Conn Selmer Masterclasses

Learn from expert performers and teachers. Improve and refine your skills and stretch your technique abilities through intermediate and advanced repertoire, instrument-specific techniques, inspirational interviews, and performances you'll aspire to.

Overview

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This video library is perfect for:
  • First-time players ready to get playing
  • Intermediate instrumentalists looking to hone their performance skills
  • All players interested in self-paced, authentic instruction
In this library you’ll learn:
  • Instrument care and proper body position
  • How to hold the instrument and make your first sounds
  • Instrument-specific techniques to enhance your playing
  • Intermediate and advanced techniques and repertoire

Curriculum

Bach Masterclass: Peter Wood, Trumpet

By Peter Wood
  • 0 Lessons
  • Peter Wood
  • Start Here
  • Meet Peter, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Introduction to the Topic
  • Funnel Metaphor
  • Feeling the Limit
  • Going Beyond the Limit
  • Pushing the wall vs No resistance - Using "More air"
  • Hills and Valleys
  • Considering the Hilltop Notes
  • Discussion and Demonstration
  • What would you tell you 12 year old self when you get frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to trumpet? If so, what?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?

Bach Masterclass: Mike Huff, Trumpet

By Mike Huff
  • 16 Lessons
  • Mike Huff
  • Start Here
  • Meet Mike, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Applying Breathing Principles
  • Applying Flow of Air
  • Play Through
  • Applying Flow of Air
  • Applying Phrase by Phrase
  • Play Through
  • The 1+2 Combination
  • Tonguing Patterns with Facial Movement
  • Using French Linguistic Syllables
  • #1 Exercise - Play Through
  • #1 Exercise - Play Through - Slow Tempo
  • #1 Exercise - Play Through - Fast Tempo
  • #77 Exercise - Explanation
  • #77 Exercise - Play Through
  • #77 Exercise - Play Through - Slow Tempo
  • #77 Exercise - Play Through - Fast Tempo
  • What would you tell you 12 year old self when frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to trumpet? If so, what?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?

Selmer Masterclass: Heidi Radtke, Saxophone

By Heidi Radtke
  • 40 Lessons
  • Heidi Radtke
  • Start Here.
  • Meet Heidi, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Introduction
  • Vocalize on the Saxophone
  • Singing the Syllables
  • Applying Syllables to the Piece
  • Strategy - Rhythm and Counting
  • Strategy - Fill in the Blanks
  • Markup Subdivisions
  • Strategy - Combining Rhythms and Syllables
  • Strategy - Vibrato Development
  • Full Performance
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self when she gets discouraged?
  • Do you play any other instruments in addition to saxophone?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?

Selmer Masterclass: Matthew Tracy, Saxophone

By Matthew Tracy
  • 58 Lessons
  • Matthew Tracy
  • Start Here
  • Meet Matthew, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Course Overview
  • Overview of the Etude
  • Demonstration of Energized Accent Articulations
  • Play Along
  • Overview of the Etude
  • Demonstration of Legato Articulation
  • Play Along
  • Overview of the Etude
  • Demonstration of Light Staccato
  • Play Along
  • Overview of Etude
  • Demonstration of Marcato
  • Play Through - Slow Tempo
  • Play Along
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self when you get frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to saxophone?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?

Selmer Masterclass: Paula Van Goes, Saxophone

By Paula Van Goes
  • 80 Lessons
  • Paula Van Goes
  • Start Here
  • Meet Paula, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Introduction
  • First Day of Practice
  • Choose Your Subject
  • Choose Your Color Palette
  • Simple Lines are Complete
  • What is the Basic Line Drawing?
  • Incorporating a Metronome
  • Building Layers
  • Furthering Your Concept
  • Look at the Big Picture
  • Technique - The Details of the Brush Stroke
  • The Final Product
  • What would you tell you 12 year old self when she gets frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to saxophone? If so, what?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?

Selmer Masterclass: Andrew J Allen, Saxophone

By Andrew Allen
  • 100 Lessons
  • Andrew Allen
  • Start Here.
  • Meet Andrew, your Masterclass Instructor.
  • Introduction
  • Breath
  • Embouchure
  • Mouthpiece Pitch
  • Introduction
  • Initial Tuning
  • Introduction
  • Exercise - Furling's Etude #8
  • Exercise - Single Note
  • Articulation Variants - Accents and Tenuto
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self when you get frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to saxophone?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?

Selmer Masterclass: Kyle Mechmet, Saxophone

By Kyle Mechmet
  • 118 Lessons
  • Kyle Mechmet
  • Start Here
  • Meet Kyle, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Overview of Material
  • Double Lip - Explanation
  • Double Lip - Level 1
  • Double Lip - Level 2
  • Double Lip - Level 3
  • Pitch Bending Explanation
  • Pitch Bending Part 1
  • Pitch Bending up the Scale
  • Pitch Bending Part 2
  • Widening the Intervals
  • Pushing the Limit
  • Tuning Drone
  • Bach 2nd Violin Partita, 1st Movement
  • Differences and Similarities
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self when they get frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to saxophone?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?

Masterclass: Nathan Mensink, Saxophone

By Nathan Mensink
  • 140 Lessons
  • Nathan Mensink
  • Start Here
  • Meet Nathan, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Top Left and Overview
  • Tricky Bits- Syncopation
  • Tricky Bits- Fingering
  • Style
  • Play Through - Slow
  • Play Through - Fast
  • Top Left Overview
  • Tricky Bits- Counting and Rhythm
  • Style
  • Play Through
  • Solo Excerpt: Caprice en Forme de Valse, Bonneau
  • Solo Excerpt: Tango Etude #3
  • What would you tell you 12 year old self when you get frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to saxophone? If so, what?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?

Masterclass: Brian Rodesch, Saxophone

By Brian Rodesch
  • 160 Lessons
  • Brian Rodesch
  • Start Here.
  • Meet Brian, your Masterclass Instructor
  • Introduction - Back Tonguing & Swing 8th Notes
  • Ooh-Tah Articulation
  • Subdividing Triplets to Internalize Swing
  • Audiation of Triplets Oo-La-Tah
  • Playing Triplets Oo-La-Tah - Single Note
  • Playing Triplets Oo-La-Tah - G Major Scale
  • Final Thoughts and Tips
  • Basics of Improvisation
  • Improvising Using the Scale
  • Differences Between Alto and Tenor
  • Transposition
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self when you get frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to saxophone?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?

Masterclass: Griffin Campbell, Saxophone

By Griffin Campbell
  • 179 Lessons
  • Griffin Campbell
  • Start Here.
  • Meet Griffin, Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Finger Motions
  • Tone
  • Overview of Selection
  • Applying Finger Motions
  • Applying Tone
  • GC M3L4-final-GriffinCampbell
  • Full Play Through
  • Overview
  • Importance of Slow Practice with a Metronome
  • Full Play Through
  • Bach - First Movement of G Minor Violin Sonata
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self when he got frustrated?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to saxophone?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • What are some musical selections you can't get enough of right now?
  • What is something you do every day to improve your skills?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?

Bach Masterclass: Sean Jones, Trumpet

By Sean Jones
  • 198 Lessons
  • Sean Jones
  • Introducing Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Introduction to the Blues
  • Chord Progression
  • Dominant 7th Chord
  • Inflections: Fun Ways to Enhance Playing
  • Recap
  • Sean Playing the Trumpet
  • What got you started on playing the trumpet?
  • What is on your listening heavy rotation right now?
  • If you could relive a moment in your professional life, what would that be?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • When you walk into a music store, what are you looking for?
  • What are 5 records everyone should listen to?

