Educational Services from Ted Brown Music
Are you renting a band or orchestra instrument from Ted Brown Music, but your school is far from the nearest store? Save the time, gas, and stress, and let our educational services representatives help you! Our reps can return or exchange your rental instrument, deliver and pickup an instrument for repair, provide necessary accessories (like reeds, valve oil, or books), and answer any questions about the use and maintenance of the instrument.
Ted Brown Music’s Educational Services has become a fixture at many schools across the state. If you see the TED BROWN MUSIC banner at your school, we’re there to offer great service on your rental instrument and help bring the joy of music to every student’s life. It’s our passion!
Western Washington
Jan Showalter
Jan stated his career as an Educational Service Representative in 1993, and has been with Ted Brown Music since 2001. Coming from a family of musical educators and studying Music Education at University of Wyoming and Arizona State University, Jan’s passion for music education runs deep.
Jan specializes in high brass instruments (trumpet, cornet, French horn, flugelhorn, mellophone, alto horn) and plays trumpet and flugelhorn.
Jake Casberg
Jake obtained his Bachelors of Music Education in 2002 from Pacific Lutheran University. He was the High School Band director at North Mason until 2007. He has been an Educational Services Representative for Ted Brown Music since 2008.
Jake is also a woodwind specialist and vocalist performing in a number of ensembles in the Seattle-Tacoma area.
Amy D
Amy D began her career at Ted Brown Music helping musicians as the Lessons and Studio Coordinator but her passion for music education has led her to take on the role of road representative. Her belief in school music programs stems from being raised in a music educator family where her mother taught piano and her father had a 30-plus year career as a junior high band director. She was also involved in school choir, jazz choir, and church choir. Through early elementary school she took piano lessons and later flute. She was involved in honor and marching band through high school. She also gained valuable music education knowledge by participating in the Birch Bay Band Workshop, founded in part by her parents for which she continues yearly. She participated in the American Legion Band and the Bellevue Community Band under her father’s baton, original president of the Washington State Association of Community Bands.
Today, she still plays her flute in a Tacoma community band. Amy D’s Elementary Education degree from WSU and 22 years experience as a road representative give her a unique skill set and make her a valuable resource for the school music programs she serves.
Pat Van Haren
Pat Van Haren is a Western Washington native and is looking forward to serving as your Ted Brown Educational Services Representative. Pat has a long history of serving musicians and music programs in the Puget Sound area. He was awarded a “Friend of Music” award from the Valley Region of the WMEA for outstanding customer service.
In addition to helping get students started on their musical journey through band and orchestra instrument rentals, Pat can also provide any accessories you need to keep your program moving ahead, as well as background brass and woodwinds and concert percussion. He can also offer expert fitting and free delivery of concert attire for your group and provide free delivery on your sheet music orders. Pat views this relationship as a partnership between you and Ted Brown Music with the goal to help your program be as successful as possible!
Pat’s primary instrument is the tuba, which he plays in the Tacoma Concert Band, The Harbor Winds Concert Band, and the Tacoma Community College Concert Band. He has also performed with the Gig Harbor Peninsula Civic Orchestra, The Puyallup Valley Brass and his own quintet The Brass. Whenever the opportunity arises he’s glad to work with your low brass sections, maybe even play along!
Isaac Gartung
Isaac Gartung graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music from Southern Nazarene University in Bethany, Oklahoma. He has come from a family of music educators. Isaac has also taught music in Alaska for Elementary Education. Isaac specializes with instruments in the Brass family, specifically the Trumpet and Euphonium. Since moving back to Washington a couple years ago, he has been leading music for a local church in Tacoma, Washington.
Erin Happenny
Hailing from Auburn, Washington, Erin currently serves Washington’s thriving music education programs in the Kitsap Peninsula. Whether your needs are equipment, concert attire, sheet music, rentals, or repair, Erin is passionate about supporting you and your students so that you may all enjoy success in music.
