HISTORY
POW Percussion started as “Pulse Open” in 2011 receiving the bronze medal in the Independent Open class. The next season the ensemble was promoted to World Class and was a finalist its first year - hence the name “Pulse Open World,” POW. The ensemble has remained in the world class division ever since.
POW PERCUSSION
PLACEMENT HISTORY
2025 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place “Letters to My Younger Self”
2024 PIW: WGI 10th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Drawn to the Flame”
2023 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Asylum”
2022 PIW: WGI 10th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Wonderland”
2020 PIW: Season cancelled due to COVID - “Jekyll and Hyde”
2019 PIW: WGI 8th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Dia De Los Muertos”
2018 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “The Fate of Kings”
2017 PIW: WGI 11th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Caged”
2016 PIW: WGI 13th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “Hands”
2015 PIW: WGI 12th Place || SCPA 4th Place - “What Do I Desire?”
2014 PIW: WGI 10th Place || SCPA Bronze - “Fahrenheit 451”
2013 PIW: WGI 17th Place (11th place before timing penalty) || SCPA Bronze - “Return to Innocence”
2012 PIW: WGI 10th place || SCPA Bronze - “Obsessed”
2011 PIO: WGI Bronze || SCPA Gold - “One Foot in Front of the Other”
POW PERCUSSION 2025 MEMBERS
SNARES
Alan Coburn
Anousone Visoutsy
Kyle Arnold
Vincent Huizar
Jonathan Truong
Samuel Doyle
Sanji Nagata
Maddox Lister
Matthew London
TENORS
Ethan Greek
Dominic Ferrari
Nathan Proctor
Owen Islas
BASS
Kevin Phan
Eric Lee
Aiden Gamez
Melody Wong
Andrew Tan
CYMBALS
Matthew Guerrero
Anaka Poliakon
David Vu
Luis Rodriguez
Kiersten Velasquez
Calvin Uclaray
FRONT ENSEMBLE
Nicholas Rodriguez
Alex Parviz
Cristian Roca
Darren Wu
Matthew Spencer
Oscar Chiang
Roger Trok
Samantha Gash
Ivy Quan
Frank Buma
Emil Bugarin
Vivi Nguyen
Nury Le
Sean Kim
Melody Gonzales
Sami Te
Eric Ko
Visual
Kristen Hagihara
Alexis Piñon
Jayden Martinez
Angie Li
Kira Liu
Andrew Loera
Rick Zhu
Kayla Quach
Paul Stewart
Rylan Ravago