Jack Yonce
Conductor of Pikes Peak Winds
Mr. Jack Yonce is well known to music educators throughout the State of Colorado. His outstanding work at both Gateway High School in Aurora, and, most recently, Cheyenne Mountain High School in Colorado Springs, has earned Mr. Yonce membership in the Colorado Music Educators Association Hall of Fame, Colorado Bandmasters Association Hall of Fame, Phi Beta Mu “Outstanding Bandmaster Award”, and the Inspire Award from the CSYSA. His school groups have been selected to perform thirteen times at the Colorado Music Educators Association annual conference at the Broadmoor Hotel. In addition, his groups have performed in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Meyerson Center (Dallas), and Japan for the World Expo in 2005.