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He is a trumpeter, cornet player and teacher who
studied at the Tennessee Technological University and the Cincinatti College
Conservatory of Music. Taking part in many competitions he has received
first prize in the Tennessee Trumpet Competition, the National Trumpet
Competition and won an ITG Scholarship for Outstanding Musicians. As a performer he has appeared
with the Cincinnati Symphony and Brass Band, Nashville Symphony, the
Dayton Philharmonic, the Bryan Symphony, is the resident trumpet for
the Cumberland County Playhouse, Crossville, Tennessee, and a member
of Mr Jack Daniel's Original Silver Cornet Band, the Cincinnati
Ballet Orchestra and Tim
Zimmerman & The
King's Brass
. He has also
appeared in the orchestra for the Broadway show Peter Pan. Taking part in many festivals he
has featured at the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the Sacramento
Jazz Jubilee, the Great American Brass Band Festival, the Medford Jazz
Festival and the Sun Valley Jazz Jamboree among others. Featuring on at least five recordings
to date he can be heard on Classic Hymns by Tim
Zimmerman & The
King's Brass
among others. In
the field of musical education he has been the Assistant Band Director on
the faculties of Cumberland County High and Elementary Schools in Tennessee,
Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet at Wittenberg University and a teacher at a
teacher at the University of Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, the
Tennessee Governor's School for the Arts and various high schools in
Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Sources:
- http://www.silvercornet.com/crisp.html
- http://www4.wittenberg.edu/academics/music/web/faculty.html
- http://www.tntech.edu/trumpet/honors_ug.html
- http://www.kingsbrass.org/former_members.htm
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