Repertoire Kevin McKee: Alpenpass and Riverrun (2023)Cait Nishimura: she danced in the rain (2018/25)Lauren Bernofsky: Two Latin Dances (2015/21)Anthony Plog: Sonata (2003/10)Horovitz: Music Hall Suite (1964)About the ArtistsJason Bergman is professor of music in trumpet at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. A highly accomplished performer, he has appeared across the United States, South America, Europe, and China, earning recognition for his artistry and versatility. An esteemed American trumpeter and educator, Bergman began his orchestral career in 2008 as associate principal trumpet of the Santiago Philharmonic in Chile and has since held principal trumpet positions with the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and Mobile Opera. He has also performed with the Utah, Milwaukee, and Fort Worth symphonies, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Dallas Opera, and Dallas Winds. His collaborations include performances with the Canadian Brass and Rhythm & Brass as well as an appearance at Carnegie Hall. He was also a fellow at the Music Academy of the West. A sought-after soloist and clinician, Bergman has presented recitals and master classes at institutions worldwide and has performed and lectured at leading conferences. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Royal Belgian Air Force Band, Mahidol Brass Band, and the Beijing Central Conservatory of Music Wind Ensemble, among others. A committed educator, he has taught at a host of U.S. and international music festivals. Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School, he held faculty positions at the University of North Texas and the University of Southern Mississippi, where he received both the Class of '49 Young Scholar Award and the Nina Bell Suggs Endowed Professorship. An active leader in the trumpet community, Bergman served as president of the International Trumpet Guild (2021-23). He is a frequent adjudicator for the National Trumpet Competition, hosting its 2018 edition. Bergman's scholarly contributions include authorship for the Grove Dictionary of American Music and editorial work for the International Trumpet Guild Journal. As a recording artist, he has released three critically acclaimed solo albums and a chamber music album with Brassworks on the MSR label. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist and performs exclusively on Yamaha trumpets.Kimberly Carballo is senior lecturer in music in chamber and collaborative music and director of the Jacobs Virtual Academy at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She joined the Chamber and Collaborative Music Department in 2016, its inaugural year. Carballo is an active international performer and educator, teaching both at the Jacobs School and in her private studio. She is a strong believer in and practitioner of community engagement locally and globally. She founded Reimagining Opera for Kids, a music community engagement and education program based in Bloomington, Indiana, and participates annually as a faculty advisor for the IU portion of the team in the Cheerful Heart Music Education Mission in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. She is a founding member of the Amity Trio, a chamber ensemble that commissions and performs new music in order to amplify underrepresented voices. Carballo is also part of the inaugural and ongoing team for Tunaweza Kimuziki (Through Music All is Possible), a project promoting exchange among music educators, scholars, and performers in Kenya and the United States. Carballo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Indiana University (Individualized Major Program) in Music Theory, and a Master of Music in Music Theory from the Jacobs School of Music. She studied piano with Michel Block and Christopher Harding and chamber music with Leonard Hokanson.Katy Ambrose is assistant professor of music in horn at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She previously was faculty at the University of Iowa and taught at the University of Virginia. During summers, she teaches at the Bay View Music Festival Brass Seminar in Petoskey, Michigan, and served on the faculty for the Interlochen Horn Intensive in June 2026. An avid chamber musician, Ambrose is a member of Mirari Brass Quintet, Lanta Horn Duo, and Conica natural horn quartet, and was a founding member of Seraph Brass. She has been featured at the International Women's Brass Conference, Virginia Arts Festival, Historic Brass Society, and the International Trombone Festival, and is a regular performer and presenter for the International Horn Society (IHS). She was recently elected to the advisory board of the IHS and serves on the editorial committee for its journal, The Horn Call. Ambrose has held orchestral positions with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra, Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra, Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Albany Symphony Orchestra, and Lexington Philharmonic. She has also performed as a substitute with numerous orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic (South Korea), Richmond Symphony, and the Virginia Symphony. She has performed on natural horn with Philharmonie Austin, Madison Bach Musicians, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, and Staunton Music Festival. Outside of orchestral music, her favorite memories are performing with Adele on her 2016 world tour and recording jingles for the Super Bowl. Ambrose was named a University of Iowa "Champion for Student Success" three times, a student-nominated honor, and was a 2025-26 research fellow at the George Washington Presidential Library, where she studied the musical life of Washington's enslaved huntsman, William Lee. She