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Rosemount High School Band Staff
 Steve
Olsen - Band Director
Steve Olsen serves as a Band Director and the
Music/Art/Dance Department Coordinator at Rosemount
High School. He conducts the Wind Ensemble, Concert
Band Blue, Jazz 1 and Jazz Blue, team teaches the
Minnesota State Champion Marching Band and teaches
Clarinet, French Horn and Trumpet lessons.
Steve is a graduate of Concordia College - Moorhead,
MN and has a Masters Degree in Music Education from
the University of Minnesota. He was born in Denver,
Colorado, and started playing the trumpet while in
the 3rd grade in Aurora, Colorado in 1966! This is
Steve's 29th year of teaching and he enjoys it more
now than ever! Prior to coming to RHS in 1998, he
had taught instrumental music at: Rosemount Middle
School (1 year), Bloomington Kennedy High School (1
year) and Eden Prairie High School (12 years).
Steve has served on the Board of Directors of the
MBDA (Charter Member), MMEA (Band Vice-President)
and the MSHSL. Steve's professional affiliations
include Phi Beta Mu, IAJE, ITG, MENC, MBDA, MMEA and
MEA. In 2005 Steve was the recipient of the " Impact
Award for Distinguished Teaching" from the
University of Minnesota.
Outside of teaching music he is active as an
adjudicator for instrumental music
contests/festivals, and he is an active trumpet
performer in area churches, brass quintets and jazz
big bands. His favorite things to do are hang-out
with his family and grandsons Caden and Taylor, go
fishing, eat good food and listen/read the work of
Garrison Keillor. Steve's favorite restaurant is
Pepitos (Chicago & 48th Street in Minneapolis) the
finest spicy tex-mex food in the midwest! Steve has
three children: Kendra (age 24, lives in Los
Angeles), Lucas (age 22, student at the Dunwoody
College of Technology) and Kaylee (age 18, student
at Concordia College).
"Playing in school Bands is a great place to meet
people! I married a clarinetist I met in college
band - Natalie. She is now an instrumental music
teacher at Farmington Dodge Middle School."
 Leon
Sieve - Band Director
Leon Sieve joined the faculty of Rosemount High
School, Rosemount, Minnesota in the fall of 2002 and
is in his sixteenth year of teaching instrumental
music. A native of Adrian, Minnesota, Leon received
a Bachelor of Music Education degree from South
Dakota State University, Brookings, South Dakota in
May, 1993 and a masters degree from the American
Band College at Southern Oregon University, Ashland,
Oregon in July, 2005.
Leon has held two previous teaching assignments.
From 1993-1994, he was Director of Bands at
Holdingford Area High School, Holdingford, Minnesota
serving as the instrumental instructor for grades
seven through twelve. From 1994-2002, he was
Director of Bands at Milaca High School, Milaca,
Minnesota, directing the entire nine through twelve
instrumental music program. While teaching in
Milaca, the top concert band was highlighted at the
2002 Minnesota Music Educators Association state
convention held in the Minneapolis Convention Center
in February of that year.
Mr. Sieve's responsibilities at Rosemount High
School include the direction of two of the five
concert ensembles, woodwind specialist for the band
program, team teaching the fall marching band,
woodwind chamber ensemble, winter pep band, jazz
ensembles, solos and ensembles, and designing and
choreographing the award winning RHS Color Guard. He
is also the director of the musical "pit" for their
outstanding drama department.
Mr. Sieve was awarded a "Leadership in Educational
Excellence" award in 1997 and is the 2001 recipient
of the "Minnesota Distinguished Young Band Director
Award." He is listed in "Who's Who Among America's
Teachers" and is a member of MENC, the Minnesota
Music Educator's Association (MMEA), and the
Minnesota Band Directors Association (MBDA) and has
served as the Metro High School Representative to
the Board of Directors. He was inducted into Phi
Beta Mu in February, 2003.
 Bo
Hoover- Band Director
Bojan Hoover is excited
to join the band program at Rosemount High School in
his first year of professional teaching. Originally
from Anoka, Minnesota, he earned a bachelor of music
degree in music education and in music performance
from the University of Minnesota. In addition to
extensive training in conducting bands, Percussion
is his primary area of instrumental music expertise.
He has training and experience in low brass
instruments as a secondary instrumental focus. Mr.
Hoover will be working with students in the
Rosemount HS marching band, concert bands, and
percussion ensemble while providing lessons to
percussionists and low brass instrumentalists.
Mr. Hoover was the assistant marching band director
at Anoka High School and the director of their
winter percussion ensemble from 2006 thru 2009. He
has also taught and arranged for numerous percussion
ensembles in the state, including ensembles at
Becker High School, Henry-Sibley High School,
Irondale High School, Waconia High School, and the
indoor drumline River City Rhythm. Mr. Hoover
currently serves on the Minnesota Percussion
Association Board of Directors and organizes their
annual Day of Percussion, which reaches an audience
of nearly 700 high school and college percussion
students. In the spring of 2009, Mr. Hoover was
voted the Minnesota Percussion Association
'Instructor of the Year.'
In December 2007, Bo Hoover won the Missoula
Symphony Orchestra's Young Artist Competition and
was awarded two performances with the Montana-based
professional orchestra. Since then he has maintained
an active performance schedule both abroad and at
home, performing locally with the Northern Symphony
Orchestra and the Chamber Music Society of
Minnesota, and internationally in percussion
festivals in Germany and Costa Rica.
Bojan Hoover performed with the Blue Stars Drum and
Bugle Corps in 2003 and 2004, The Cavaliers Drum and
Bugle Corps in 2005, 2006, and 2008, and with the
Minnesota Brass Indoor Drumline in 2008 and 2009. He
was crowned Drum Corps International World Champion
in 2003 and 2006 and was awarded four separate Drum
Corps International Individual and Ensemble Gold
Medals in 2005, 2006, and 2008 in the categories of
percussion ensemble (twice), multi-percussion solo,
and keyboard solo respectively.
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