Ms. Arwen Hernandez, Band Director

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Shawn Hartmann started her color guard career as a member of Fantasia and  marched with them for 3 years.  She has been teaching color guard for almost 30 years throughout Southern California.  Shawn has experience teaching middle school to high school color guard for winter guard, parade, and field season.  She has been teaching the color guard at Poly for six years and is  proud to continue the excellence that was started before her.  We have a great color guard staff at Poly that strives to make all members improve and reach their full potential.   Shawn has also been a teacher in RUSD for over 25  years and  has been married for 22 years with 4 amazing boys.

Tate Kinsella is an active drum set player, and percussionist in the Southern California area. Since discovering his passion for music at an early age, Tate has been pursuing music relentlessly. Since his recent graduation from the University of Redlands School of Music with a B.M. in Drum set Performance, Tate has studied with some of the greatest musicians in SoCal such as: Joel Taylor, Dan Schnell, Nicholas Semrad, Bill Schlitt, David Scott, Yuri Inoo, Scott Worthington, and Jody Fisher. Besides his studies, Tate has also worked as a touring, session, and Live drumset player performing with artists and groups such as : Tru-Lee, CARLY, Sophia Bollman (as seen on NBC’s The Voice), The national tour of “How to succeed in business without really trying”, Joe Bagg, and his new trio project Polyfeels. Tate has also been actively teaching private lessons and high school ensembles for the last 5 years. He currently serves as the Percussion Caption Head and Arranger for San Gorgonio High School, Battery Manager for Riverside Poly High School, Kaiser High School, and Riverside North High School. He just recently took the position of Percussion and drum set head for the Keyboard Arts School of Music in Wrightwood.