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Jorim E. Reid
NCCU Director of Bands
Professor Jorim Edgar Reid graduated from Miami Norland Senior High School in Miami, Florida, where he was a student of the renowned bandmaster, Kenneth Rudolph Tolbert.
Professor Jorim Edgar Reid graduated from Miami Norland Senior High School in Miami, Florida, where he was a student of the renowned bandmaster, Kenneth Rudolph Tolbert.
He then graduated from Florida A&M University earning a Bachelor of Science degree in music education (1999) with piano as his major instrument. There he privately studied arranging, composition, and film scoring with Professor Lindsey B. Sarjeant and Dr. Marty Robinson. Reid served the band program as principal oboist for wind ensemble and symphonic bands and head drum major, saxophone, and student arranger for marching band.
He later received his masters degree in music education (2000) from the Florida State University School of Music with oboe as his major instrument. There he studied arranging and composition under Professor Brian Gaber and Professor Bill Peterson. Jorim is currently studying for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University (2009, DMA). Reid is on faculty of music department and serves as director of bands at North Carolina Central University. He is also advisor to Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity and Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority.
He later received his masters degree in music education (2000) from the Florida State University School of Music with oboe as his major instrument. There he studied arranging and composition under Professor Brian Gaber and Professor Bill Peterson. Jorim is currently studying for a Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Boston University (2009, DMA). Reid is on faculty of music department and serves as director of bands at North Carolina Central University. He is also advisor to Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity and Tau Beta Sigma National Honorary Band Sorority.
Mr. James O. Seda
Director of Bands
James O. Seda is currently the Director of Bands at Southwest Dekalb High School. He is a product of the Atlanta Public School System, having graduated from Southside Comprehensive High School. Mr. Seda received his Bachelors of Science Degree in Music Education from Florida A&M University. While there, he studied conducting with Dr. William P. Foster and Dr. Julian E. White. He was also in the trumpet studio of Dr. Marty Robinson. Mr. Seda is currently enrolled in the Masters of Music Education Program at Northern Illinois University in Dekalb, Illinois.
Mr. Seda has been the Director of Bands at Southwest Dekalb High School since 2001. Prior to that he served as Assistant Director of Bands at Chapel Hill Middle School for two years, the primary feeder school to Southwest Dekalb High School, also assisting with the band program at Southwest Dekalb simultaneously. Mr. Seda is a member of Kappa Kappa Psi National Honorary Band Fraternity, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity, The International Trumpet Guild, Georgia Music Educators Association, Music Educators National Conference, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the Screen Actor's Guild and MACE. Mr. Seda was The STAR Teacher for Southwest Dekalb High School in 2005-2006 and has been recognized and honored by Who's Who Among America's Teachers multiple times.
While attending Florida A&M University, Mr. Seda was a very active musician. He held the principal trumpet chair in the FAMU Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, and the lead trumpet chair in the FAMU Jazz Ensemble. As a member of the world famous 'Marching 100' Mr. Seda served as trumpet section leader for two years, as well as being elected business manager, vice-president, and president in consecutive years.
Mr. Seda has performed in Paris, France, The Montreaux Jazz Festival in Montreaux, Switzerland and the North Seas Jazz Festival in The Haag, Holland. He has also performed in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. Television and radio features are also to his credit as CNN displayed his talents in a television documentary on the life of jazz musician Jesse Stone. He has done studio sessions for television and radio commercials, as well as short films and movies. Mr. Seda also worked on the 20th Century Fox motion picture DRUMLINE as a music arranger, band organizer, instrumentalist, and actor extra.
The Southwest Dekalb High School highly acclaimed marching band is 230+ musicians and is performing in its second Tournament of Roses Parade (2006, 2011).
Mr. Seda's and Southwest Dekalb Marching Panther Band assistant directors of bands are: Mr. Steven L. Cooper (West Palm Beach, FL), Florida A&M University; Mr. Demetrius Hubert (Atlanta, GA) - Director of Percussion, Florida A&M University; Mr. Byron Ellie Jackson (Decatur, GA), Staff Assistant/ Director of Drum Majors, Florida A&M University; and Ms. Stasha Dion Ogletree (Atlanta, GA), Dancing Diva Director/Choreographer, Albany State University.
