breanna.osbourn@bryanisd.org
979.209.2560

Bre Osbourn is happy to be joining our Viking Band team this year as our new Director of Bands.  She is coming to us from Corsicana ISD where she spent the last decade building up a strong, successful band program, created an award-winning winter guard program and fostered community awareness and support for music and the arts.
Miss Osbourn is a horn and trumpet player and she earned her music education degree from Sam Houston State University, where she also served as the president of the Beta Delta chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi; the National Honorary Band Fraternity.  She is also in her fifth year of serving as the Band Division Chair for Region 8 of the Texas Music Educator’s Association’s 33 music regions that are stretched across Texas. 
Her favorite part of her job is designing and building innovative marching shows for her ensembles and exposing her students to all of the pathways they can use music throughout their lives after they exit the high school doors.  
Joining her in her move to Bryan are her 11 year old son Ean, who will be joining the Sam Rayburn Band this year and is already a competitive soloist and team member of the winter guard community, 8 year old daughter Adilyn, who has deemed herself the future drum major of the Carolina Crown Drum and Bugle Corps and their cats, bird, turtle and tarantula (don’t worry, she doesn’t bite)!

laura.grems@bryanisd.org
979.209.2578

Laura Grems is in her 3rd year as the Associate Band Director with the Bryan High School Bands. Ms.Grems serves as the primary director of the Symphonic Band and the Percussion Ensemble, while also assisting in the instruction of the Wind Symphony, Concert Band, and Marching Band. She also assists with the beginning percussion classes.
Ms. Grems is also the co-founder and executive director of the non-profit organization, Brazos Valley Independent Percussion. After a successful first year, the group will continue to compete in the 2020 indoor percussion season in the Texas Color Guard Circuit and the Winter Guard International Circuit. 
Ms. Grems grew up in Vienna, Virginia and later moved to Ann Arbor where she graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music Education, where she earned a University Honors distinction. At Michigan, Ms. Grems was an avid performer within the percussion studio. During her time in Ann Arbor, she performed as a member of the Symphony Band, and is on several album recordings. She was also a member of the renowned University of Michigan Percussion Ensemble as well as an orchestra pit member of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. From 2015-2017, she served as the Vice President for the University of Michigan’s collegiate board for the National Association for Music Education.
In her free time, Ms. Grems enjoys watching Michigan sports, traveling, baking, and spending time with her two cats. 

marie.debellis@bryanisd.org
979.209.2564

Marie DeBellis is in her 13th year as color guard director and assistant band director at Bryan High School and her 16th year of teaching. Her main responsibilities include directing the color guard and winter guard programs, assist with the Viking marching band, symphonic and concert bands, and assist with the middle school band programs in the district. Before moving to Bryan, Texas, she directed the color guard program and was an assistant band director for Victoria Memorial High School in Victoria, Texas.

Ms. DeBellis studied music education at the University of Central Florida, and graduated Summa Cum Laude with her Bachelor of Music Education from Troy State University, in Troy, Alabama, in 2003. She participated in many of the performing ensembles at both universities on both clarinet and trumpet. During the summer of 2001, Ms. DeBellis was a hornline member of the Boston Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps.

Under Ms. DeBellis’ direction, the Bryan High School color guard program has earned the State Championship title for the Texas Color Guard Circuit in 2008, 2010, 2014, and 2015 in various classifications. They have been consistent finalist in the Winter Guard International Regionals in Houston, Austin, San Antonio and Dallas, and have been WGI World Championships finalists in both 2012 and 2015.

Ms. DeBellis has also served on the Texas Color Guard Circuit Executive Board as treasurer for the past six years, and in this role received the Randy Julia Service Award in 2014. She has also served as the primary event organizer and host of the TCGC State Championships at Reed Arena for the past three years. She has also been on staff with the Star of Texas Music Ambassadors in the summers of 2011 and 2013, by accompanying students from all over Texas on a concert tour of Europe.

Ms. DeBellis is also a member of the Texas Music Educators Association. This year she will also assist in teaching the Spirit Independent Winter Guard from the University of Houston. When she has time off, she likes to travel to see her family in California, Rhode Island, and Florida.