The work is the resume.
Twenty years. Seventy-five programs. State championships on two continents. One designer doing the work — not a team, not a catalog pull, not a template with your name swapped in. Here's the story.
White Mage Music started in 2004 with a single marching band in central Pennsylvania. No grand launch, no big announcement — just a program that needed a better show and a designer willing to build it from scratch. That band had one of its best competitive seasons in years. Word got around.
Twenty years later, we've worked with over 75 programs across the United States and Europe. The philosophy hasn't changed: build shows that are right for the specific band in front of you, not whatever was trending last season.
Our clients compete — and win — across UIL, ISSMA, SCBDA, BOA, Tournament of Bands, Cavalcade of Bands, DCI, DCA, and Drum Corps Europe. In recent years, programs we've designed for have taken State championships in Texas, Indiana, South Carolina, and across the northeast corridor.
Repeated UIL Area Finalists in 4A, 5A, and 6A. ISSMA State Champions. SCBDA State Champions. World, Open, and Regional Championship-winning color guards.
We also bring over a decade of design and teaching experience from inside the drum corps world — DCI, DCA, and DCE. That experience has a direct effect on how we write and how we think about competitive design. It shows up in the work.
DCI · DCA · Drum Corps Europe · WGI · TCGC · TIA · KIDA
Beyond marching band show design, White Mage Music handles audio design and sound engineering for the fall season and audio editing for color guards in the indoor season. Several World, Open, and Regional Championship-winning color guard programs have used our audio work.
Good music deserves a mix that holds up in a gymnasium at volume. That's what we build.
White Mage Music is the exclusive publisher of concert music by Dr. Ryan J. Williams — composer, educator, and the person doing most of the work around here. His catalog spans wind ensemble and concert band, chamber music, solo literature, and works with electronics.
We're video game people. In RPGs, the White Mage is the healer — the one making sure everyone else on the team has what they need to succeed, while the other players get all the glory. That's the job. We do everything we can to make your band successful, and when championships happen, you take the credit.
That's the deal.