Hey Alumni!
My name is Josh Faber and I’m super excited to be your 2025 Drum Major! I’m a Junior trombone player from Livingston, New Jersey, studying Computer Science and Operations Research with a minor in Math in the College of Engineering. When I’m not at a football game or music rehearsal, I work on the Cornell University Autonomous Underwater Vehicle project team helping to build and code a submarine that can compete in unmanned challenges.
As 2023 and 2024 Bone Section Leader, it’s been a blast watching the band grow and seeing underclassmen find their home here in the BRMB. I can’t wait to meet a new class of freshmen and new members in the fall and help them become a part of our amazing community. Recruitment and retention are so important and ensuring that the band is a welcoming, exciting, and uplifting place to be is crucial. Head Manager Emily Mawhinney and I, along with the rest of Bandstaph and the rest of the band, are already hard at work to keep it that way and I’m confident that, come fall, we’ll have a great new group joining our ranks.
I’m equally excited to watch our current members continue to flourish. This year, our awesome Section Leaders have been hosting a number of sectionals, instruction sessions, and workshops to help members of the band learn instruments they might be interested in but unfamiliar with. The enthusiasm members have brought to both learning and teaching has truly embodied the spirit of the BRMB.
The Spring season is getting underway with the start of music rehearsals in preparation for Giving Day, Admitted Students Days, Dragon Day, Spring Concert, and more! I hope to work on a number of songs we haven’t played in a while and bring our Big Red energy back to them. The Show Committee and I are also very excited about our new repertoire. They came ready with some fantastic ideas for show themes and songs and I can’t wait to rehearse them and see them come to life.
Looking ahead, this upcoming football season promises to be a great one. There’s tons to look forward to, including trips to Yale, Harvard, and UPenn. I’ve never been more excited to get back out onto Schoellkopf! I can’t wait to see you all and meet even more of you at Reunion this summer and Homecoming in early October!
Go Big Red!
Josh Faber ‘26