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Mr. Ben Salgado
  
















   Mr. Ben Salgado, Fine Arts Teacher 
   Email address: bsalgado@bhsd228.com
   Phone number:  708-371-3600 Ext. 5267

   2022-2023 Class Schedule
   Period 2     Symphonic Band (+Honors)
   Period 3     Beginning Band
   Period 5     Concert Choir (+Honors)
   Period 6     Jazz Ensemble (+Honors)
   Period 7A   Academic Assistance Center 

   Period 8     Concert Band
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Mr. Salgado is the sponsor of the following activities:
Band, Choir, Color Guard (co-director), Stage Crew, and Special Interest Choir.
Mr. Salgado is also the Assistant Speech coach.  ​
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Ben Salgado is a fine arts teacher at Bremen H.S.  He is the Director of Bands & Choirs, the Assistant Speech Coach, Color Guard Director, and the Stage Crew Director for the plays.  Prior to coming to Bremen H.S. he taught music, art, drama and band at Heritage M.S. in Summit, IL.  While there he also served as co-yearbook sponsor. Mr. Salgado then taught music at George Washington H.S. in Chicago, IL before coming to Bremen H.S.  He is in his 20th year of teaching, and his 18th year at Bremen H.S.

Mr. Salgado graduated from Argo Community H.S. in Summit, IL.  He was very active in school activities and sports, including band, choir, drama (member of International Thespian Troupe #2580), baseball, golf, cheerleading, and student government (serving as senior class president).  In 1996 Mr. Salgado was selected by audition to the All-Midwest Grammy Jazz Ensemble (lead trumpet) and the All-American Grammy Jazz Ensemble where he performed with guest artists Arturo Sandoval and Carlos Santana.  He was also named a Golden Apple Scholar in 1996. 

Mr. Salgado earned his Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree from Elmhurst College.  During his time at Elmhurst he performed in many musical ensembles including the Concert Band, the Concert Choir, several jazz combos and the internationally acclaimed Elmhurst College Jazz Band, under the direction of Doug Beach.  In addition to performing throughout the United States, Mr. Salgado performed with the Elmhurst College Jazz Band in Indonesia (Jak Jazz Festival), Italy (Umbria Jazz Festival), Switzerland (Montreux Jazz Festival), Ireland, England, Sicily and Malta.  While he was at Elmhurst College he performed with numerous guest artists, including Clark Terry, Nicholas Payton, Diane Schuur, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Mark Colby, Brian Culbertson, Bobby Shew, Jon Faddis, Lanny Morgan, Mike Abene, and Frank Mantooth,, to name a few.  Mr. Salgado earned a Master of Education degree in Curriculum and Instruction from Olivet Nazarene University in 2012 and has completed graduate coursework at Vandercook College of Music.

Mr. Salgado is married and has two children.  He has been active in his home community where he has served in recent years as a Cub Scout Den Leader, Director of Children's Programming for Spotlight Arts Collective, President of his children's School & Community Organization (SCO), and is currently a Religious Education Teacher.
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Mr. Salgado has a long history of being active in the performing arts.  Listed are some of the major productions that Mr. Salgado has directed or assistant directed while at Bremen H.S. and also some of the productions he has been involved in outside of Bremen H.S. 
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Bremen H.S. Marching Brigade
2004 - West Side Story 
2005 - Blues Brothers
2006 - Pirates of the Caribbean
2007 - Gotham & Metropolis 
2008 - Fiddler In Blue
2009 - Arabian Nights
2010 - Stevie Wonder
2011 - Les Miserables
2012 - Led Zepellin
2013 - Michael Jackson 
2014 - Man of Steel 
2015 - Give Up The Funk! 
​2016 - Beatlemania!
2017 - Sing!
2018 - Dia de los Muertos
​2019 - The Witching Hour
2020 - No Show This Season
2021 - Music of Queen
​2022 - Groovitude


 

Bremen H.S. Plays & Musicals
2006 - Arsenic and Old Lace - Asst. Director/Tech Director
2007 - Little Shop of Horrors - Asst. Dir./Tech Dir./Music Dir.
2007 - Murder's In The Heir - Director/Tech Director
2008 - Beauty and the Beast - Director/Tech Dir./Music Dir.
2008 - Dracula - Tech Director
2009 - CSI:  Neverland - Tech Director
2009 - Sleepy Hollow - Tech Director
2010 - The Pink Panther Strikes Again - Tech Director
2010 - Pizza Wars - Tech Director
2011 - Aladdin JR.- Tech Director
2011 - Horror High - Tech Director
2012 - Annie - Director/Music Director
2012 - Captain Bree:  Scourge of the Sea - Tech Director
2013 - Lizzie Borden Of Fall River - Tech Director
2013 - Arsenic & Old Lace - Tech Director
2014 - Little Shop of Horrors - Director/Music Director 
2014 - Did Someone Say, Murder? - Tech Director
2015 - Lady Dracula - Tech Director
2015 - Game of Tiaras - Tech Director
2016 - Myths at the Edge of the World - Tech Director
2016 - The Election - Tech Director
2017 - The Jungle Book - Tech Director
2017 - Illinois Jane and the Pyramid of Peril - Tech Director
​2018 - Cry of the Banshee - Tech Director
2018 - Little Women 2:  Wrath Of The Dead - Tech Director
2019 - Godspell - Director/Music Director
2019 - Peter Pan - Tech Director
2020 - Squad Goals - Tech Director
2021 - Power Line - Tech Director
2021 - Villains and Zombies - Tech Director
2022 - Beauty and the Beast JR. - Director/Music Director/Lights/Sound
2022 - Death of a Hot Sauce Salesman


Spotlight Arts Collective (formerly LWTG)
2​021 -  Annie JR.- Producer, Music Director
2019 -  Willy Wonka JR. - Producer, lights
2018 - The Wizard of Oz - sound

Hilda Walker School Drama Club
2018 - Kid Frankenstein - lights 

Lincoln-Way Area Summer Stock Theatre
2016 - Joseph and  the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat -  sound

Gumball  Players (2005-2008, Music Director)
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Anything Goes
Grease
Guys and Dolls

​Argo H.S. Marching Band (brass staff, 2001-2002)
West Side Story

​Argo H.S. Marching Band (student, 1992-1996)
The Music of Duke Ellington
The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Sound of Music 
The Music of John Williams

Argo H.S. Drama (student, 1992-1996)
Little Shop of Horrors - Pit Orchestra (bass guitar)
Of Mice and Men - Crew
Fiddler on the Roof - P
it Orchestra (trumpet)
Big River - C
ast - "The Duke"