ECM Personnel

Kevin Woelfel, Director

Kevin Woelfel joins the University of Colorado as the Director of the Entrepreneurship Center for the College of Music. His diversity in the music industry includes performance, composition and manufacturing.

At age nineteen, Mr. Woelfel's performance career began by winning the Third/Assistant Principal Trumpet position with the Spokane Symphony. In the years that followed, Kevin has performed with many orchestras including the Chicago Lyric Opera, Grant Park Orchestra, Rhode Island Philharmonic, Madison Symphony, Milwaukee Symphony, Sacramento Symphony, Naples Philharmonic, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Aspen Festival Orchestra, and the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra. He has also been active in the jazz and pop fields and has played with the Larry Elgart Orchestra, the Moody Blues, Manhattan Transfer, Third World and numerous touring productions.

As a composer and arranger, Mr. Woelfel was with the U.S. Air Force band stationed in Vacaville, California and Yokota, Japan. He has also written and arranged for many private projects, including several docudramas produced for air on National Public Radio.

An entrepreneur, Kevin has founded two manufacturing companies: WolfPak Incorporated, and Rocky Mountain Case Works. Both companies produce high-end music instrument cases for international distribution. He was also the Director of Operations for the David G. Monette Corporation, manufacturer of exclusive custom trumpets.

Mr. Woelfel holds a B.M. Cum Laud, from Washington State University in Pullman, Washington. He was a member of the faculty brass quintet and studied trumpet with Prof. Gerald Webster. Kevin received his M.M. from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He studied composition with Dr. Les Thimmig, trumpet with Prof. John Aley, and was a member of the faculty ensemble, the Wisconsin Brass Quintet.

Jennifer Sloan, Graduate Assistant

Jennifer Sloan, oboist, received her Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance, Magna Cum Laude from the Louisiana State University. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles for graduate studies in Oboe Performance.   Ms. Sloan was awarded the Dean's Scholarship and a position in the USC Scholarship Woodwind Quintet.   Her principle teacher at USC was Allan Vogel, principle of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Several USC student films feature performances by Ms. Sloan in the studio orchestra.

While in the Los Angeles area, Ms. Sloan maintained an active performance schedule as a freelance musician and held the position of Instructor of Oboe at the Seoul Academy of Music.   She was also employed as a public relations counselor for Barbara Shelley Public Relations, a music publicity firm in Los Angeles. While at BSPR she was responsible for orchestrating artist television bookings, interviews, album reviews, and print features.

Ms. Sloan is currently pursuing her M.M. in Oboe Performance with Professor James Brody. She is a member of Arundo Winds, Woodwind Quintet-in-Residence at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In the spring of 2004, Arundo Winds was invited to perform and to hold clinics in the Aspen area by the Aspen Music Festival Artists Outreach Series. A brief vignette from the week-long event has been included on the Aspen Music Festival website.