resides in Bloomington with her husband, Carsten, a software engineer and amateur violinist, their nine-year-old twin sons, and their cat, Milo.Jeffrey Curnow is professor of music in trumpet at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He began his career as an undergraduate at Temple University, where he quickly won a coveted position as concerto competition soloist at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. In 1983, Curnow was appointed principal trumpet of the New Haven Symphony and soon after, became a member of the New York Trumpet Ensemble, recording on the MMG/Vox and Newport Classics labels. Four years later, he joined the internationally renowned Empire Brass Quintet. Over the course of his tenure with this ensemble, he recorded 15 compact discs for the Angel EMI and Telarc labels, appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, St. Paul Sunday Morning, Taipei Television, Japan Television, and BBC Television and Radio, and performed with such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and major orchestras in Japan and Switzerland. In 1995, Curnow was appointed principal trumpet of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, recording 14 CDs on the Delos label and appearing as soloist on several occasions, notably for Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. In 2001, he joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as associate principal trumpet, touring worldwide with the ensemble and recording on the Ondine and Deutsche Grammophon labels. Well established as an educator, Curnow has taught at the University of Connecticut, Boston University, Boston University's Tanglewood Institute, the Royal Academy of Music in London, Temple University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Temple University.Matt Hightower is assistant professor of music in tuba and euphonium at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Prior to his appointment at the Jacobs School, he held similar positions at the University of Kentucky (UK) and Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Hightower's professional performance experience covers a wide range of chamber, orchestral, and solo music, spanning three continents and nine countries. He is a prizewinner of international solo competitions and has presented master classes to tuba/euphonium students around the world. His list of solo residencies include Baylor University, Conservatory of Reykjavik (Iceland), University of Louisiana at Monroe, University of Texas, the South Central Regional Tuba/Euphonium Conference, the South East Regional Tuba/Euphonium Conferences, The United States Army Band Tuba/Euphonium Workshop, and the Xi Xiang Music Valley (China), among others. He is tubist with the UK Faculty Brass Quintet and was previously tubist with the Corpus Christi and the Kingsville brass quintets. He is a founding member of the Atlas Tuba Quartet. Some of his credits as a large ensemble performer include appearances with the Bloomington Camerata Orchestra, Columbus (Indiana) Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Jackson Symphony, and David Baker's 21st-Century Bebop Band. Hightower is also an award-winning composer. In 2010, he was named the winner of the KMEA Intercollegiate Composition Contest. Commissioned works by Hightower have received premier performances at the 2012, 2014, and 2016 International Tuba Conferences, the 2017 and 2018 South Central Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, the 2018 South East Regional Tuba Euphonium Conference, the John F. Kennedy Center, and the 2016 Texas Music Educators Conference. Hightower earned a B.M. in Music Education from Murray State University, an M.M. in Tuba Performance from Jacobs, and a D.M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin. His primary instructors were Ray Conklin, Daniel Perantoni, and Charles Villarrubia, with additional instruction in the field of composition from Mike D'Ambrosio, John Fannin, and P.Q. Phan. Hightower is a B&S performing artist.David Murray is professor of music in trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He previously was a member of the National Symphony Orchestra trombone section in Washington, D.C., hired by Christoph Eschenbach in 2014. He has also performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, San Antonio, San Diego, and Saint Louis symphonies, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and the Washington National Opera Orchestra, among others. Internationally, Murray has performed as guest principal trombone with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, Germany, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has also been a member of the Festival Orchestra at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music as well as the Schleswig-Holstein, Spoleto USA, and Chautauqua festivals. Murray served on the faculty of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University from 2017 to 2026. He has also given master classes, taught, and coached at the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, New England Conservatory of Music, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, University of Miami, Stetson University, Michigan State University, George Mason University, Merit School of Music Chicago, Atlanta Symphony Talent Development Program, NSO Summer Music Institute, and the Curtis Institute Summerfest, among others. Murray began his musical studies on the piano at age five, adding trombone at age nine. He later continued training at the Peabody Preparatory on both instruments. He earned a Bachelor of Music (High Distinction and Performer Certificate) from the Eastman School of Music and a Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music.

