VISUAL STAFF
ROBERT PETERSON
Visual Caption Head
Robert Peterson is a marching arts visual educator and drill writer based out of Mesa, Arizona. Originally from New Jersey, he has taught and designed for various high school programs between AZ and NJ including Tolleson Union High School (AZ), Casa Grande HS Indoor Percussion (AZ), Bridgewater-Raritan HS Marching Band and Indoor Guard (NJ), Roxbury HS Marching Band and Indoor Percussion (NJ), and Monroe HS Marching Band (NJ). Robert currently teaches the marching bands at Gilbert High School and Mountain Ridge High School in Glendale, Arizona.
During the summer months, Robert teaches movement at The Academy Drum & Bugle Corps and has previously worked with several other DCI groups. These include Music City Drum & Bugle Corps, The Oregon Crusaders Drum and Bugle Corps, and Fusion “Core” Drum & Bugle Corps. As a performer, Robert marched with the Cadets from 2014-2015 and the Cadets2 in 2013
Robert is a graduate student at Arizona State University, pursuing a Masters of Music in Performance Pedagogy. Outside of his coursework Robert stays involved with ASU by teaching at the school’s marching band, The Sun Devil Marching Band. Prior to his graduate studies, Robert was an elementary music teacher in New Jersey.
KAITLYN MISCH
Vis Tech/Choreographer
Kaitlyn Misch is a visual and dance-focused marching band educator entering her first year of teaching at Breakthrough Indoor Percussion. As an Arizona native, she was very involved in the marching arts throughout high school and college. She has marched three years of the Sun Devil Marching Band on trumpet and marched four years of Breakthrough Indoor Percussion, in which she was on the leadership team for both.
The past few years Kaitlyn has taught at Mountain Ridge High School and at Linea Indoor Percussion as a visual technician.
Kaitlyn holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Minor in Dance that she received from Arizona State University. When she is not doing band she works as a pharmacy technician and is pursuing a master’s degree in the medical field..
