I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Music at the Brandon University School of Music in Canada. I am honored to succeed Alan Ehnes who for over 30 years taught an excellent studio of trumpet players at Brandon. I am looking forward to joining the distinguished faculty at Brandon! [Brandon School of Music]

Composer Joan Panetti (Professor of Music at Yale University) has agreed to start working on a new trio (trumpet, violin and piano) for me. Not certain of the completion date, but I hope to premier it in the fall of 2010!

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I will be coaching trumpet ensembles and performing a recital at the Oberlin Trumpet Workshop. Led every year by world-reknown pedagogue Roy Poper and Rotterdam Philharmonic member Arto Hoornweg, this two week institute focuses on obtaining our musical goals by overcoming fundamental issues on the trumpet. [More information]

Eric Miyashiro was the HPAC Orchestra's very special guest for this seasons Pops performances. Eric is an incredible trumpet player and fantastic guy. It was a pleasure to play in his backup orchestra, and even more exciting to join him up front for a duet. [More information]

I'll be collaborating with pianist Makiko Fujimoto for a recital at Hirota Shrine in Nishinomiya (Japan) on Sunday April 18th at 2pm. Works to include Enescu: Legend, Turrin: Two Portraits and Glazunov: Albumblatt

The HPAC orchestra gave three performances of Ravel's Piano Concerto in G and his orchestration on Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition under the leadership of Maestro Rosen Milanov. [More information]

I was invited to by the mayor of Bagiou City to perform on two recitals for the annual Panagbenga Festival in the Philippines (February 2010). [More information]

Virtuoso trumpet player Rubén Simeó joined the HPAC orchestra for a concert of showpieces including the Hummel Trumpet Concerto, Virgen de la Macarena, Flight of the Bumblebee, Carnival of Venice and more. As always, Rubén was absolutely astounding. [More information]