Randy Sifuentes

Randy Sifuentes began his musical career in 2002 in his hometown Edinburg, Texas, located in the Rio Grande Valley region. Being surrounded by a supportive community of the arts, he grew up loving band seeing his older sibling take part in it successfully and was blessed to begin his studies under Eduardo Trevino. Many of Sifuentes's instructional strategies stem from Trevino pushing his students to always raise their own personal bar of achievement. 

Because of Trevino's guidance, Sifuentes began his performing career early by performing with Revolution Drum & Bugle Corps in 2008. At Revolution, Sifuentes studied under Rachel Sitka, Peter Hilborn, Maverick Peterson, and Carlos Botello. While at Revolution, he competed in the open class I&E competition earning 2nd place on marimba. After learning a wealth of knowledge for three seasons with Revolution he went on to perform with The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps for his last two drum corps seasons (2011-2012). After high school, he attended Texas A&M Commerce with Brian Zator from 2009-2013, then attended Middle Tennessee State with Lalo and Julie Davila from 2014-2015. He currently attends Texas Tech University during his summers to complete his Masters of Education. 

From 2016 to 2018, Sifuentes was an assistant band director for Sharyland North Junior High and percussion consultant for Sharyland Pioneer High School in Mission, TX. While at Sharyland, his students were fluent on all accounts of percussion ranging from concert, marching, jazz, and world studies. While with Sharyland North, he conducted the 3rd and 2nd bands at the UIL Concert and Sight Reading competition and earned a sweepstakes rating with both bands. Along with his concert bands, his percussion ensemble pushed itself to earn the state championship title from the TECA circuit in 2018. The following year he returned to his alma mater, Economedes HS, and ran the indoor winds program earning the state title for the season. Sifuentes has been conducting percussion clinician tours around the U.S. since 2014. He teaches privately to ages 5­-18, performs at percussion festivals, judges solo and marching competitions, and arranges for marching bands around the country. He has taught battery and front ensemble to various middle schools, high schools, universities, and drum corps. Since 2012 he has been on staff with Genesis DBC, Music City DBC, and Madison Scouts DBC. He is currently endorsed with Innovative Percussion and Mapex/Majestic. 

His awards include 2nd place at the 2010 DCI I&E solo marimba competition, 1st place at the 2012 PAS International Marching Marimba Competition, the Avedis Zildjian Award from The Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps, and earning High Percussion with The Cavaliers in 2011. His influences stem from studying under Eduardo Trevino, Lalo Davila, Julie Davila, Brian Zator, and marimba virtuoso Keiko Abe.

Sifuentes currently resides in Edinburg, TX teaching the Economedes High School band program.