Trumpet

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Recent guest artists and presenters have included:

• Romain Leleu, French trumpet soloist
• Wayne Bergeron, LA Studio Musician and Jazz Trumpeter
  
• Marie Speziale, Cincinnati Symphony and Rice University Shepherd School of Music (retired)
  
• Langston Fitzgerald, Baltimore Symphony and Penn State School of Music
  
• The US Army Field Band, Brass Quintet

Festivals/Competitions/Summer Activities/Audition

• NAIRAM SIMOES, AMY SCHAAF, JENNA VEVERKA, and STEPHEN M. WADSACK, National Trumpet Competition, 3rd Place (2016)
• NATHAN SHEPPARD, U.S. Army Band Program (2014)
• RICO FLORES, Principal Trumpet, Orquesta Sinfonica de la Univesrsidad de Guanajuato (2014)
• TIERNEY MCLEAN, 3rd Trumpet, Symphony of the Lakes (2014)
• ADRIENNE DOCTOR, winner, Pershing's Own Army Band (2013)
• DANIEL ARUTE, Runner-Up, 2nd Trumpet Ann Arbor Symphony (2013)
• DANIEL ARUTE, Principal Trumpet, Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra (2013)
• JOEL BAROODY, winner, Coast Guard Band (2011).
• KYLE RUTH, Principal Trumpet, Central Opera of Beijing, China. (2011)
• DAVID WUCHTER, winner, U.S. Air Force Band of Flight, Dayton, OH (2011)
• ADRIENNE DOCTOR, Yamaha Young Artist Competition Finalist(2010).
• DANIEL ARUTE, Blue Lake Staff
• BRISTON HATCHELL, Blue Lake Staff
• ROBBY MOSER, Aspen Music Festival Participant

Professional Appointments

• GEORGE CARPTEN IV, Trumpet Instructor, Northern Kentucky University
• CHRISTIAN LUCE, Member US Army Band
• BARRETT NEWMAN, Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps
• ADRIENNE DOCTOR, Pershing's Own US Army Band, Washington, D.C.
• DANIEL ARUTE, US Navy Band
• JOEL BAROODY, US Coast Guard Band, New London, CN
• DAVID WUCHTER, US Air Force Band of Flight, Dayton, OH
• KYLE RUTH, Principal Trumpet, Central Opera of Beijing, China
• RORY POWELL, Beckfield College, Cincinnati, OH
• SCOTT BELCK, Director of Jazz Studies, College Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati, OH
• STEPHEN CAMPBELL, Principal Trumpet, Lima Symphony Orchestra
• BRIANA REICHGOTT, music Instructor at the Pinnacle School in Bloomington, IN
• JUSTIN STAMPS, 2nd trumpet, Boise Philharmonic Orchestra
• DANIEL ZEHRINGER, Assistant professor of trumpet at Wright State University
• ADAM HAYES, Artist/Professor in Residence at Berry College in Rome, Georgia.  Principal trumpet, Albany (GA) Symphony.
• JAMES ACKLEY, Associate Professor of trumpet at the University of South Carolina.
• BRYAN CRISP, Adjunct Trumpet Instructor at Wittenberg University in Springfield, OH.
• DIANA MILLER, Teaching Assistantship at Western Illinois University.
• MATTHEW FARLEY, Director of bands, Liberty High School (Bedford, Virginia).
• ASHLEY HALL, 3rd trumpet in Dayton Philharmonic, internationally recognized soloist.
• JASON SANDERS, US Army Band “Pershing’s Own”
• GUNNAR BRUNING, US Navy Band, Washington, DC.
• CHRIS PAGNARD, US Air Force Band, Washington, DC.
• JOHN IRISH, Professor of Trumpet and Horn at San Angelo State College, San Angelo, Texas.
• AMY JONES, Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet at Morehead State University
• GORDON HANN, Principal Trumpet of the Piedmont Symphony in Hickoty North Carolina.
• VALENTIN LUKASHUK, US Navy Band, Washington, D.C.

Please note the following information regarding studio scale requirements. All semesters are cumulative. All exercises should be prepared tongued and slurred.