UPCOMING EVENTS:

Thursday April 26th - Saturday April 28th - High School All State Jazz Band in Aberdeen
Tuesday, May 1st - Elementary Tour for Jazz Band, Drumline and Winter Guard
Friday, May 4th - Palace City Jam at the Highland Conference Center
Thursday, May 10th - Pops Concert
Sunday, May 20th - GRADUATION

Ryan Stahle, Director of Bands

Welcome to our band's website!  I am a 1992 graduate of MHS!  I went to college at the University of South Dakota where I completed a music education degree in 1997.   I started my teaching career in the Waterville-Elysian-Morristown district south of Minneapolis.  Soon after finishing my first year teaching, I became the assistant director at Farmington High School (Minneapolis suburban school district).  In 2000, I left teaching briefly to work in the tech industry in Sioux Falls.  In 2003, I moved back to my hometown of Mitchell and have been the director of bands at Mitchell High School for 14 years.  I am the director of the South Dakota All-State Jazz Band organization, serve on the music advisory committee for the South Dakota High School Activities Association and am a member of the South Dakota Bandmasters Association.  My groups at MHS have traveled to New York City in 2005/2011, Disney World in 2009/2013 and San Francisco in 2007.  

I have been married to my lovely wife Nicole 19 years (our 20th anniversary is coming up this summer!) and have two awesome kids - Hunter (sophomore at MHS) and Atlanta (8th grader at MMS).  I also have two black lab dogs named Cooper and Chloe!