Colin McNutt has instructed and arranged for the Star of Indiana Drum and Bugle Corps, and the popular stage production, Blast! He has also written for and instructed the Crossmen Drum and Bugle Corps the Glassmen Drum and Bugle Corps, Magic of Orlando and the Madison Scouts.



Colin McNutt has served on the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he is an alumnus and received degrees in Classics and Music Education.



Currently, Colin McNutt is the Percussion Caption Supervisor for the nine time DCI World Champion Cadets Drum & Bugle Corps.



Colin hasn't only instructed as McNutt started marching drum corps his junior year in high school in 1988 with the Boston Crusaders of Boston, Massachusetts then aging out with the Santa Clara Vanguard of Santa Clara, California in 1992.



Colin McNutt has made a career out of his passion for music and percussion, while in between completing his double major of music education and classics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1998.



When not instructing drum corps, McNutt conducts clinics for the percussion companies Avedis Zildjian Co., Remo, and Vic Firth. He also writes music for marching bands in the United States and Japan.