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 Texas University Interscholastic League Concert and Sight-Reading Evaluation. In 2017 and 2019, the Pearland JH West Honors Band finished as a state finalist and in 2023 as a state semi-finalist in the Texas Music Educators Association Honor Band Competition. The Pearland JH West Honors Band was invited to performed at the 2024 Music for All National Concert Band Festival.
In 2017, 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, and serves as the Texas Region 19 Band Representative for the UIL/TMEA Music Advisory Committee.
Mrs. Jessica Steiner
Degrees:
University of Houston,
Bachelors of Music in Education
University of North Texas,
Masters in Clarinet Performance
Jessica Steiner is in her fifteenth year an Assistant Band Director for Pearland JH West and Sablatura MS. 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 is the primary director for the non-varsity level Symphonic Band and teaches the clarinet, saxophone, oboe and bassoon classes. 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
Bio: Matt Wood is a first-year band director. 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.