Henri Selmer Paris Interview: Darkson Magrinelli, Clarinet

By Darkson Magrinelli
  • 211 Lessons
  • Darkson Magrinelli
  • Tell us about yourself.
  • What advice can you give to anyone wanting to study abroad?
  • What is it like to be a student in a different country?
  • Tell us about what it is like to teach in another country?
  • When did you decide to play your instrument professionally?
  • Share with us a moment in your musical career that stands out or is particularly memorable.
  • What kind of music do you listen to the most?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What have you found to be the most rewarding thing about being a professional musician?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they’re frustrated?
  • What is something you’ve struggled on with your instrument and how did you overcome it?
  • Tell us about yourself. (in Portuguese)
  • What advice can you give to anyone wanting to study abroad? (in Portuguese)
  • What is it like to be a student in a different country? (in Portuguese)
  • Tell us about what it is like to teach in another country? (in Portuguese)
  • When did you decide to play your instrument professionally? (in Portuguese)
  • Share with us a moment in your musical career that stands out or is particularly memorable. (in Portuguese)
  • What kind of music do you listen to the most? (in Portuguese)
  • What do you practice every day? (in Portuguese)
  • What have you found to be the most rewarding thing about being a professional musician? (in Portuguese)
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they’re frustrated? (in Portuguese)
  • What is something you’ve struggled on with your instrument and how did you overcome it? (in Portuguese)
  • Tell us about yourself (in Spanish)
  • What advice can you give to anyone wanting to study abroad? (in Spanish)
  • What is it like to be a student in a different country? (in Spanish)
  • Tell us about what it is like to teach in another country. (in Spanish)
  • When did you decide to play your instrument professionally? (in Spanish)
  • Share with us a moment in your musical career that stands out or is particularly memorable. (in Spanish)
  • What kind of music do you listen to the most? (in Spanish)
  • What do you practice every day? (in Spanish)
  • What have you found to be the most rewarding thing about being a professional musician? (in Spanish)
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they’re frustrated? (in Spanish)
  • What is something you’ve struggled on with your instrument and how did you overcome it? (in Spanish)

Bach Masterclass: Summer Camargo, Trumpet

By Summer Camargo
  • 244 Lessons
  • Summer Camargo
  • Introducing your Masterclass Instructor
  • Intro to Mutes
  • Cup
  • Straight
  • Harmon
  • Plunger - Part 1
  • Plunger - Part 2
  • Plunger - Part 3
  • Synopsis
  • Inflections -Vibrato
  • Inflections - Half Valve
  • Alternate Fingerings
  • Bends
  • Turns
  • "West End Blues" - Louis Armstrong
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more of when you were a young player?
  • What would you tell your past self when times were tough?
  • When did you know you wanted to play professionally?

Henri Selmer Paris Masterclass: Robert Spring, Clarinet

By Robert Spring
  • 264 Lessons
  • Robert Spring
  • Introducing Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Tuning with a Drone
  • Drone and Tuning Demo
  • Venting/Dampening
  • High Note Production
  • Bugle Calls
  • Long Tones Overview
  • Tonguing
  • Tongue Strengthening
  • General Overview and Tips
  • Alternate Fingerings / Sliding vs. Switching
  • Mind Body Connection
  • Scales
  • Four Duets for Four Demi-Clarinets
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play your instrument professionally? How did that change your life?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did less of when you were a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • Do you play any instruments in addition to clarinet?
  • What does a typical day look like for you?
  • Can you tell us about an outstanding musical experience?
  • If you could play a duet with any other musician, living or passed, who would it be?
  • Tell us about the beginning of your musical journey.

Conn Masterclass: Clarence Hines, Trombone

By Clarence Hines
  • 288 Lessons
  • Clarence Hines
  • Introducing Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Scales Overview
  • Major Scales
  • Intro to Mixolydian Scales
  • Enclosures
  • Mixolydian Scale Pattens
  • Mixolydian Enclosure Pattern
  • Mixolydian ii-V Pattern
  • Solo over "Autumn Leaves"
  • Quick Version - Solo over "Autumn Leaves"
  • Listening for Patterns
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more of when you were a young player?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • When did you know you wanted to play professionally?

Selmer Masterclass: Miles Osland, Saxophone

By Miles Osland
  • 304 Lessons
  • Miles Osland
  • Start Here
  • Get to Know Miles Osland
  • Phrasing by 2's - Basic Jazz Articulation
  • Phrasing by 3's
  • Combining 2's and 3's in 4-Note Cells
  • Combining 2's and 3's Part 2
  • Finding Your Speed Threshold
  • 4/4,4/5,4/6,4/7,4/8 Up
  • D Jazz Minor Scale
  • Subtongue Technique
  • Intro to the Etude
  • Play Along - 60 bpm
  • Play Along - 80 bpm
  • Play Along - 100 bpm
  • Intro to Minority
  • Minority Play Along - 60bpm
  • Minority Play Along - 80bpm
  • Minority Play Along - 100bpm
  • Intro to David Sanborn's solo on Hideaway
  • Hideaway performance at 124 bpm
  • Hideaway performance at 132 bpm
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more of when you were a young player?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • When did you know you wanted to go into music?

King Masterclass: Ryan Heinlein, Trombone

By Ryan Heinlein
  • 330 Lessons
  • Ryan Heinlein
  • Introducing Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Using Rhythm for Beginning Improvization
  • One Pitch Motif
  • Roots on the Same Rhythm
  • Roots on Different Rhythms
  • 7th and Combining Roots and 7ths
  • Root, 7th Different Rhythms
  • 9th, Root, 7th and 9ths
  • 3rds
  • Putting it all Together
  • Jazz Articulations
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more of when you were a young player?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • When did you know you wanted to play professionally?

Bach Masterclass: Tom Malone, Trombone

By Tom "Bones" Malone
  • 346 Lessons
  • Tom "Bones" Malone
  • Start Here
  • Meet Tom Malone
  • Intro to Slurs and Flexibility
  • Level 1 Top Bb
  • Level 2 Top F
  • Level 3 Top Bb
  • Complex to F
  • Bb to F
  • Bb to Ab
  • Bb to Bb
  • Intro to Alternate Positions
  • Alternate positions Part 1
  • Alternate positions Part 2
  • Alternate positions Part 3
  • Alternate positions Part 4
  • Alternate positions Part 5
  • Alternate positions Part 6
  • Alternate positions Part 7
  • Alternate positions Part 8
  • Practical Demonstration of Alternate Positions
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more of when you were a young player?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • When did you know you wanted to play professionally?

Bach Masterclass: Chris Scanlon, Trumpet

By Chris Scanlon
  • 371 Lessons
  • Chris Scanlon
  • Start Here
  • Meet Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Background
  • Rubato
  • Vibrato
  • Trills
  • Note Groupings and Runs
  • Glissando and Lip Trill
  • Full Play Through
  • Background
  • Beginning-mm 12 Fermata
  • Beginning-mm 12 Fermata - Articulations Demonstration
  • mm 12-18 -Calme to Deciso
  • mm 19-End
  • Full Play Through
  • Caruso - 6 Notes - Explanation
  • Caruso - 6 notes - Play Along
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play your instrument professionally? How did that change your life?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did less of when you were a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • What is the value of private lessons? Why should students opt in for them?

Selmer Masterclass: Michael Doyle, Saxophone

By Michael Doyle
  • 394 Lessons
  • Michael Doyle
  • Meet Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Major Scales
  • Minor Scales
  • Dominant 7th
  • Blues Scales
  • Altered Scales
  • Modes
  • Form
  • Melodic, Harmonic, and Rhythmic Elements
  • Developing Jazz Vocabulary
  • Blues - Major, Minor, Altered
  • I Got Rhythm Changes
  • Tunes based on AABA form -32 Bar Form
  • Tunes Based on ii V I Progressions
  • Tunes Based on ii V I Progression - "Tune Up"
  • "Cherokee" - Ray Noble
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play your instrument professionally? How did that change your life?
  • What do you wish you did less of when you were a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • What records do you have on heavy rotation?

Bach Masterclass: Dorival Puccini, Trumpet

By Dorival Puccini
  • 415 Lessons
  • Dorival Puccini
  • Start Here
  • Introducing Your Masterclass Instructor
  • Discussion
  • Play Through
  • Discussion
  • Play Through
  • Discussion
  • Play Through
  • Introduction
  • Part 1 - Bars 1 Thru 16
  • Part 2 - Bars 17 Thru 32
  • Part 3 - Bars 33 Thru 48
  • Part 4 - Bars 49 Thru 69
  • Part 5 - Bars 73 To the Downbeat of Bar 87
  • Part 6 - Coda, Bar 87
  • Play Through - Bars 1 Thru 16
  • Play Through - Bars 17 Thru 32
  • Play Through - Bars 33 Thru 48
  • Play Through - Bars 49 Thru 72
  • Play Through - Bars 73 Thru End
  • Full Play Through
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play your instrument professionally and how did it change your life?
  • What do you practice everyday?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self when they get discouraged?
  • What's in your heavy listening rotation?
  • Tell us about your horn.

