Staff
John Burn
Director of Bands
John Burn has been the Director of Bands at Homestead High School since 1991. As a Homestead student, he played trumpet in the Marching Band and was Drum Major his Senior year. Right after high school he played with the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum Corps. He continued his schooling, majoring in Music Education at UCLA and at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where he earned his Master's in Music Education.
Ben Scharf
Associate Director of Bands
Ben Scharf joined the Homestead Music Department in 2020. While a student at Cupertino High School, he played in the Marching Band. He earned his undergraduate degree and teaching credential at the California State University at San Diego. He plays woodwind instruments, primarily the saxophone.
Jeff Morton
Choir Director
Daniel Piazza
Director of Percussion Programs, Music Department Logistic Coordinator
Daniel Piazza has been working with the band progam since 2015. A Homsetead Alumni, Daniel now the manages operations and logistics of the music programs at Homestead. Currently he holds the roles of Front Ensemble Caption, Electronics instructor, Sound Engineer, and Administrator for the Band program.
Jen Schaub
Band Admin
Jen Schaub has been an Admin for the Homestead Band program since 2018. She's also the mom to three current and former members of the Marching Band.
Raven Bautista
Color Guard Staff
Raven Bautista began his color guard journey as a sophomore at Homestead HS. He continued to march at Homestead through his senior year.
After graduating high school, Raven joined the Blue Devils B Open Class Drum Corps where he performed for two years. Following his time at BDB, he marched the Blue Devils World Class Corps, receiving a silver and gold medal.
Raven began teaching at Homestead immediately following his graduation in 2017 and has been a member of the staff ever since.
Noah James Peters
Color Guard Staff
Noah James Peters started his marching career in 7th grade at Ingrid B. Lacy Middle School in Pacifica, CA. He joined playing the trombone, but eventually was drawn into the color guard. He went on to march with the Terra Nova High School Marching Band as a 4-year color guard member, becoming head captain his senior year.
After graduating high school, Noah joined the Blue Devils B Open Class Drum Corp for the 2017 season and was a color guard captain for the 2018 season. He also marched in the first and only year of the Blue Devils B Winter Guard.
Noah began his teaching career in 2017 with the Archbishop Riordan High School Marching Band, where he stayed until 2019. He joined the Terra Nova High School Marching Band as Visual Caption Head in 2018, and transitioned to Color Guard Caption Head in 2019 and 2020. Noah began teaching at Homestead as a Flag Technician in the Winter of 2018 and has been on staff since.
Elad Zohar
Visual Caption Head
Elad has been teaching at Homestead since 2018. He started leading the visual program in 2023 and is very passionate about building a competitive program that understands how to work hard but also how to have fun working hard. He is a proud Homestead alum from the graduating class of 2016, who served the band as a Trumpet player, and Drum Major. He also participated in Winter Percussion his Sophomore year (Winter 2014) as a Synth player. After High School, Elad marched in the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps winning 1 open class championship (2015) and 1 world class championship (2018).
Elad went to West Valley College and transferred to UC Santa Cruz graduating with a B.S. degree in Computer Science. He participated in the University Wind Ensemble and Orchestra in his time there, having the opportunity to conduct the Orchestra in a piece during his last quarter.