Welcome to the website of the Pearland Junior High West Bands! The information in these pages will help you succeed in band, but please contact a band director if you have any questions. Go Wildcatters!
Mrs. Meredith Bishop
Degrees:
Oklahoma State University,
Bachelors of Music in Education
Honors College Degree
Meredith Bishop is the Director of Bands for Pearland Junior High West and Sablatura Middle School in Pearland, Texas. She graduated in 2006 from Oklahoma State University with a Bachelor of Music Education and Honors College Degree. Her primary instrument is the French horn and secondary instrument is the flute. She currently teaches the varsity level Honors Band, beginning horn, trumpet, and flute classes, and serves as the electives team department head.
Mrs. Bishop began teaching in Pearland ISD in 2006 at the Pearland Ninth Grade Center which became Dawson High School the following year. She helped open Dawson High School as the assistant band director, then followed her passion teaching younger students and moved to Pearland Junior High East. She earned the Head Director position in 2012 and has served as Director of Bands for Pearland JH West and Sablatura MS since then. In addition, she was instrumental in creating the Pearland ISD Instrument Inventory Management Systems and has served as the District Instrument Inventory Coordinator for nearly twenty years.
Mrs. Bishop’s bands consistently earn first division sweepstakes ratings at the UIL Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation. In 2017, 2019, 2023, 2025 the Pearland JH West Honors Band finished as a state finalist and semi-finalist in the Texas Music Educators Association Honor Band Competition. The Pearland JH West Honors Band has won the "Best-in-class" recognition for various music festivals, performed at the 2024 Music for All National Concert Band Festival in Indianapolis, IN and was recently selected to perform at The Midwest Clinic in December 2025.
In 2017 and 2025, Mrs. Bishop was named the Pearland Junior High West Teacher of the Year. She is an active member of the Texas Music Adjudicators Association, Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Bandmasters Association, serves as the Texas Region 19 Band Representative for the UIL/TMEA Music Advisory Committee and Region 19 Beltway Zone middle school coordinator.
Mrs. Jessica Steiner
Degrees:
University of Houston,
Bachelors of Music in Education
University of North Texas,
Masters in Clarinet Performance
Mrs. Steiner is the primary director for the non-varsity level Symphonic Band and teaches the clarinet, saxophone, oboe and bassoon classes. In 2007, she graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree and in 2009, from the University of North Texas with a Master’s Degree in Clarinet Performance.
Mrs. Steiner started teaching at Pearland JH West and Sablatura MS. in 2010. She absolutely loves working in this community and is proud to live and raise her family in Pearland.
Her bands have consistently received first division ratings at the Texas University Interscholastic League Concert and Sigh-Reading Evaluation. In 2023, her band placed first at the Shadow Creek Showcase of Sound Festival in the Non-Varsity division.
Mrs. Steiner is a member of the Texas Music Educators Association, the Texas Bandmasters Association, provisional member of the Texas Music Adjudicators Association, and has served as the percussion organizer for the Region 19 Band on multiple occasions.
Mr. Matthew Wood
Degrees:
University of North Texas, Bachelors of Music Education
Matt Wood began teaching at Pearland Junior High West and Sablatura Middle School in 2024. He teaches Trombone and Euphonium/Tuba beginner classes at Sablatura Middle School and conducts the Concert Band 1 and Concert Band 2 at PJH West.
Mr. Wood earned his bachelor’s degree in 2023 from the University of North Texas. He grew up in Grapevine, Texas, where he went to Grapevine High School. Mr. Wood student taught at L.D. Bell High School and Central Junior High. After graduating, he was a long-term substitute for the band program at Kennemer Middle School in Duncanville ISD. Mr. Wood is an active member of the Texas Music Educators Association and the Texas Bandmasters Association.