Bach Masterclass: Sarah Stoneback , Trumpet

By Sarah Stoneback
  • 442 Lessons
  • Sarah Stoneback
  • Start Here
  • Sarah's Introduction
  • Sarah's Teaching Style and Topics Overview
  • Course Overview
  • Play Through
  • Breakdown
  • Refinement through Experimentation
  • Introduction and Key Opportunities
  • Airflow Quality and Consistancy
  • Key Signatures and Fingering Challenges
  • Introduction
  • Abstract Conceptualization
  • Play Through - 1st Andante Section
  • Play Through - 1st Allegro Section
  • Play Through - 2nd Andante to End
  • Full Play Through
  • Musical Tips for Practicing and Performing
  • 1st Allegro - Importance of Feeling and Imagery
  • Leggero Section
  • Phrasing and Breathing
  • Importance of Taking Passages out of Context
  • Final Line of Andante et Allegro
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What kind of music do you have on heavy rotation?
  • What would you tell your 15 year old self when they get frustrated?
  • When did you decide to become a professional trumpet player and how did that change your life?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how have you overcome it?
  • How to Reach out to Sarah

Bach Masterclass: Stanley Curtis , Trumpet

By Stanley Curtis
  • 470 Lessons
  • Stanley Curtis
  • Start Here
  • This is Stanley Curtis
  • Why Tone is Important
  • Playing in the Sweet Spot
  • Vowel Placement
  • Demonstration of Vowel Placement
  • Overview of Breathing Concepts
  • Three Control Points of Breathing
  • Buzzing and Building your Aperture
  • Selection Overview
  • Phrasing Strategies
  • Continuity of Air
  • Beginning the Note
  • Full Play Through
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What kind of music do you have on heavy rotation?
  • What would you tell your 15 year old self when they get frustrated?
  • When did you decide to become a professional trumpet player and how did that change your life?
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument and how did you overcome it?

Bach Masterclass: Sean Flanigan, Trombone

By Sean Flanigan
  • 489 Lessons
  • Sean Flanigan
  • Sean's Introduction
  • Overview
  • Chromatic Line Demonstration
  • Playing the Line in Context
  • Playing Around with the Chromatic Line
  • Why Does it Work?
  • Don't Think, Just Play
  • Doodle Tonguing
  • "Love Is Here To Stay"
  • Alternate Positions
  • Articulation Variations - Detached
  • Articulation Variations - Legato
  • Slide Technique
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What kind of music do you have on heavy rotation?
  • What would you tell your 15 year old self when they get frustrated?
  • When did you decide to become a professional trombone player and how did that change your life?
  • How does performing on stage help in your trombone playing?

Bach Masterclass: Peter Steiner, Trombone

By Peter Steiner
  • 507 Lessons
  • Peter Steiner
  • Start Here
  • Introducing Your Masterclass Instructor
  • How to Approach the Selection
  • How to Start - Articulation/Breath
  • Breathing
  • The Big Leap
  • Rhythmic Challenges
  • Articulation
  • Musical Interpretation
  • Full Play Through
  • Scales
  • What is something you've struggled with on your instrument, and how did you overcome it?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play your instrument professionally? How did that change your life?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What would you tell your 12-year-old self when they get discouraged?
  • What's in your heavy listening rotation?
  • What is the best first trombone sound you heard?

Conn Masterclass: Brad Leali, Alto Saxophone

By Brad Leali
  • 524 Lessons
  • Brad Leali
  • First Steps for Improvisation
  • Breathing Correctly
  • Developing Great Breathing Habbits
  • Ha Ta Ta
  • Brad Playing Saxophone
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more or less of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?

Bach Masterclass: Ben Fairfield, Trumpet

By Ben Fairfield
  • 534 Lessons
  • Ben Fairfield
  • Start Here.
  • Ben's Introduction
  • Overview
  • Style
  • Articulation
  • Accidentals and Athleticism
  • Breathing Strategy
  • Dynamics
  • Character and Approach
  • 1st Half Play Through
  • 2nd Half Play Through
  • Full Play Through
  • Overview
  • Style and Rubato
  • Dynamics (Throwing the Shade)
  • Tension and Release
  • Cadenza-Like Passages
  • Final Thoughts and Impressions
  • First Half Play Through
  • Second Half Play Through
  • Full Play Through
  • Explanation / How to Approach
  • Part 1 Play Through
  • Part 2 Play Through
  • Part 3 Play Through
  • Full Play Through
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice everyday?
  • What do you wish you had done more of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old self who is discouraged?

Bach Masterclass: Vernon Richter, Trumpet

By Vernon Richter
  • 565 Lessons
  • Vernon Richter
  • Start Here
  • Course Introduction
  • Discussion of Measures 1-12
  • Discussion of Measures 12-19
  • Discussion of Cadenza to the End
  • Measures 1-12 Play Through
  • Measures 12-19 Play Through
  • Cadenza to End Play Through
  • Full Play Through
  • Introduction to the Wurm #40 - What to expect
  • Discussion of Measures 1-16 Part 2
  • Discussion of Measures 17-32
  • Discussion of Measures 33- End
  • Measures 1-16 Play Through
  • Measures 17-32 Play Through
  • Measures 32-End Play Through
  • Full Play Through
  • Solo Performance
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decided you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more or less of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?

Bach Masterclass: Brian Walker, Trumpet

By Brian Walker
  • 588 Lessons
  • Brian Walker
  • Start Here.
  • Course Introduction
  • Technique Tips
  • Full Play Through
  • Technique Tips
  • Full Play Through
  • Technique Tips
  • Full Play Through
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice everyday?
  • What do you wish you did more or less of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?

Bach Masterclass: Lacey Phelps, Trumpet

By Lacey Phelps
  • 601 Lessons
  • Lacey Phelps
  • Start Here
  • Course Introduction
  • Etude Overview
  • Key, Scales, and Arpeggios
  • Form
  • Range
  • How to Approach the Piece
  • Part 1 Play Through
  • Part 2 Play Through
  • Full Play Through
  • Overview
  • Articulation
  • Dynamics
  • How to Approach the Piece
  • Part 1 Play Through
  • Part 2 Play Through
  • Part 3 Play Through
  • Full Piece Play Through
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did less or more of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discoraged self.

Bach Masterclass: Travis Harris, Trombone

By Travis Harris
  • 624 Lessons
  • Travis Harris
  • Hand Position and Embouchure Seat
  • Building Your Upper Register on Trombone
  • Difference Between Daily Warm Up and Daily Maintenance
  • Staccato Articulation
  • Legato Articulation
  • Slide Technique in Various Styles
  • Harris Practice Method
  • "Summertime"
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did less or more of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?

King Masterclass: Nick Finzer, Trombone

By Nick Finzer
  • 637 Lessons
  • Nick Finzer
  • Start Here
  • Course Introduction
  • How to Swing a Scale
  • Master the Basics - 4 Kinds of Triads
  • All the Triads Together
  • How to Tackle any Basic Chord Progression in Jazz
  • Root-7th-Root-3rd, Dominant 7 Chords
  • Root-7th-Root-3rd, Minor 7 Chords
  • Application of Chords
  • How to Construct a ii V I Line in Jazz
  • Jazz Trombone Articulation
  • Solo Performance by Nick
  • Lullaby for an Old Friend
  • Bouncin with Bud
  • Conception
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more or less of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?

Selmer Masterclass: Sarah Roberts, Saxophone

By Sarah Roberts
  • 657 Lessons
  • Sarah Roberts
  • Start Here
  • Course Introduction
  • Key and Style
  • Tempo
  • Articulations and Dynamics
  • Fingers
  • Tone
  • Full Play Through
  • Overview
  • Key
  • Time Signature and Style
  • Articulation and Dynamics
  • Rhythm and Fingerings
  • Style
  • Full Play Through
  • Solo Performance
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?

Selmer Masterclass: Julee Kim Walker, Flute

By Julee Kim Walker
  • 677 Lessons
  • Julee Kim Walker
  • Start Here
  • Course Introduction
  • Air Stream and Tone
  • Interval Work
  • Rhythm Work Part 1
  • Rhythm Work Part 2
  • Rhythm Work Part 3
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
  • Full Etude
  • Tips for Execution
  • Solo Performance
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more or less of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?

Selmer Masterclass: Carolyn Keyes, Flute

By Carolyn Keyes
  • 694 Lessons
  • Carolyn Keyes
  • Start Here
  • Introduction and Background
  • Challenges
  • Breathing
  • Vibrato
  • Articulation
  • Fingering Suggestions
  • Full Performance
  • Introduction and General Suggestions
  • Background
  • Why it Matters
  • Tempo and Style
  • What is a Caprece?
  • Phrases and Breathing
  • Articulation
  • Fingering Recommendations
  • The Tricky Spots
  • Performance - Slow Tempo
  • Performance - At Tempo
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?
  • When did you decide you wanted to play professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more or less of as a young artist?
  • What would you tell your 12 year old discouraged self?

Henri Selmer Paris Masterclass: Kimberly Cole Luevano, Clarinet

By Kimberly Cole Luevano
  • 718 Lessons
  • Kimberly Cole Luevano
  • Inhalation (Breathing)
  • Exhalation (Blowing)
  • Exhalation Part 2
  • Elephant Exercise
  • Embouchure
  • Embouchure Check
  • Embouchure Exercises
  • Biting? What is This?
  • Voicing
  • Why should students take private lessons?
  • When did you decide to play your instrument professionally?
  • What do you practice every day?
  • What do you wish you did more of less of as a young artist?
  • What's something you've struggled with on your instrument?

