee. His groups have been finalists at WGI regionals, semi-finalists at WGI World Championships, and medalists in multiple winter guard circuits in the Southeast. His marching band clients have been involved in various local, state, and national competitions and are regular participants in BOA Championships as well as BOA Regional finalists.

Hudnall is a graduate of Western Kentucky University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology/Chemistry and a Master of Science degree in Public Health. He was a member of the “Big Red Marching Band” as a trumpet and color guard performer and a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity.

Currently, Hudnall and his wife Anne reside in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he works as a Physician Assistant at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital.