Master of Arts in Bass Trombone Performance with Distinction
The Royal Academy of Musicin London, the United Kingdom
Bachelor of Arts in Bass Trombone Performance
The University of North Texasin Denton, Texas, USA
North Texas Wind Symphony
Portals (2016)
This was recorded during my senior year at the University of North Texas. The UNT Wind Symphony is a famous wind band, internationally known for the recordings they put out - often, they become the de facto standard for other bands. Eugene Corporon, the conductor, is just as famous as being the reason the band reached the top. He is militant but energetic, with a craving for perfection.
Cardoso Missa Secundi Toni and Other Works (2018)
Girton College, found nestled in the countryside on the north-west side of Cambridge, England, is a beautiful fantasy of a college. The choir there is prominent for their regular recordings, directed by a passionate director, Gareth Wilson. I was invited with my sackbut quartet, along with two cornetto players (one being the highly-esteemed Jeremy West) to tour with this choir across Portugal, playing the Renaissance music of Manuel Cardoso. We played his music in Lisbon, Estoril, Porto, and the very church that he most likely composed all of this music, Évora Cathedral. We then flew up to the idyllic Durham, England, to record this CD of excellent Renaissance music, played in a classic historic brass sextet fashion - me on bass sackbut, along with three other tenor sackbuts and two cornettos.
Chautauqua Music School Festival Orchestra
Two Music: It Don't Mean a Thing, if it... (2014)
UNT is known around the world for their jazz lab bands. They have over a dozen, ranging from the cutting-edge jazz of the One O'Clock Lab Band, to the specialized music of the Latin Jazz Ensemble. The Two O'Clock was usually known for playing more of the classics. It was directed by Jay Saunders, who has a history of playing lead trumpet for the greats, including the Stan Kenton Orchestra. There actually was an enormous collection of music donated to UNT by Stan Kenton himself, leading to the reason why they organize their jazz bands in the unusually heavy orchestration of 5 trumpets, 5 trombones, and 5 saxes. I played 4th trombone on this album.
Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
Debussy La Mer, Mvt. IIIRoyal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Manuel López-Gómez, conductor
Elgar Symphony No. 2, Op. 63, Mvt. IIRoyal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner, conductor
Tchaikovsky Francesca Da Rimini, Op. 32Royal Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra
Semyon Bychkov, conductor
University of North Texas Baroque Orchestra & Collegium Singers
Richard Sparks, conductor
This was one of the first concerts I played bass sackbut in. I was lucky enough to spend it with two of the most famous early-music historians of this age: Bruce Dickey (cornetto) and Charles Toet (sackbut), who were invited to UNT to play and teach masterclasses with us. These names are literally synonymous with the new wave of historical performance that has been sweeping the world since around the 60s. You could imagine the influence of this concert upon me - and this was actually one of the biggest reasons I decided to study overseas, to get closer to the best performers and closer to the true ancestry and home of the music of the renaissance period.
Network
UNT Wind Symphony
Eugene Migliaro Corporon, conductor
Vesperae solennes de Dominica, K. 321
University of North Texas Baroque Orchestra & Collegium Singers
Richard Sparks, conductor
Requiem ex F con terza minore
University of North Texas Baroque Orchestra & Collegium Singers
Richard Sparks, conductor
The Q-Tips QuartetQuinn Parker, Laura Agut,
Benny Vernon, Freddy Ouellette
The Q-Tips was a quartet founded during my years at the Royal Academy. We had the opportunity to record a couple of songs in a short professional session, so we picked some of our favorites.
This quartet is the same as the one heard on the Cardoso album above - just on modern trombones instead of sackbuts.
North Texas Wind Symphony
Pathways (2016)
This CD was recorded at the same time as "Portals" above.