Carter Frederick has been the Head Band Director at The Woodlands High School since 2022. He is a gifted music educator and an asset to the CISD music program.
In Mr. Frederick’s first year with TWHS, he led the marching band to a 1st place win at BOA North Houston Regional Championship, 2nd place win at BOA Super Regionals Championship, 1st place win at the UIL Region F Marching Band Contest and a 4th win at the 2022 UIL State Finals Marching Contest.
Mr. Frederick is originally from the Houston area and grew up in Missouri City, TX. He is a very proud graduate of the University of Houston where he studied Music Education with a focus in Trumpet Performance.
Prior to joining TWHS, Mr. Frederick taught music at Jersey Village High School in Cy Fair ISD for 9 years. Music and teaching are his real passions in life.
Andy Salmon is a 1998 graduate of the University of Kentucky where he received his bachelor’s degree in music education while studying with James Campbell.
Mr. Salmon is in his 25th year as Percussion Director at the Woodlands High School and McCullough Junior High School. During his tenure at the Woodlands High School, the marching band has been a consistent Bands of America Grand National Finalist and was named the 2013 BOA Grand National Champion.
The Woodlands High School Percussion Ensemble was selected as the 2014 Percussive Arts Society “Call for Tapes” high school champion and performed at the 2014 PAS convention in Indianapolis, Indiana. The Woodlands High School Wind Ensemble has performed at the Midwest Band and Orchestra clinic in 2003 and 2012, where he was featured as a performer on the xylophone and drum set. Mr. Salmon was a member of the Blue Knights Drum and Bugle Corps and the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps.
Mr. Salmon has music published by Tapspace Publications and is an educational endorser for Innovative Percussion, Zildjian cymbals, Evans drum heads and the Yamaha Corporation. Mr. Salmon has two children, Caden (age 10) and Ava (age 6). Mr. Salmons’s wife, Claire teaches AP US History and AP World History at the Woodlands High School. The Woodlands High School band continues to be the vehicle he uses to teach life lessons and skills to help students become good people.
Proudly born and raised in Kingsport, TN, Aaron Stickley is excited to continue teaching and advocating for music education as well as the marching arts as he enters his 9th year in the band hall.
Mr. Stickley is currently the Assistant Director of Bands at The Woodlands High School. His primary responsibilities at The Woodlands are to co-direct the marching band and direct Symphonic 1 and Symphonic 2.
Before his time at The Woodlands High School, Mr. Stickley held band director positions at Dickinson High School (TX), Lamar High School (TX), and Paragould High School (AR). During his time at Paragould, the band program received the 2016 Arkansas Class AAAA State Marching Championship, the 2017 All-State Honor Band, and the 2017 National Band Association Blue Ribbon Award presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic.
Mr. Stickley graduated Magna Cum Laude with a bachelor’s degree in Instrumental Music Education from Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, TN. While at MTSU, he marched drum corps with the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps (2012) and Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps (2014) on baritone and trumpet. He currently is a brass instructor at the Madison Scouts Drum and Bugle Corps. Mr. Stickley is an active visual designer/choreographer and has designed for band programs in Arkansas, Indiana, Michigan, and Texas. He is an active member of the Texas Bandmasters Association and the Texas Music Educators Association.
Cynthia Robbins joined TWHS Band staff in the summer of 2014 and has been an asset to the program ever since.
For the last 9 years, Cynthia has been music and visual coordinator for our award-winning color guard program. She choreographs routines, designs flags and costumes, oversees all aspects of the Winter Guard, and assists in planning and executing TWHS marching band contests. In addition to her high school duties, she also leads the Color Guard at McCullough Junior High, the feeder program to TWHS.
TWHS Marching Band & Color Guard is the 2013 Bands of America Grand National Champion and has been in the Top 10 since 2010. In 2022, TWHS World Guard earned Bronze at the WGI Scholastic World Championships, the first time a team from Texas has medaled at the Scholastic World competition.
Prior TWHS, Cynthia served as Color Guard Director at Clear Brook High School, as well as an independent groups in the Houston area.
Additional Marching Band Staff
Percussion Technicians
Andy Filipiak
Wind Arranger
Wayne Downey
Front Ensemble Arranger
Andy Filipiak
Battery Arranger
Andy Salmon
Sound Design
Matt Jordan
Electronics Consultant
Erik Kosman
Drill Writer/Program Coordinator
Jon Vanderkolff
Program Consultants
Wayne Downey
Michael Raiford
Choreographer
Seth McPhail
Color Guard Assistants
Romney Livingston
Guard Staff
Tiffany Quinones
Joseph Danforth
Visual Staff
Jordan Barker
Josh Crocker
Hayden Henley
Colby Clem
Charlie Burnap
