Before coming to the Frost School of Music, Professor Morris served as the Principal Trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and Associate Principal Trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Adler in that he modeled much of the repertoire you were working on in lessons. Professor Morris’s teaching style was similar to that of Dr. Adler, I was offered a full tuition scholarship to the Frost School of Music where I served as Craig Morris’s Teaching Assistant, but was also awarded a Mancini Fellowship where I sat as the Principal Classical Trumpet of the Henry Mancini Orchestra. He was the one who eventually encouraged me to apply to the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music to pursue a master in performance with Professor Craig Morris.Īfter training with Dr. Adler pushed me to not accept mediocrity, but to always strive for something greater. It was at this time that I really made leaps and bounds in my performance. His approach to teaching was to model and demonstrate aspects in performance, along with providing me with as many challenges, both technically and musically, to push my playing to its limits. He was a teacher who really opened my eyes to my future potential as a trumpet performer. There, I had the pleasure to study with Dr. John Adler (currently Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of Northern Colorado). She saw something in me that didn’t exist in my peers and she began to push me to take lessons, and provided me with musical recordings that gave me more exposure to what the musical world had to offer.Īfter high school, I pursued my music education degree at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. One of my first teachers that really made an impact on my development as a musician was my high school band director, Dawn Harbin. I participated in as many ensembles as possible and began to really pursue the idea of majoring in music in college. I started to really progress in my performance and development as a player when I joined my high school band program. Music was an environment that I could be a part of practices and events in which I could excel, without having to physically putting strain on my ankle. I wasn’t very involved in sports at that time due to an operation I had when I was younger that resulted in a metal plate and several screws being implanted into my ankle. I started playing trumpet a year later than most of my friends, as they joined our middle school band program in the 6th grade, while I did not begin until the beginning of my 7th grade year. I grew up in a town just outside of Roanoke, Virginia where I began playing trumpet at the age of 12. Where do you come from? That is, we would like to know 1) where you grew up as a trumpeter, 2) who were your most important teachers, and 3) what your professional and pedagogical trajectory has been until today.
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