Enjoy this performance from almost anywhere in the world viaLIVE@jacobs!About the ArtistsKaty Ambrose is assistant professor of music in horn at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She previously was faculty at the University of Iowa and taught at the University of Virginia. During summers, she teaches at the Bay View Music Festival Brass Seminar in Petoskey, Michigan, and served on the faculty for the Interlochen Horn Intensive in June 2026. An avid chamber musician, Ambrose is a member of Mirari Brass Quintet, Lanta Horn Duo, and Conica natural horn quartet, and was a founding member of Seraph Brass. She has been featured at the International Women's Brass Conference, Virginia Arts Festival, Historic Brass Society, and the International Trombone Festival, and is a regular performer and presenter for the International Horn Society (IHS). She was recently elected to the advisory board of the IHS and serves on the editorial committee for its journal, The Horn Call. Ambrose has held orchestral positions with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra, Charlottesville Symphony Orchestra, Hawaiʻi Symphony Orchestra, Northeast Pennsylvania Philharmonic, Albany Symphony Orchestra, and Lexington Philharmonic. She has also performed as a substitute with numerous orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, Boston Pops, Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, Daejeon Philharmonic (South Korea), Richmond Symphony, and the Virginia Symphony. She has performed on natural horn with Philharmonie Austin, Madison Bach Musicians, Seattle Baroque Orchestra, Washington Bach Consort, and Staunton Music Festival. Outside of orchestral music, her favorite memories are performing with Adele on her 2016 world tour and recording jingles for the Super Bowl. Ambrose was named a University of Iowa "Champion for Student Success" three times, a student-nominated honor, and was a 2025-26 research fellow at the George Washington Presidential Library, where she studied the musical life of Washington's enslaved huntsman, William Lee. She resides in Bloomington with her husband, Carsten, a software engineer and amateur violinist, their nine-year-old twin sons, and their cat, Milo.David Murray is professor of music in trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He previously was a member of the National Symphony Orchestra trombone section in Washington, D.C., hired by Christoph Eschenbach in 2014. He has also performed with The Philadelphia Orchestra, the Baltimore, Cincinnati, Jacksonville, San Antonio, San Diego, and Saint Louis symphonies, the Louisiana Philharmonic, and the Washington National Opera Orchestra, among others. Internationally, Murray has performed as guest principal trombone with the WDR Symphony Orchestra in Cologne, Germany, and the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. He has also been a member of the Festival Orchestra at the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music as well as the Schleswig-Holstein, Spoleto USA, and Chautauqua festivals. Murray served on the faculty of the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University from 2017 to 2026. He has also given master classes, taught, and coached at the Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, New England Conservatory of Music, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, University of Miami, Stetson University, Michigan State University, George Mason University, Merit School of Music Chicago, Atlanta Symphony Talent Development Program, NSO Summer Music Institute, and the Curtis Institute Summerfest, among others. Murray began his musical studies on the piano at age five, adding trombone at age nine. He later continued training at the Peabody Preparatory on both instruments. He earned a Bachelor of Music (High Distinction and Performer Certificate) from the Eastman School of Music and a Diploma from the Curtis Institute of Music. Meeting URL:

About the Director A winner of the S&R Foundation Washington Award and Astral Artists National Auditions, trombonist Brittany Lasch is associate professor of music in trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has taught since 2023. Lasch has appeared as a soloist throughout the world with ensembles ranging from the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" to the Queens Symphony and the Sante Fe (Argentina) Municipal Band. With playing described as "masterful" (Syracuse Post-Standard), American Record Guide recently hailed Lasch as an "excellent soloist" across a diverse range of repertoire. Lasch has been a featured guest artist at numerous festivals, including the International Trombone Festival, the International Women's Brass Conference, and the American Trombone Workshop. For six seasons, Lasch was the principal trombone of the Detroit Opera Orchestra at the Detroit Opera House. She has performed with orchestras nationwide, such as the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and the Nashville Symphony. An active presence in the global trombone community, Lasch has recently performed at Argentina's Trombonanza and Portugal's Gravíssimo Festival. An advocate for new music, Lasch has commissioned and performed several new pieces for the trombone, including acclaimed composer Reena Esmail's major Sonata for Trombone and Piano, which is featured on her debut album, Dark Horse (available on all streaming platforms). Lasch has previously served as faculty at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She has also been a featured teacher and performer at summer festivals, including the Sewanee Music Festival and the DC Trombone Workshop, and she has presented master classes at universities across the country and internationally.