Instructors

Peter Wood

Peter Wood is an Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of South Alabama. He is a two-time recipient of USA's Excellence in Teaching Awards. He has performed at conferences of the International Trumpet Guild, College Music Society, and Society of Electroacoustic Music in the United States, as well as at the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. He performs with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and has released two solo CD recordings on the MSR Classics and Beauport Classical labels. In addition to his teaching and performing activities, he also serves as the Editor of the "Recording Reviews" column of the International Trumpet Guild Journal.Wood earned his DM in Trumpet Performance and Literature from Indiana University-Bloomington, MM degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the BME from the University of Illinois. His principal trumpet teachers include Stephen Burns, Edmund Cord, John Aley, Ray Sasaki, Michael Tunnell, and Patrick Dessent.

Mike Huff

Dr. Michael Huff is a Professor of Music at Troy University, where he teaches trumpet, brass methods and works with the band program. He earned his degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, the Eastman School of Music, and the Catholic University of America. Before his appointment at Troy University, he taught at Mississippi State University. Dr. Huff is a versatile trumpet player and has performed with several symphonies and wind ensembles across the country. He is an endorsing artist for Bach Trumpets and a member of the International Trumpet Guild and the College Music Society.

Heidi Radtke

Heidi Radtke is a saxophonist and educator, currently serving as the Saxophone Instructor at Butler University in Indianapolis and providing instruction for the Carmel High School band program. She has performed with several orchestras and local studios, frequently collaborating with fellow Butler University colleagues. Heidi has written reviews for the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Journal and is on the review team for the online periodical thesaxophonist.org. She completed her Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University Bloomington and her doctoral dissertation focused on saxophone quartet pedagogy. Additionally, Heidi has given presentations on chamber music coaching strategies and resources at various conferences. She is a Vandoren Regional Artist and plays exclusively on Selmer Paris saxophones.

Matthew Tracy

Saxophonist Matthew Tracy is a multifaceted musician whose performance experience and pedagogy have made him a sought-after educator and clinician. Since 2016 Tracy has served as Associate Professor of Saxophone and Music Theory at SouthwesternOklahoma State University. Alongside a robust teaching career, Tracy is an accomplished chamber musician, winning awards in the Fischoff, Plowman, Coleman, MTNA, and North American Saxophone Alliance chamber music competitions. An advocate for new music, Tracy has premiered, commissioned, and recorded a number of new works. In 2023, Tracy will release an album of new music for saxophone entitled Modus Tollens.

Paula Van Goes

Paula Van Goes is "a virtuoso saxophonist that possesses excellent technical attributes and a deep understanding of the music [she] performs" (Ovación). As a Selmer-Paris Artist and Clinician she enjoys a career as a chamber musician, soloist and educator. While serving as the Interim Professor of Saxophone at Universidade de Brasília Dr. Van Goes is the first American to teach saxophone within the federal university system in Brazil.

Andrew Allen

Andrew J. Allen is “a master of all sizes of saxophone.” (The Instrumentalist, April 2018) In response to his New York solo debut, the Examiner opined that he had “performed brilliantly,” and the Wichita Falls Times-Record News has praised the "savory warmth” of his tone. The Saxophonist has lauded his "virtuosic saxophone performance,” and The Saxophone Symposium has cited his “complete control of the instrument.” As a concerto soloist, Allen has appeared with the Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra and numerous academic ensembles. He has performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, and Croatia.

Kyle Mechmet

As a prize-winning soloist, Kyle earned a performance spot at the 22nd Hamamatsu International Wind Instruments Academy & Festival in Hamamatsu, Japan for their Premier Student Concert. He also won Florida Atlantic University's 2012 Concerto Competition. Kyle has also given solo performances at various conferences, including those hosted by the North American Saxophone Alliance, the US Navy Band, and the Association of Concert Bands. In Florida, he frequently performs as a guest soloist with various community and school bands, including with the Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches, where he also serves as the associate conductor.

Nathan Mensink

Nathan Mensink is a Henri Selmer performing artist active in both classical and jazz styles and is assistant professor of saxophone at Arkansas Tech University. His musical endeavors have taken him across the United States and Europe. Mensink is a frequent soloist with various university ensembles, orchestras, and community groups, most recently being featured with the Morehead State University Symphony Band at the 2022 KMEA conference. Other notable solo performances include John Williams' Escapades with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, opening a Festival Miami program featuring singer-songwriter Ben Folds, and Ralph Martino’s Gershwin Fantasy under the baton of legendary conductor Colonel Arnald Gabriel.

Brian Rodesch

Saxophonist Brian Rodesch has carved out a varied career as both performer and educator, amassing a wealth of musical experiences that continue to shape his approach to both performing and pedagogy. Steeped in both classical and jazz traditions he has appeared in groups ranging from contemporary duos to symphony orchestras, and from small jazz groups to traditional big bands.

Griffin Campbell

Griffin Campbell has performed to critical acclaim throughout the United States and in Great Britain, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina, Slovenia, China, Italy, and Japan. Conference performances include solo appearances at meetings of the World Saxophone Congress, North American Saxophone Alliance, the Society of Composers, the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, and the International Computer Music Conference.

Sean Jones

Music and spirituality have always been intertwined in trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and activist Sean Jones. Growing up in the church choir in his hometown of Warren, Ohio, the Bach-endorsed Jones is a musical chameleon and comfortable in any musical setting no matter the role or genre. He has released eight albums with Mack Avenue Records, the latest being 2017’s Sean Jones: Live From Jazz At The Bistro. Jones is an internationally recognized educator and serves as President of the Jazz Educators Network. He holds the Richard and Elizabeth Case Chair of Jazz at John Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and is Artistic Director for Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz ensemble. He was previously Chair of the Brass Department at the Berklee College of Music. Jones was lead trumpet for Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the SFJAZZ Collective, and is now with Baltimore Jazz Collective. He is featured on three GRAMMY® nominated albums by Dianne Reeves, Nancy Wilson, and Gerald Wilson. https://www.sean-jones.com

Darkson Magrinelli

Brazilian clarinetist Darkson Magrinelli is the Director of Woodwinds at Western Colorado University. He played professionally in symphony orchestras in Brazil for over 10 years and was the bass clarinetist with the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra for four seasons. Prior to his appointment at WCU, Dr. Magrinelli was Director of Winds and Percussion Programs, in addition to Assistant Professor of Clarinet, at Azusa Pacific University. He also served on faculty at Fullerton College, Shaw University, East Tennessee State University, and University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Dr. Magrinelli has performed in masterclasses and lessons with regarded clarinetists in Uruguay, Ecuador, Switzerland, Italy, France, Germany, and more. Every summer, he teaches for the Festival Internacional de Música Guaranda held in Ecuador and Colombia. Recently, Dr. Magrinelli has performanced at Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles and at the Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in North Carolina. Magrinelli holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He earned his Master’s degree and Artist Certificate from Azusa Pacific University, and Bachelor’s degree from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Dr. Magrinelli trained under the tutelage of Michele Zukovsky, Kelly Burke, Diego Grendene, Burt Hara, and Yehuda Gilad. He is a Selmer-Paris Performing Artist and plays exclusively with Selmer Privilège clarinets.

Summer Camargo

Summer Camargo, was born and raised in Hollywood, Florida. She is a member of the Saturday Night Live Band, and Jerome L. Green Fellowship recipient, majoring in Jazz Studies at the Juilliard School. Summer has won several prestigious awards including the Essentially Ellington Festival’s Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award, the Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest, an Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Award at the Jack Rudin Championship, and third place in the International Trumpet Guild’s Ryan Anthony Trumpet Memorial Competition. Summer also participated in the Vail Jazz Workshop, Carnegie Hall’s NYO Jazz, the Monterey Jazz Festival Gala and played as a guest artist at the Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala and the Midwest Clinic. Summer is currently a member of the Ulysses Owens, Jr. Big Band, a member of the Gluck Community Service Fellowship Program, and the recipient of the 2020 Laurie Frink Career Grant. 

Robert Spring

obert Spring has been described as “one of this country’s most sensitive and talented clarinetists” (Arizona Republic), “dazzled his audience … flawless technique” (The Clarinet) and “a formidable soloist … played with great emotional life” (Copenhagen, Denmark, Politiken). Spring served as president of the ICA from 1998-2000 and hosted the 1995 ClarinetFest® at Arizona State University, where he is presently professor of clarinet. He is also a guest professor at the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music. Spring was awarded three degrees, including the Doctor of Musical Arts, from the University of Michigan, and was recently given the Citation of Merit Award from the School of Music Alumni Society. His teachers included John Mohler, David Shifrin and Paul Shaller. Spring has performed as a recitalist or soloist with symphony orchestras and wind bands in the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America, and has been heard on National Public Radio’s “Performance Today.” He frequently serves as clinician and adjudicator, teaches on the faculties of several summer music festivals, and has published numerous articles on multiple articulation and other contemporary clarinet techniques. Spring is a Henri Selmer Paris Artist and performs on the Privilège clarinet.