Erin’s primary instrument is flute, and she holds a Master of Music in Performance & Literature from the University of Illinois (2015), and a Bachelor of Music in Performance from the University of Puget Sound (2013). Music has taken her near and far, in performances with the Seattle Chamber Music Society, Seattle Flute Society’s Emerging Artists recital, University of Puget Sound Jacobsen series, Symphony Orchestra Academy of the Pacific, Madeline Island Chamber Music festival, and the Festival de Flautistas in Quito, Ecuador. Erin's competitive accomplishments include 2nd prize in the Kujala International Piccolo Competition, and performances in the National Flute Association Young Artist (2015) and Piccolo Artist (2014) competitions. Erin is Co-Principal Flute of the Bainbridge Symphony, and teaches flute at Tacoma Community College and the Federal Way School of Music. Erin recently taught on the faculty of Evergreen Music Festival, serves on the boards of the Seattle Flute Society and Puget Sound Youth Wind Ensemble, and is an in-demand adjudicator. Ask her about a complimentary flute masterclass for your students!
Loren Brown
Loren Brown is a long-time resident of the South Sound. He moved to Washington in 1983 from Arkansas, and has lived in Olympia since 1996.
Loren comes from a large musical family. His mother plays piano and organ and taught piano for many years. Most of his family, including his own four sons, played in school bands growing up -- trumpet, trombone, french horn, clarinet, sax, drums and even the accordion.
Loren’s main instrument is Trombone, and his experience playing in high school marching band, orchestra and jazz band helped develop important values like pride, teamwork, discipline, dedication and commitment to excellence.
Currently he plays the Cajon, sings and makes other musical noises with lots of gadgets in an acoustic duo, mostly just for kicks, but it’s good fun.
Loren has a degree in Sociology from BYU-Idaho, and for him it’s always been about the relationships. He’s looking forward to working closely with you and your students to grow and strengthen your music programs.
Eastern Washington
David Hanes
David Hanes grew up in Springfield, OH then later moved to Olympia, WA with his family. Coming from a musical family, David began piano lessons at an early age to begin his musical lifestyle. Under the direction of Greg Allison at Washington Middle School and Scott Pearson at Olympia High School David continued to grow in his trumpet and piano studies.
David attended Eastern Washington University to earn his degree in International Affairs and graduated in 2010. While at EWU, David played piano in the EWU Jazz Ensemble 1, EWU Jazz Combo 1, and studied jazz with Don Goodwin, Rob Tapper, and Todd Deljudice. Beginning in the fall of 2015 David begun teaching two jazz ensembles at Hanford High School. David also enjoys composing his own music, teaches many jazz piano lessons in the tri-cities, and plays bass in his church worship band weekly.
David is the Educational Services Representative for Ted Brown Music based out of Richland, WA. He has been in this position since June of 2013 and has continued to build positive relationships between Ted Brown Music and the music teachers, students, and school districts. He and his wife, Heidi, the director of bands at Pasco High School live in Pasco with their German shepherd, Melvin and cat, Chloe.
Austin Carl
Andrew Samuelson
Andrew Samuelson has lived all over the world and the United States. He grew up overseas in China and Singapore. As a child, he had a natural curiosity in the drums after observing local ethnic music. Eventually his family settled in Silverdale, WA where Andrew joined the school’s band program. Andrew eventually decided to pursue music education after graduating from Central Kitsap High School in 2014.
Andrew attended Central Washington University and graduated in 2019 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music. He played in many of the school’s ensembles such as the Symphony Orchestra with Nikolas Caoile, Wind Ensemble with Lewis Norfleet, Symphonic Winds with Mark Lane, Marching Band with Larry Gookin, and Percussion Ensemble with Mark Goodenberger. While at Central, Andrew studied in the schools music education program and participated greatly in NAfME and WMEA. Andrew also taught high school marching band.
Ted Brown Music has been very familiar to Andrew for a long time. Originally being a customer as a student in a school served by them, to eventually working with rental season crews and instrument repair in the Silverdale store. Some of his hobbies include the Mariners, aviation, and hugging his family’s goldendoodle, Aspen.