Richard Kearns (Burleson Centennial HS)

It was Monday, January 21, 1985. In that special week of January
people in US were listening to "Like A Virgin" by Madonna and in
the UK, "I Want To Know What Love Is" by Foreigner was in the top 5
hits. "The Breakfast Club", "Witness," & "Heaven Help Us" were
popular movies of the year. And on the day of the second
inauguration of President Ronald Reagan took place, Richard Kearns
was born unto this world in Greenville, TX, the “cotton capital of
the world!” Richard Kearns serves as an Assistant Director,
Percussion Instructor at Centennial High School in the Burleson
Independent School District in Burleson, TX. He was previously the
Percussion Director of Azle High School in Azle, TX where the Azle
Drumline and Percussion Section won numerous awards including
Lonestar Classic Champions, NTCA Champions, the 2014 TCGC Perc
Scholastic Open Champions and were Open Class Semi-Finalists at the
WGI World Championships in Dayton, Ohio. His abilities as a
conceptual and visual designer for Marching Band and Indoor
Drumline has turned out many crowd-pleasing productions, including
the 2016 WGI Perc Ind Open Gold Medalists, Vigilantes Indoor
Percussion, and the 2017 Perc Scholastic Open Gold Medalists and
the 2018 & 2019 Perc Scholastic World 6th place Finalists,
Burleson Centennial High School. Prior to Azle, Richard was the
Percussion Director at Palestine High School, as well as
Battery/Drumline Coordinator at Tyler Junior College. Upon joining
the Palestine Band Staff in 2008, the PHS Percussion Program
received numerous awards in the TCGC & NTCA Indoor Drumline
Circuits, Lonestar & Plano Drumline Competitions. In 2011, the
Palestine Indoor Drumline was the TCGC Open Class Champion. His
instructional contributions for TJC helped lead the group to their
WGI PIO World Championship in 2008, promotion to WGI World Class,
and becoming consecutive Finalists at the WGI World Championships.
Richard attended Tyler Junior College and was section leader for
the TJC Drumline. After attending TJC, Richard continued his
studies at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas where his
focus was Music Education. Richard’s drum corps performance
experience was with the Capital Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps and
Magic of Orlando.  He later returned to the staff of Capital
Regiment as the Snare Technician.