Clarence Hines

Clarence Hines is an Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of North Florida where he teaches trombone and jazz arranging. Prior to this position, Clarence co-directed the Jazz Lab Band and coached combos at the Eastman School of Music as a graduate teaching assistant. In addition, he taught trombone at the Eastman Community Music School. He currently serves on the faculty of the North Florida Music Camp and the Birch Creek Music Performance Center. Clarence is an active performer and composer/arranger who freelances in the North Florida and South Georgia area. Recent performances include shows with The O’Jays, John Pizzarelli, Josh Groban, the Harry James Orchestra and others. Clarence has also appeared in festivals such as the North Sea Jazz Festival, Rochester International Jazz Festival, and Jacksonville Jazz Festival. Clarence earned a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies from the University of North Florida as well as Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media from the Eastman School of Music. For more information, visit www.clarencehines.com.

Miles Osland

Miles Osland has distinguished himself as an educator, recording and performing artist, author, arranger and composer. Currently the Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Saxophone at the University of Kentucky, he has appeared throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia as a guest conductor, performer and clinician for Selmer Saxophones and Bay Woodwind mouthpieces. His compositions and arrangements, available through Walrus Music, have been recognized and supported by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Kentucky Arts Council, and by numerous other arts foundations. Professor Osland holds a Master’s degree from Eastman School of Music and his major teachers have included: Ramon Ricker & Gary Foster (saxophone), Charles Bay (clarinet) and Jim Walker (flute).

Ryan Heinlein

Dr. Ryan Heinlein is an Associate Professor of Music and Chair of the Music, Theater and Record Arts department at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, Kansas where he conducts the jazz and concert bands. He also teaches jazz improvisation, applied lessons and ear training. He holds degrees in trombone performance from Wichita State University and the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Ryan serves as the jazz education advisor to the Kansas Music Educator’s Association and is a highly sought after adjudicator and clinician. Ryan remains an active performer around the Midwest. His versatility has allowed him to play with groups such as the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, the Marcus Lewis Big Band, Michael Feinstein, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, the Buckinghams, the Four Tops. Making Movies, members of Los Lobos and Frankie Negron. Ryan has also released four recordings of original music with his group, The Project H.

Tom "Bones" Malone

Tom "Bones" Malone, who joined the CBS Orchestra in 1993, plays trombone, trumpet, bass trombone, alto sax, tenor sax, baritone sax, flute, piccolo and alto flute and has contributed more than 400 arrangements to the LATE SHOW. His feature film credits include "The Blues Brothers," "The Last Waltz" and "Blues Brothers 2000." He played in the original Saturday Night Band on "Saturday Night Live" for 10 years and was its musical director from 1981 to 1985. He has also performed and recorded with James Brown, Frank Zappa, Blood, Sweat & Tears, the Band, Miles Davis and Steve Winwood. As a studio musician, he has been heard on more than 1000 records and in more than 3000 radio and television commercials. Malone has also played themes for "CBS This Morning," "Murder, She Wrote" and the 1992 Olympic Winter Games, all on CBS. His solo album, Soul Bones, features guest appearances by Paul Shaffer and Blues Traveler's John Popper. Malone is originally from Sumrall, Miss., and lives in New York. 

Chris Scanlon

Christopher Scanlon, D.M.A., is Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Brass Area Coordinator at Northern Illinois University. Dr. Scanlon is a member of the award-winning Axiom Brass and the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra where he performs at the international festival in Switzerland. Dr. Scanlon has also performed at Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, on Broadway and at the festivals of Spoleto and Tanglewood where he received the Roger Voisin Award. Dr. Scanlon can be heard on Deutsche Grammophone, Naxos, Mode records and international streaming platforms such as medici.tv. An active soloist and clinician, Dr. Scanlon has performed or presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, International Women’s Brass Conference, Indiana Music Educators Conference and the International Trumpet Guild Conference, where Dr. Scanlon currently serves as Chair of the new Chamber Music Division of the ITG competitions. Dr. Scanlon is a Bach performing artist. www.chrisscanlonmusic.com

Michael Doyle

Michael was born and raised in New York City. He began his musical studies in elementary and junior high school studying under Arnold Warmbrand and Hiram Colon. He started playing professionally in high school and participated in Jazz workshops in New York City. Michael has performed with numerous Grammy winners, professional ensembles, and for a wide variety of productions. As an educator, Michael has taught and lectured on both high school and college levels representing Selmer saxophones and Rico reeds, and has recently been awarded a college post at Grand Rapids Community College. Michael received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Michigan University and a Master of Music degree in Jazz Studies from Michigan State University.

Dorival Puccini

Dorival Puccini is an active soloist, chamber musician, orchestral player, and educator. Dorival is a founding member of the Axiom Brass. His interest in chamber music has led him to contribute over a dozen transcriptions for brass quintet specially written for the Axiom Brass. Dorival holds a Bachelors degree in Music from Grand Valley State University, a Masters degree in Music Performance from the Juilliard School of Music, and a Doctoral degree from Michigan State University. He has studied with trumpet teachers Haroldo Paladino, Mark Gould, Michael Bowman, Richard Stoelzel and Stephen Burns. Dorival currently lives in Chicago, Illinois with his wife, violinist Rachelle Puccini, his daughter Valentina and his Chocolate Labrador, Godiva. During his free time, he enjoys cooking and cycling with Rachelle, teaching Godiva the art of soccer goal keeping and watching little Valentina smile.

Sarah Stoneback

Dr. Sarah Stoneback is the Trumpet Professor at Montana State University School of Music and holds the position of Principal Trumpet with the Bozeman Symphony. Her work as an active Conn Selmer Bach Artist/Clinician, trumpet soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer takes her around the globe performing in Germany, England, France, Switzerland, Chile, China and throughout the US. Stoneback has been featured with groups including the National Brass Quintet, the InterHarmony International Chamber Music Festival (Italy), Eurobrass, Bozeman Symphony Orchestra to name a few. Unique to Sarah is her distinguished reputation for her years soloing and performing as a member of Stoneback Sisters (Triplet Trumpet Trio) and Brass (Trumpet Quartet/Brass Quintet). In this capacity, she has been featured soloist with bands and orchestras including the St. Louis Symphony, John Philip Sousa Band, South Dakota Symphony and more.

Stanley Curtis

Stanley Curtis has developed a multi-faceted career as trumpeter, teacher, composer and early-music performer. After studying at the University of Alabama, the Cleveland Institute of Music and in the Netherlands on a Fulbright Scholarship, he received his Doctor of Music degree from Indiana University in 2005. He has taught at George Mason University and served as Historic Trumpet Division chair of the National Trumpet Competition. Having retired from a 20-year career in the U.S. Navy Band in Washington, D.C., he was appointed to the position of Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Colorado State University in 2018. In 2022 he became President of the Historic Brass Society. He is the principal trumpet of the Fort Collins Symphony and principal cornet of the Colorado Brass. An album of his own compositions, entitled Refracted Light, was released in 2019 on the Arts Laureate label, and his latest album, Orbits of Infinity, was released in 2022 on the Tōnsehen label. Stanley blogs on his own Trumpet Journey website.

Sean Flanigan

An accomplished trombone soloist and teacher in the classical, jazz and commercial genres, Sean Flanigan is a professor at Colorado Mesa University. Dr. Flanigan has been featured as trombone soloist throughout the United States and abroad; presented solo recitals and clinics at the National Conservatory in Caracas, Venezuela; guest artist (with the Empire Brass and Jacques Mauger of the Paris Conservatory) at El Sistema’s Ibero-American Brass Festival in Barquisimeto, Venezuela; invited numerous times to return to Venezuela to perform, conduct and teach for El Sistema, the world-famous orchestral training system; backed such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Heath, Clark Terry, Urbie Green, Temptations, Johnny Mathis, Jack Jones, touring Broadway shows; recorded for television, radio and commercial CDs; DMA from University of North Texas and student of Vern Kagarice; MM and BS degrees from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign, student of Robert Gray.

