Music

 

Mr. Stichler

Rich Stichler is director of bands at Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School, and was director of bands at Ridgeland High School in Rossville from 1993 to 1999.  Before coming to Georgia, he taught band and orchestra in Arizona, California, and Nevada.  Under his direction the LFO Bands have received consistent superior ratings for marching, concert, and jazz in Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee.  The Symphonic Band performed, by invitation, at the 2001 University of Georgia High School Music Festival.  Stichler served as District Seven Band Division chair and organizer of the GMEA All-State Jazz Ensemble from 2002-2007.  He maintains a busy schedule as a professional trombonist in the Chattanooga and Atlanta areas and has also free-lanced and taught privately in Arizona, California, Washington, D.C., and Las Vegas.  He currently is adjunct professor of trombone/low brass at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.    He was a member of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Marching Band, the 1986 Disneyland All-American College Band, and the 15th Air Force Band of the Golden West at March Air Force Base in California from 1987 to 1991.  He earned the B.Mus. degree from the University of Arizona and the M.M.Ed. degree and Ed.S. degree in educational technology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.