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WCU Trumpet Festival
Host
Dr. P. Bradley Ulrich |
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Dr. P. Bradley Ulrich, Professor of Music, has been the Trumpet Professor Western Carolina University since 1989. Dr. Ulrich received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Trumpet Performance from the Florida State University where he studied with Bryan Goff. His Master of Music and Doctor of Musical Arts degrees in Trumpet Performance and Literature were awarded from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he studied with Ray Sasaki and Michael Tunnell. He has had additional lessons with Raymond Mase, George Vosburgh, Adolphe Herseth, James Thompson, Vincent DiMartino and Chrispian Steele Perkins. |
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Featured Artist Allen Vizzutti |
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at home in a multitude of musical idioms, Allen Vizzutti has visited 35
countries and every state in the union to perform with a rainbow of artists
and ensembles, including Chick Corea, Doc Severinsen, The NBC Tonight
Show Band, the Airmen of Note, the Army Blues, Chuck Mangione, Woody Herman,
Japan’s NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Budapest Symphony Orchestra,
the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Kosei Wind Orchestra. Vizzutti
is professor of trumpet at the University of Washington School of Music.
As Artist in Residence, he has taught at the Eastman School of Music,
the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas State University, West
Texas State University, the Skidmore Jazz Institute, and the Trompeten
Akademie of Bremen, Germany. His long-standing commitment to education
and the value of music in everyday life is reflected in extensive guest
appearances at universities throughout North America, Europe, Japan, and
Australia.
Allen
Vizzutti
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Warm-Up Clinician Gary Malvern |
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Gary Malvern has traveled
throughout the world as a soloist and section member, performing with
such ensembles as the National Repertory Orchestra (principal trumpet)
and the American Wind Symphony. Whether traveling to Australia for an
artist-in-residence program or performing for the Spoleto Festival or
the International Trumpet Guild Conference, Dr. Malvern performs with
a high level of skill and musicality. These experiences have enabled him
to offer his students a larger musical perspective, and to empower them
to do their best work.
Gary Malvern |
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Ensemble Director Mark Clodfelter |
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Mark
is Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky.
Prior to this appointment he was Instructor of Trumpet and Director of
the Jazz Band as a member of the faculty at Mars Hill College.As a soloist,
Mark has appeared throughout the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland,
Italy, Ireland, Russia and Greece with orchestras, organists, wind ensembles,
brass ensembles, and jazz bands. He has recorded extensively in styles
ranging from classical to rock including the 2004 Grammy Nominated “Self
Contained” with the UK Jazz Ensemble. He has appeared with such headliners
as The O' Jays, Gladys Knight, Mannheim Steam Roller, the Moody Blues,
Doc Severinson, Bob Mintzer, Lou Rawls, and Ray Charles.
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Ensemble Director Judith Saxton |
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Judith
Saxton is the Artist/Teacher of Trumpet and Brass Chair at the North Carolina
School of the Arts She enjoys an international career as a versatile and
sought-after performer, chamber musician and Conn-Selmer clinician throughout
Asia, the Soviet Union, Europe, South America and the U.S. Currently,
she is principal with Key West and various symphonies on the eastern seaboard.
In the summers she is on faculty with Eastern Music Festival and principal
with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival. Most recently, she was Associate
Professor at Wichita State University and principal with the Wichita Symphony
and the Wichita Brass Quintet. She has a Bachelor of Music Education from
Mansfield University, PA and Master of Music from Northwestern University.
Her performing career includes performances in the Soviet Union and Japan,
three years as principal with the Hong Kong Philharmonic and ten years
freelancing and teaching in Chicago.
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Piano Accompanist Lillian Pearson |
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Dr.
Lillian Buss Pearson has appeared throughout the continental United States
as a solist and chamber player. Dr. Pearson is currently head of the keyboard
area at Western Carolina University, where she teaches piano, harpsichord,
accompanying, and piano pedagogy. During the past five summers she has
performed as a soloist and chamber musician with the Breckenridge Music
Institute in Breckenridge, Colorado. Additionally, she has performed with
the Brandenburg Ensemble of Jacksonville, the National Chamber Players,
the Asheville Symphony and has appeared as a soloist with the Jacksonville
Symphony in Jacksonville, Florida. Pearson holds the Doctor of Music degree
in piano performance from Florida State University, where she studed with
Edward Kilenyi. Her interest in the authentic performance of early music
has led her to study both the fortepiano and the harpsichord, on which
she has had masterclasses with Malcolm Bilson, Gustave Leonhardt, Kenneth
Gilbert, and Igor Kipnis.
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Jazz Trio Pavel Wlosok |
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Czech
pianist, composer, arranger, and educator Pavel Wlosok (*1973) started
to play the piano when he was five years old. He received his classical
education in piano performance and composition at the Conservatory of
Music in Ostrava (1987 - 1993) in the classes of Mr. Zdenek Pecek and
Mr. Igor Katajev, and in the class of Prof. Arnost Parsch at the Janacek
Academy of Music (JAMU) in BRNO (1993 - 1995). He obtained his bachelor
and master degrees in jazz studies at the University of North Texas in
Denton, USA (1995 - 2000), where he studied composition with Prof. Cindy
McTee, jazz piano with Prof. Dan Haerle, and classical piano with Prof.
Adam Wodnicki. Pavel Wlosok is a 2000 IAJE (International Association
of Jazz Educators) Gil Evans Fellowship recipient in the field of composition
and arrangin
Pavel Wlosok |
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Jazz Trio Eliot Wadopian |
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Having
begun his studies at the Berklee College of Music, Multiple Grammy Award
winning bassist Eliot Wadopian has been a professional musician for more
than thirty years. He has performed extensively throughout the United
States, Europe and Asia with many professional ensembles, among them the
Howard Hanger Jazz Fantasy and the Paul Winter Consort. Mr. Wadopian has
been continually teaching double bass and bass guitar privately and at
the University of North Carolina - Asheville as adjunct faculty member
from 1980-1998, currently on the faculty of Western Carolina University.
He is also a regular performer with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra since
1980 (Assistant Principal Bass from 1988-2000) and the Brevard Chamber
Orchestra as Principal Bassist from 1985-2000 as well as section bassist
in the Greenville Symphony Orchestra since 1985 and a frequent addition
to many other orchestras in the mid-Atlantic region.
Eliot Wadopian |
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Jazz Trio Byron Hedgepeth |
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Byron
is composer in residence and on the advisory board of the Jazz Composer's
Forum in Asheville. He has performed and recorded with flutist Kate Steinbeck;
pianists Mark Levine, Bill Gerhardt, and Jack Coker; singer songwriters
Judy Collins, David Wilcox, and Fran McKendree; and percussionist Glen
Velez. He is principal timpanist with the Asheville Symphony Orchestra
and has been featured as a concert soloist. Byron now teaches privately
at his home studio in Black Mountain and at the University of North Carolina
at Asheville, where he is Director of Percussion Studies.
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