Peter Steiner

Trombonist - touring the world with his signature Bach A7XPS. Italian trombonist Peter Steiner’s playing has been described as “beautifully controlled with a vocal sound” and he is recognized around the world as “a new trombone star within his generation” who “plays with total control”. Learn more about Peter at steinerpeter.com

Brad Leali

“His solos are sparkling and Cannonball Adderley influenced" (Evening Standard, London). “Saxophonist Brad Leali was among the most soulful and exciting I’ve heard recently” (New York Times). With a unique style and sound, which echoes the influences of his past, Brad Leali is one of the most notable saxophonists of current times. A native of Denver, Colorado, Brad was raised in the Baptist Church. In addition to gospel music, he spent countless hours listening to the music his parents played (Coltrane, Cannonball, Bird, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and Nancy Wilson). It’s no wonder that at a very young age, he was able to combine gospel, jazz, and R&B into his playing. As a child, Brad recalls spending time looking through old yearbook photos of his father in the high school jazz band, looking sharp and clean. He was so enamored by these images that he found himself opening the case, time and time again, to see the beautiful horn from the photos. He finally told his father that he just had to play. That very day, his father had the horn repaired and signed Brad up for the Denver Junior Police Concert Band. That began his long love affair with the saxophone. While studying the saxophone, Brad spent his youthful years listening to live jazz at many Denver music venues. One in particular was named El Chapultapec, owned by Jerry Krantz. Krantz loved jazz and would allow young musicians, such as Brad, to listen, learn, and sit in. It was here that Brad first heard many of his early mentors and local legends (Billy Tolles, Billy Wallace, Homer Brown, Nat Yarborough, etc.). He also got to hear and study with other jazz greats, such as trumpeter Clark Terry and saxophonist Eddie “Cleanhead” Vincent. Leali received a bachelor of arts degree in music education from the University of North Texas in 1989, where he played with the world-renowned One O’Clock Lab Band. Upon graduating, the Harry Connick, Jr. Orchestra immediately recruited him. In his tenure with the orchestra (1989-1994), Brad was the lead alto saxophonist and the musical director. During this time, they toured the world and the orchestra recorded two highly acclaimed CDs (Blue Light, Red Light [1991], When My Heart Finds Christmas [1993]). By invitation of Frank Foster, Brad then joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1995 (later under Grover Mitchell, 2003). During his years with the group, the Basie band was a two-time Grammy award-winning orchestra. It was one of the greatest musical learning experiences he’d ever had. Working with older musicians only deepened his appreciation of the importance of this music. Spending time one-on-one with the likes of Joe Williams was unforgettable in these formative years. During his time as one of the top jazz musicians in New York City, Leali was a staple in legendary jazz venues like the Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Iridium, and Birdland. He also has performed in Lincoln Center in the orchestras of jazz legends Nancy Wilson and Benny Golson. Brad’s desire to pay it forward and help keep jazz alive led him to earn a master’s degree from Rutgers University in 2005. He was quickly appointed as Director of Jazz Studies at Texas Tech University. While there, several scholarships were established in his name, including the “Brad Leali Endowed Jazz Scholarship.” In 2008, Brad joined the esteemed University of North Texas (UNT) faculty as Professor of Jazz Saxophone, where he directs small group ensembles and teaches jazz performance fundamentals and jazz saxophone. As the recipient of the UNT Creative Impact Award in 2014, Brad was recognized as a distinguished faculty member for his outstanding contributions as an educator who perpetuates the value of creative development and performance. Brad Leali has also had a prolific recording career. His first solo recording was Priority Soul! in 1998 on the New Jazz Renaisssance Recordings label. In 1999, the Count Basie Orchestra won a Grammy award for Count Plays Duke with Leali receiving his own nomination for his solo work on the classic Billy Strayhorn composition, "The Star-Crossed Lovers." His discography also includes Live in Europe (Brad Leali Quartet, 2004); Brooklyn Soul Organization (also produced by Leali, 2004); the critically acclaimed Maria Juanez (2006), which features his own compositions and an eighteen-member jazz orchestra; and DA’s Time (Brad Leali-Claus Raible Quartet, 2008) on the TCB label. Leali’s numerous television appearances include local news programs, “NBC’s TODAY,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The Arsenio Hall Show,” BET, and the “Harry Connick, Jr. Christmas Special.” He performed annually for many years as part of the Kennedy Center Honors program. Leali also performed at President Obama’s inaugural celebration “We Are One.” While Brad continues teaching at UNT, he frequently performs, tours, and records. He also enjoys working as a guest artist, clinician, and adjudicator at other educational institutions.

Ben Fairfield

Ben Fairfield is the Principal Trumpet of the Abilene (TX) Philharmonic, Co-Principal Trumpet of the West Texas Symphony (Midland, TX), and a member of the Lone Star Brass Quintet. He also performs as a guest member of trumpet sections throughout the United States. Previously, he performed in the orchestras of the Florida Grand Opera and the Miami City Ballet in Miami, FL. Ben is a veteran of the United States Army, performing as a member of the United States Continental Army Band at Ft. Monroe, VA. He has also performed at the conferences of the International Trumpet Guild, the Texas Music Educators Association, and the Virginia Music Educators Association. Ben resides in Arlington, TX where he teaches students in the Dallas area. He holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from James Madison University and graduate degrees (MM, DMA) in trumpet performance from the University of Miami Frost School of Music. His teachers include Craig Morris, Gilbert Johnson, and James Kluesner.

Vernon Richter

Vernon Richter is a native of San Antonio, Texas and began playing trumpet in Houston, Texas at the age of eleven. His formal education in trumpet began in 1984 at East Texas State University (currently Texas A&M Commerce) as a Music Performance Major.Vernon is active as a freelance musician and adjudicator in the DFW area. He is arguably one of the areas busiest private trumpet instructors with a studio of over 75 students all from Lewisville ISD. In addition to his private teaching schedule, Vernon also conducts weekly Trumpet Master Classes at the award winning Hebron High School in Lewisville ISD. Vernon is a regular substitute with the Richardson Symphony and has performed with the East Texas Symphony, Lewisville Symphony, Mesquite Symphony and Flower Mound Symphony. He resides in Lake Dallas with his wife of 31 years, Dana, and their border collie, Sadie.

Brian Walker

Brian Walker is Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. He previously taught at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, the University of North Texas and The Florida State University as well as privately in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. He currently teaches a full studio of twenty music major and non-major trumpet players at Tarleton State.Dr. Walker holds degrees from the University of North Texas (DMA), The Florida State University (MM) and Southeastern Oklahoma State (BM). His primary teachers include Michael Miles, Iskander Akhmadullin, Christopher Moore, John Holt, Keith Johnson and Adam Gordon. As a performer he has appeared with many groups in the DFW region including (but not limited to) the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Dallas Opera, Plano, Allen, Arlington, Las Colinas, Irving, Garland, and Dallas Chamber Orchestras.

Lacey Phelps

Internationally celebrated trumpeter and musician entrepreneur, Dr. Lacey J. Phelps, enjoys a multi-faceted career as a soloist, chamber musician, and clinician. She is the Director of DFW Brass and has judged for The National Trumpet Competition and performed at multiple International Trumpet Guild Conferences. She previously worked in the Verdi Opera House in Italy, has performed as a soloist with the Sofia Philharmonic (Bulgaria), has played with Johnny Mathis and for Broadway Tours including A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Matilida, and An American in Paris. Other notable performances include The Vatican (Rome), Carnegie Hall (New York), Classical Music Festival (Austria), Spoleto (Italy), Spoleto USA, Musica Riva Festival (Italy), Aspen Music Festival, Blue Lake, Interlochen, International Brass Festival (Mexico), Alfredo de San Malo Festival (Panama), Le Domain Forget (Canada), Aldeburgh Festival (England), Festival de Musique (France), and Campos do Jordao (Brazil). In addition to national broadcasts in multiple countries, she has recorded in 11 countries on 3 continents including for NPR’s Pipe Dreams, Glor Music Productions, Lobo Productions, and Hal Leonard. As an educator, she has taught at the collegiate and secondary levels for two decades. Dr. Phelps holds degrees from The University of Oklahoma (BM, BME, DMA) as well as Rice University (MM).

