Trombone studio

Trombone studio

Recent

Declan Wilcox—BM 2021. Wilcox will begin the MM in trombone performance at Yale University in fall 2021.

Aaron Zalkind—DMA 2021. BM Indiana University 2015. MM The Juilliard School 2017. Zalkind recently won the audition for principal trombone in the New Mexico Philharmonic. He was 2nd prize winner in the 2019 Steven Zellmer Trombone Competition; 1st prize winner in the 2019 International Women’s Brass Conference orchestral mock audition; 1st prize in the 2019 International Women’s Brass Conference military band mock audition. He has attended the 2018 Aspen Music Festival as a member of the Avery Brass Quintet in the American Brass Quintet Seminar, the 2019 Texas Music Festival and has been a member of the National Repertory Orchestra.

Mira Hickey—BME 2021. Beginning Fall 2021, Hickey will be teaching 6-8th grade band and orchestra at Discovery Canyon Middle School in Colorado Springs.

Douglas Sternberg—BM 2021. Sternberg will be entering the master's program in Recording Arts at CU Denver in Fall 2021.

Kenny Ross—MM 2020. Ross was the winner of the 2019 International Women’s Brass Conference Category 1 bass trombone solo competition, 3rd place overall; he was chosen as a Participant in the 2019 Christian Lindberg masterclass at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival (only US representative) and was chosen as an Associate for the 2019 Cleveland Trombone Seminar. Ross will begin the DMA at the University of North Texas in fall 2021.

Bill Combs—DMA 2019. BM/BME Texas Tech 2011. MM University of Denver 2013. Performance Certificate DU 2014. Combs's dissertation included a search for 21st-century sonatas for trombone and piano and a detailed performer’s analysis of several selected works. He recently joined our armed services and will be performing in the U.S. Army Regional Bands.

Yutaro Yazawa—BM 2019. Yazawa will be relocating to Japan for further study, teaching and freelancing.

Jose Leonardo Leon—DMA 2018. MM University of Miami 2011. BM Florida International University 2008. Leon is currently trombone instructor at Florida Atlantic University and at Florida Gulf Coast University. His Pedagogy Project in the DMA is a dual-language orchestral except book for low brass instruments of major works by Latin American and Spanish composers. His final project is a recording of newer works by Latin American and American composers with whom he had direct collaboration. It was awarded a Silver Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the 2018 Global Music Awards.

Megan Dudek—BM 2018. MM University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music 2020.

Ben Garcia—BM 2018. MM Indiana University in 2021.

Brandon Bird—BM 2016. MM Northwestern University 2018. Bird recently accepted a position on the orchestra personnel staff of the St. Louis Symphony.

Theo Koelsch—BA Music, BA Chemistry, BA Bio-Chemistry 2017. PhD program in Chemistry with a sub-field of Chemical Biology at Yale University in fall 2017.

Mason Jackson—BM and BME 2016. Jackson taught at Western Sierra Collegiate Academy in Rocklin, CA and at St. Paul American School in Shanghai, China. He is currently teaching HS band in Merced, CA.

Reid Lasley—BM 2016. MM and DMA University of Illinois.

Jamey Morgan—BM 2016. Performers Certificate at Penn State University, MM at Michigan State University where he is in the DMA program. He was selected as co-winner of the 2020 International Trombone Association Alto Trombone Competition, and also as co-winner of the 2020 ITA Frank Smith Tenor Trombone Competition.

Mary Mixter—BM in trombone performance and BM in composition with highest honors 2012. MM in composition University of North Texas 2016.