michael Feaster
Danny McGowan
daniel
piro
rob wiltbank
warren bennett
sam monroe
bethany
delaurentis
timothy
fitzpatrick
Imperial Dynasty is welcomes our new battery staff for the 2025 WGI season! With their varied experiences, they will provide drummers of all abilities the resources they need for a successful experience, from your first time picking up a drum to World Class vets!
Michael Feaster - Snare Tech
Mike Feaster is very excited to join the staff as a snare technician with Imperial Dynasty in 2025. Mike began playing drums in Chichester, Pennsylvania before moving to Delaware and joining the drumline at Middletown High School, spending four years in the marching band and indoor drumline from 2015-2019. After finding a love for the marching arts, he had the opportunity of performing with the Sunrisers Drum Corps (2018), the University of Delaware Fightin’ Blue Hen Marching Band (2019), Imperial Dynasty (2020), Carolina Crown (2021), and George Mason University Indoor Drumline (2022). Mike has also had the pleasure of teaching multiple high schools in the Delaware/Pennsylvania area, the Sunrisers (2021) and private lessons. He is currently a member of the Philadelphia Eagles Drumline. Mike is super excited to join the team and to work with a talented group of musicians and looking forward to pushing the Imperial Dynasty Organization to our next chapter!
Danny McGowan - Snare Tech
Danny is very excited to be joining the battery staff for the return of Imperial Dynasty in 2025! He has taught high school groups in South Jersey from 2021 to present, serving as the a battery tech for Kingsway High School’s Indoor Percussion program, and percussion caption head at Cherokee High School. He also just finished teaching Fusion Core’s snareline for the 2024 season. His marching career consists of Raiders Drum Corps 2018-2020, Caballeros 2021, UP2 2020-2022, Bushwackers 2022. Finally aging out at Music City Drum Corps in 2023, and United Percussion world, where he spent 2023 and 2024 seasons on the snareline.
Daniel piro - Snare Tech
Daniel is thrilled to start his first season with Imperial Dynasty!
Daniel’s marching career started at Brien McMahon High School (2015-2019) in Norwalk, Connecticut, where he instantly fell in love with the marching arts. He went on to march with the Connecticut Hurricanes Drum & Bugle Corps (2017-2018), 7th Regiment Drum & Bugle Corps (2016, 2019), River City Rhythm Drum & Bugle Corps (2021), Spartans Drum & Bugle Corps (2022), and Spartans Indoor Percussion (2022-2023). After aging out, Daniel has continued his marching career with the Bushwackers Drum & Bugle Corps (2023-2024). Outside of marching, Daniel has also previously taught the drumlines at Merrill High School in Wisconsin and Norwalk High School in Connecticut. Currently, he teaches the drumlines at Kingsway Regional High School and Deptford High School in New Jersey.
Aside from the marching arts, Daniel received his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Connecticut. He has recently been hired as a mechanical engineer for a company based out of Southern New Jersey.
rob wilbank - Snare tech
A Delaware native, Rob jumped into the marching arts in high school before becoming a blue chip member of Jersey Surf where he marched tenors, bass, and snare from 1990-1994. He was the captain of the University of Delaware snareline, and also marched snare in the undefeated drumline of the Westshoremen Drum Corps out of Harrisburg, PA, securing a 2nd place corps finish at DCA World Championships in 1995.
After his drum corps career, Rob performed with a number of ensembles, including the Diamond State Concert Band, Brandywine Pops Orchestra, and the Dover Symphony while also playing guitar, mandolin, tin whistle, and bodhrán up and down the tri-state area with a band that focused on the traditional Irish idiom.
Always loyal his marching roots, he returned to perform with the Westshoremen Alumni Corps in 2009, and played snare for the first iteration of the Philadelphia Eagles Drumline in 2010, as well as with the Baltimore Ravens drumline in 2016.
Rob has been the Percussion Caption Head and Arranger for several Delaware high school music programs over his 30 year career as a music educator, securing numerous championship titles, and is a member of the National Judges Association. He holds his Master of Education in Instructional Technology from Forth Hays State University.
WArren BENNETT Jr - BAss Drum Tech
Residing in Middletown, DE, Bass Technician Warren Bennett, is a returning Alumnus of Imperial Dynasty & graduate of the University of Delaware. His experience includes many levels of the activity. All years of high school, Imperial Dynasty (’19), University of Delaware Drumline (’19-’22), The Long Island Sunrisers (’18) & The Bushwackers (’19). Also including World Class ensembles such as George Mason Indoor Drumline (’20-’22) & Carolina Crown (’21). The marching arts has always been a passionate past time of his, and continues to add more and more memories as the years pass by. Warren is very enthused to work upon a highly accoladed instructional staff and to pass the torch to the next group of determined individuals.
Sam Monroe - BAss Drum Tech
Along with marching four years of his high school marching band and indoor programs, Sam has taught at several schools in Chester and Montgomery County, PA.
His drum corps and indoor experience includes Aftermath Indoor, Bushwackers, Fusion Core, White Sabers, United Percussion 2 and United Percussion World.
Sam has a passion for drumming that shines through even when he’s not in front of the line teaching. He is absolutely ecstatic to be joining the team at ID for 2025!
Bethany DeLaurentis - Cymbal Tech
From Ambler, PA, Bethany DeLaurentis started her marching career in 2014 with Aftermath Percussion at age 12. She grew up in the marching community, as both her parents marched drum corps in the 1980s.
Her marching cymbal experience includes WGI independent groups Aftermath Percussion (2014-2017), Imperial Dynasty (2020), and Cap City 2 (2022). Bethany was cymbal section leader at George Mason University Indoor Drumline (2023-2024) for both years she marched. While at GMU she applied and was accepted into the WGI Future Leaders Program in the class of 2023. Bethany marched Fusion “Core” (2017-2018) in the DCA circuit, and DCI with Jersey Surf (2019) and Colts (2022-2023). This accumulates into a marching career of eleven years.
In the past, Bethany taught high school programs in the northeast Philadelphia area. During the summer of 2022 she taught the cymbal line at Shippensburg University Marching Band during their summer season. While living in Virginia she taught the Forest Park Indoor program in Woodbridge, VA for the 2024 season. She has been teaching at Central Bucks West High School for both their marching band and indoor percussion programs since 2022.
Bethany is excited to return to Imperial Dynasty as a member of the instructional staff.
Timothy fitzpatrick - Cymbal Tech
Tim started his marching career at Sterling High School and the Raiders, marching all through his high school years. He marched cymbals at UP2 in their inaugural year in 2019 and Fusion core in 2019, before making UP World in 2020. Post pandemic, Tim capped off his marching career with 3 seasons with the fabled Bushwackers “Bush Plates” from 2021-2023 all as section leader, and then taught drum corps at Fusion core this past summer.
Tim is excited and honored to help educate the next generation of cymbal players, and he wants you to bring your dopest visuals to auditions!