Travis Harris

Mr. Travis E. Harris is originally from the Texas Gulf coast area where he attended Lamar University and received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Trombone Performance. From there he attended The University of North Texas in pursuit of a Master of Music Degree in Jazz Studies where he was a member of the award winning and nationally acclaimed Two O’clock Lab Band. In the interim, Mr. Harris earned his Texas Teaching Certification in Music EC-12 and became a full-time teacher. He has resided in the Denton area since 1993 and enjoys spending time with his wife, Maria, and their four children Michael, Jonathan, Abby and Travy. Mr. Harris was a full time professional musician for nearly 20 years. During this time he became very well known nationally as a trombonist, musical director and writer/arranger for live performances and concerts as well as studio appearances. Mr. Harris has toured nationally and internationally with the Bill Tillman Band, based in Dallas, and performed with groups such as The Temptations, The Fifth Dimension, Percy Sledge and The Platters, The O’Jays and many more. He has many national awards including two Downbeat Magazine DB awards, a Dove Award Nomination and a Grammy Award Nomination on Dave Alexander’s most recent album, Alexander’s Good Time Band. He also appeared on the two most recent albums presented by Imperial Brass, Feeling Good and Jazzy Christmas where he played Lead Trombone and numerous solo’s. Travis still performs publicly on average three nights per week and has been voted the 3-time winner of the Top Cover Trombonist in Dallas by Music Snippets Forum. In addition to being a free-lance musician he continues to make public school and university concert appearances as a guest soloist, clinician and guest conductor. In addition to his hectic public performance schedule, Travis is a middle school band director in Denton, Tx. His bands consistently receive the highest accolades available for their age group and classification including their 3rd National Award from The Foundation for Music Education. He is also a highly sought-after clinician for Middle and High School Wind and Jazz bands. He has served as guest clinician and conductor for Middle and High School All Region bands throughout the state of Texas and always brings a repertoire that’s exciting for the audience and educational for the students. Travis has proudly played Bach Trombones, exclusively, for over 30 years. He plays a Bach 42B and Bach 36B paired with Denis Wick 5BL and 5BS for classical performances and a Bach 12 paired with a Denis Wick 10CS for Jazz, Lead and R&B performances

Nick Finzer

Award winning musician Nick Finzer is a jazz trombonist and composer whose musical prowess is firmly planted with one foot in the past and another leading to the future. In January of 2013 Nick released his recording debut as a bandleader “Exposition” on his new label Outside in Music. “Exposition” presents Finzer’s unique musical lens, featuring ten original compositions that draw on the multifaceted influences that have shaped his musical development. The onset of Nick’s love for jazz came through an exploration of Duke Ellington’s music during his high school years. Duke’s compositions like “Harlem Airshaft” and “In a Sentimental Mood” started him on an irreversible musical journey. These experiences culminated in a performance of Elllington’s music as part of the Essentially Ellington Festival hosted by Jazz at Lincoln Center, which ignited Nick’s ambition to move to New York City to pursue a life in music. During this time Finzer also came under the tutelage of former Jazz at Lincoln Center Trombonist, Wycliffe Gordon. This relationship developed into a four year commission project in which Gordon wrote four pieces to feature Nick during his undergraduate studies at the Eastman School of Music. While studying at Eastman, Nick was able to play with many musicians who came through Rochester, New York including engagements with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, Walt Weiskopf, John Clayton and Slide Hampton. Since moving to New York City in 2010, Finzer has completed a Masters Degree from The Juilliard School, shared the stage with the likes of Frank Wess at Dizzy’s Club, Lew Tabackin and Terrell Stafford at The Blue Note, Lewis Nash and Ryan Truesdell’s Gil Evans Project at Jazz Standard, and Nick continues to lead his own bands around the city and across the country. While at Juilliard Nick had the opportunity to work with many mentors including Frank Kimbrough, Carl Allen, Ray Drummond, and studied under jazz trombone innovator, Steve Turre. Nick was selected as a recipient of a 2013 ASCAP Young Jazz Composers award for his composition Alternate Agenda (which appears on “Exposition”). In 2011 Nick was the winner of the Eastern Trombone Workshop’s National Jazz Trombone Competition and was a finalist in the 2010 International Trombone Association’s Carl Fontana Jazz Trombone Competition. Nick currently serves as CoFounder and Artistic Director of the Institute for Creative Music (www.ifcmusic.org), which is dedicated to the education and dissemination of jazz and creative music across the US. In both 2012 and 2013 the IfCM won a “Great Classrooms” grant award from the Plum Creek Foundation funding week long residencies in the state of Montana. Since IfCM’s founding in 2011 Nick has lead workshops, masterclasses, and residencies spanning from coast to coast. Additionally, Nick has worked with students from universities like the Eastman School of Music, Penn State, Ithaca College, Gonzaga University, University of Montana, and Arizona State University, to name a few. He has also served on the faculty of the Eastman Summer Jazz Camp, and Juilliard Jazz Summer Camps in West Palm Beach, Florida and Ephraim, Utah. In New York, Nick maintains an active teaching schedule with the Jazz Standard Discovery Program which includes informational jazz performances/presentations for elementary school students, coaching small ensembles, and weekly performances at Jazz Standard. Nick’s current projects include his sextet featuring music from “Exposition”, a chordless trio that performs monthly at Bar Next Door, a twotrombone duo with fellow Juilliard alumnus Joe McDonough, and freelancing with various ensembles and shows around the city. Nick continues to perform, compose, and teach while maintaining an active touring schedule, and formulating new projects. Finzer is determined to continually develop his artistry from the lineage of the music, while being honest to his musical voice and personality.

Sarah Roberts

Dr. Sarah Roberts is Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Texas at Tyler teaching Saxophone and Jazz Studies. Her duties at UT Tyler include conducting the UT Tyler Jazz Ensemble, Jazz Combos, teaching jazz improvisation, instructing and maintaining the saxophone studio, and conducting the saxophone ensemble. The UT Tyler Saxophone Ensemble was just selected to be performers at the 2018 Texas Music Educators Association Convention held in San Antonio, Texas. With an extremely diverse background in classical, jazz, and popular music; Dr. Roberts has performed with a gamut of ensembles ranging from traditional saxophone quartets, to new music groups, to rock bands, to jazz groups and all points in between. In the East Texas area, Dr. Roberts frequently performs with her self-titled jazz quartet (Sarah Roberts Quartet) and other local jazz ensembles including The Jazz Connection. In addition, she has been a saxophonist for various orchestras including the Plano Symphony, Irving Symphony, and San Angelo Symphony; has been a substitute saxophonist with the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Lonestar Wind Orchestra, and Allen Philharmonic Winds; and is a member of Kris Berg’s Metroplexity Big Band. Through her performances with the Metroplexity Big Band she has shared the stage with such musicians as Phil Woods, Tom Bones Malone, Wayne Bergeron, Kirk Whalum, Chris Vadala, to name a few. Dr. Roberts has also been a frequent saxophonist for the American R&B group, The O’Jays. Furthermore, she has presented recitals and lectures throughout the United States including presentations at discipline specific conventions for such organizations as the North American Saxophone Alliance and the Jazz Education Network. In January 2018, Dr. Roberts was the featured guest artist for Linn-Mar High School’s Java and Jazz annual event in Marion, Iowa. She has also been the guest artist with the Southeastern Oklahoma State University’s jazz band for their annual jazz festival in 2012; and in 2014 she was the Artist-in-Residence with the Southeast Iowa Symphony. In February 2017, Dr. Roberts was the featured soloist with the Mineola Middle School Band for their TMEA Honor Band Performance where she premiered a work specifically commissioned for the event. In April 2017, she was the featured soloist for the Canton High school Band’s annual gala. In addition, as a member of the Dallas-based Metroplexity Big Band and can be heard on their two albums Time Management and This Time/Last Year. Dr. Roberts can also be heard on the University of North Texas Two O’Clock album, Too Two, several North Texas Wind Ensemble recordings, and Tom Walker’s Gospel Train Big Band album. As an adjudicator, Dr. Roberts is frequently a judge for various festivals and compsitions such as the Frisco Jazz Festival and the Collin College Jazz Festival in addition to other festivals throughout the state of Texas. Furthermore, Dr. Roberts has been the regional clinician for various TMEA and ATSSB all-region jazz festivals throughout Texas and has been the conductor of the TISD all-city band festival. She is also on the faculty of the Texas All-Star Jazz Camp a summer camp held at Collin College and serves as the band conductor for the Green Acres Middle School Band Camp. Throughout the academic year, Dr. Roberts serves as the conductor for the Tyler Community Band. Since 2015, Dr. Roberts has been a member of the East Texas Youth Orchestra board serving first as the University Liason, then as the Secretary and Vice-President of the organization. In Fall 2017, Dr. Roberts created and implemented the ETYO’s first-ever Jazz Academy providing youth in East Texas the opportunity to study and perform America’s music, jazz. The 2017-18 season will be the Jazz Academy’s inaugural season of performances. Furthermore, Dr. Roberts has founded two initiatives at The University of Texas at Tyler aimed at bringing students to campus for high-level instruction and performance. First, she hosts the UT Tyler Saxophone Day each spring that brings over 60 saxophonists to campus for a day of clinics, workshops, and performances with her and several guest artists each year. Students work on all styles of playing and have the opportunity to perform in a mass saxophone ensemble combining all Saxophone Day participants! Second, in September 2015, Dr. Roberts developed and implemented The University of Texas at Tyler All-Region Workshops that have brought hundreds of high school students from across East Texas to campus for a day-long workshop where participants learn strategies for successful preparation of their audition etudes. Currently, Dr. Roberts is serving her professional community as the President of the Texas Jazz Educators Association and is the college representative for Region 21 of the Texas Music Educators Association. Dr. Roberts completed her doctorate of musical arts degree in saxophone performance from the University of North Texas in August 2015. She also holds dual master of music degrees in saxophone performance and jazz studies from the University of North Texas and dual undergraduate degrees in saxophone performance and jazz studies from the University of Michigan. Her primary saxophone teachers include Donald Sinta, Donald Walden, Eric Nestler, and Jim Riggs. Dr. Roberts is a Vandoren Regional Artist and performs exclusively on Selmer and Vandoren products.

Julee Kim Walker

A native Houstonian, flutist Julee Kim Walker remains an active performer and pedagogue in the Dallas-Ft. Worth metroplex. She is Associate Professor of Flute at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Prior to her appointment, she held teaching positions at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Grayson College, Eastfield College, and the University of North Texas. She received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master’s degree from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She received the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of North Texas. Dr. Walker serves on the Board of Directors in the Texas Flute Society as Vice President, and is Artistic Director of the annual Texas Summer Flute Symposium. As a versatile chamber musician, she has performed and recorded with the jazz chamber group, Evan Weiss Project, and with the rock band Oso Closo. Julee has also performed and recorded with the North Texas Wind Symphony under Eugene Corporon, where she can be heard on the Klavier Wind Project, GIA WindWorks and the “Teaching Music through Performance in Band” series from 2005-2009. As a soloist, she has performed with the American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Southeastern Symphonic Winds, Texas A&M University-Commerce Wind Ensemble, Banda Sinfônica de Cubatão in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and with the Dallas Asian Wind Ensemble. She has also performed at the Texas Music Educators Association, Texas Bandmasters Association, and the World Association for Symphonic Bands and Ensembles conventions. Julee has also performed with notable flutists such as Ian Clarke, Amy Porter, and Carol Wincenc. ​ Overseas, she was flutist for the Austrian American Mozart Academy Opera Festival in Salzburg, Austria for 4 seasons, and has also performed as Principal flutist with the Franco-American Vocal Academy Opera Festival in Perigueux, France. Recent engagements include a recital and masterclasses in Shanghai, China in March 2019. ​ An esteemed teacher, Dr. Walker was the 2020 and 2016 recipient of the Paul W. Barrus Distiguished Faculty Award for Teaching, and is highly sought-after as a clinician, adjudicator, teacher and performer. She has. taught masterclasses all over the U.S., as well as in China, Brazil, Italy, Argentina and Chile. ​ As an adjudicator, Dr. Walker has adjudicated for the UIL Texas State Solo and Ensemble Competition, MTNA State and Regional Competition, Sigma Alpha Iota Triennial, the Mid-South Flute Society, Houston Flute Club, the Texas Flute Society’s Myrna Brown Competition and the National Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition and Professional Flute Choir Competition. She serves as an Executive Board Member and Jobs Editor for the National Flute Association. ​ Dr. Walker performs regulary with the Fort Worth Symphony, Sherman Symphony Orchestra, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, The Dallas Opera, The Dallas Winds, and with Lyric Stage (Irving), and has also performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Abilene Philharmonic, Shreveport Symphony, Las Colinas Symphony and Amarillo Symphony Orchestras. She is also a member of FlutAria! professional trio. Her principal teachers include Terri Sundberg, Tim Day, Karl Kraber, Christina Jennings, and September Payne,.

Carolyn Keyes

Flutist, educator, and arts advocate Dr. Carolyn Keyes brings infectious creativity and passion to every aspect of her career. From the concert stage to the classroom and the community, she is committed to sharing the wonders of music making with the world. Carolyn’s love of performing has taken her around the United States: most recently to join the faculty of Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. Since moving to back to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, she has also reunited with guitarist Tim Courtney to form dZuo, an eclectic chamber ensemble specializing in original transcriptions of everything from traditional Japanese music to punk rock. Previously, previously Carolyn was a member of the Longmont Symphony in Colorado, the Lone Star Wind Orchestra in Dallas, Texas, and was a frequent performer with the Cheyenne Symphony in Wyoming. Carolyn was a finalist and prize winner in the Bruce Ekstrand Memorial Competition and received honorable mentions in the National Flute Association Masterclass Competition and the Texas MTNA Woodwind Young Artist Competition. In her teaching practice, Dr. Keyes continually strives to find innovative ways to empower her students. In the spring of 2011, she developed and implemented a class on creativity for the undergraduate flutists at the University of Colorado. She utilized exercises from creative writing and theater, along with original exercises, to help the students hone their creative process. She also organized a “scale relay race” to help her high school students improve their technique while having fun and working in teams. Currently, Dr. Keyes is an adjunct instructor at Tarleton State University. Prior to this year, she taught flute, flute choir, and various academic courses at Cameron University. She has also held positions as a lecturer at the University of Colorado, and as flute faculty at the Dallas School of Music, DanaVMusic, and the Jan Angle Memorial Conservatory. As a recipient of the Priddy Fellowship in Arts Leadership, Carolyn is committed to supporting the arts in schools and the community. In 2014, she served as the administrator for the Longmont Youth Symphony and participated in the Longmont Symphony’s Mentors in Music program, which provides expert instruction to schools in low income districts. Carolyn interned with the Shropshire Music Foundation, a nonprofit organization that teaches music to war torn children in Europe and Africa, where she helped to organize their first annual “Practice for Peace” fundraiser. In 2011 she published an article on the role of imagination and the arts in a democratic education in the independent interdisciplinary journal, Consortium. Carolyn received a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Flute Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Colorado. Her previous studies include a master’s degree from the University of North Texas and bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University. Her major teachers include Christina Jennings, Terri Sundberg, Elizabeth McNutt, Leonard Garrison, Nina Assimakopolous, and Judith Bentley. Carolyn continues to study the shakuhachi (Japanese bamboo flute) with David Yudo Sawyer.

Kimberly Cole Luevano

With reviews such as “a most skillful artist” (Fanfare Magazine), “breathtaking…” (The Clarinet), “virtuosic tone and technique”(Tampa Bay Times), “exceptionally sensitive and introspective rendition” (The Clarinet), Kimberly Cole Luevano continually establishes herself as a formidable soloist and chamber musician.  Luevano joined the University of North Texas faculty in 2011 and served as a member of the clarinet faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp from 2003 to 2012.   She was Pedagogy Chairperson for the International Clarinet Association from 2012 to 2014 and has presented acclaimed solo and chamber performances, adjudicated, and presented masterclasses on four continents. She has performed at the International Clarinet Association’s ClarinetFest® on numerous occasions. Luevano’s students have been finalists in the ICA competitions, and former students now occupy performing and teaching positions throughout the United States and Canada. With pianist Midori Koga and soprano Lindsay Kesselman, she forms the trio, Haven, “….A refuge for the creation of new music for soprano, clarinet, and piano.” Luevano’s disc of world premiere recordings with HAVEN, “Atonement,” was released on the Fleur de Son label in 2015 and was considered in the GRAMMY nomination process. HAVEN recently garnered a 2015 Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning grant to partner with composer Jon Magnussen to create a new work, “Twinge.” Another world premiere CD featuring American works for clarinet and piano, “Bright Angel,” was released in 2013 on the Fleur de Son label to critical acclaim: Naxos Deutschland wrote “kraftvoll und glänzen durch hervorragende Motivarbeit” (vibrant, and shine through superb motivic work) while Sequenza 21 wrote, “their performances are exquisite as is their ensemble chemistry…” An active chamber musician, Luevano is also featured in several other chamber music releases on the Albany and Centaur labels, among others. Luevano, a versatile freelance musician, has performed as a member of the Michigan Opera Theater Orchestra, as principal clarinetist of the Ann Arbor, Lansing, Toledo, and Traverse Symphony Orchestras, with the Detroit and Windsor (Canada) Symphony Orchestras, and with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band, among others. As an advocate of contemporary American repertoire, Luevano spearheaded consortiums to commission works for clarinet from composers Evan Chambers and Roshanne Etezady and recorded Michael Daugherty’s “Brooklyn Bridge” with the UNT Wind Symphony in 2015 for distribution on the GIA label. Luevano is founder and director of UNT’s summer workshop program for high school and middle school students, ClarEssentials, which debuted in 2011. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico where she studied with Keith Lemmons, Luevano studied in Paris, France with Guy Deplus and Alain Damiens as the recipient of a U. S. Government Fulbright Grant and a Kade Fellowship. Luevano also received performance fellowships to the Blossom Festival and the National Orchestral Institute and was a prizewinner in competitions such as the International Clarinet Association Young Artist Competition, the Oklahoma City Young Artists Competition, and the Coleman Chamber Music Competition. She earned graduate degrees at Michigan State University where she studied with Elsa Ludewig-Verdehr and her undergraduate degree at the University of North Texas where she studied with James Gillespie.  Prior to her appointment at the University of North Texas, she was Professor of Clarinet at Eastern Michigan University for fifteen years. Luevano plays and endorses Selmer Paris instruments and is a D’Addario and Company Performing Artist. She resides in Corinth with her husband and two sons.