PerformersMark Kaplan, violin Jaekeun Song, pianowithPei-San Chiu, fluteJeffrey Curnow, trumpetDavid Dzubay, conductorBrittany Lasch, tromboneAndrea Levine, clarinetKathleen McLean, bassoonDenise Tryon, hornJessica Warren, oboeAdditional performers to be announcedRepertoire Schoenberg: Phantasy, Op. 47 (1949)Webern: Four Pieces, Op. 7 (1910/14)Berg: Kammerkonzert for piano, violin, and 13 winds (1925)About the Artists A soloist of international distinction, violinist Mark Kaplan has performed with nearly every American, European, and Australian orchestra, and with many of the world's great conductors, including Ormandy, Rattle, Maazel, Masur, Dutoit, Salonen, Semkov, Skrowaczewski, and Tennstedt. He has made highly acclaimed concerto and recital appearances in all the musical centers of America and Europe, as well as in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, Hong Kong, China and Singapore. Kaplan is also devoted to chamber music, appearing with pianist Yael Weiss and cellist Peter Stumpf as the Weiss-Kaplan-Stumpf Trio, with recordings and concert tours world-wide. Prior to that he performed and recorded extensively for two decades in the Golub-Kaplan-Carr Trio with cellist Colin Carr and the late pianist David Golub. Especially known for his interpretations of twentieth- and twenty-first-century works and the great German classics, his extensive discography of over 45 commercial CDs includes concertos, solo, and chamber works from Paganini, Bartók, Berg, Sarasate, and Nono to Schubert, Brahms, and Schumann, as well as two complete recordings of Bach's solo violin works. Since 2005, he has been professor of music in violin at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, following a decade as professor at UCLA. Kaplan is a graduate of The Juilliard School, where he studied with Dorothy DeLay.Pei-San Chiu is adjunct associate professor of music in flute at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. An internationally acclaimed Taiwanese flutist and educator, she debuted at Carnegie Hall in 2012 as first-prize winner of the Alexander & Buono International Flute Competition and has performed across the United States, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore in solo, chamber, and orchestral settings. From 2013 to 2016, Chiu served as principal flute of the Lexington Philharmonic, praised by the Lexington Herald-Leader for her "character and vitality," and has performed as guest principal with the National Symphony Orchestra in Taiwan, the Guangzhou Symphony, and the Shenzhen Symphony. A passionate advocate for contemporary music, she has commissioned and premiered works by Bin Li, Tsung-Jen Hsieh, Mei-Chun Chen, Zhou Tian, and Yu-Chun Hu. Her solo album, Air, featuring works by female composers, was nominated for Best Art Music Album at the 2025 Golden Melody Awards in Taiwan. She also performs with the Formosa Trio, Aureus Duo, and Trio 2:1, releasing albums including First Impression, Anniversary, and The Sound of Flowers. Chiu has also been associate professor of flute at Tunghai University since 2016. She earned Master of Music and Doctor of Music degrees from the Jacobs School and received the 2020 Teaching Excellence Award at Tunghai University. She continues to inspire audiences and students alike through her innovative artistry and dedication to advancing the flute repertoire and pedagogy.Jeffrey Curnow is professor of music in trumpet at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. He began his career as an undergraduate at Temple University, where he quickly won a coveted position as concerto competition soloist at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. In 1983, Curnow was appointed principal trumpet of the New Haven Symphony and soon after, became a member of the New York Trumpet Ensemble, recording on the MMG/Vox and Newport Classics labels. Four years later, he joined the internationally renowned Empire Brass Quintet. Over the course of his tenure with this ensemble, he recorded 15 compact discs for the Angel EMI and Telarc labels, appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, St. Paul Sunday Morning, Taipei Television, Japan Television, and BBC Television and Radio, and performed with such ensembles as the Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and major orchestras in Japan and Switzerland. In 1995, Curnow was appointed principal trumpet of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, recording 14 CDs on the Delos label and appearing as soloist on several occasions, notably for Lowell Liebermann's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2. In 2001, he joined the Philadelphia Orchestra as associate principal trumpet, touring worldwide with the ensemble and recording on the Ondine and Deutsche Grammophon labels. Well established as an educator, Curnow has taught at the University of Connecticut, Boston University, Boston University's Tanglewood Institute, the Royal Academy of Music in London, Temple University, and the Curtis Institute of Music. He earned a Bachelor of Music from Temple University.David Dzubay's compositions have been performed in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Asia by the symphony orchestras of Aspen, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Guangxi, Guiyang, Honolulu, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, Minnesota, Oregon, Oakland, St. Louis and Vancouver; the American Composers Orchestra, National Symphonies of Ireland and Mexico, New World Symphony, National Repertory Orchestra, and New York Youth Symphony; and ensembles including the Grossman Ensemble, Le Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, Onix, Manhattan and St. Louis Brass Quintets, Voices of Change, the Alexander, Orion and Pacifica string quartets, the League/ISCM, Earplay, and the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players. His music has been championed by conductors including James DePreist, George Hanson, Keith Lockhart, David Loebel, Michael Morgan, Eiji Oue, Richard Pittman, Iván del Prado, Mark Russell Smith, Lawrence Leighton Smith, Michael Stern, Carl Topilow, David Wiley, Kirk Trevor, Thomas Wilkins, and David Zinman. Honors include two Fromm Music Foundation commissions; Guggenheim, MacDowell, Yaddo, Copland House, and Djerassi fellowships; the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival Composition Competition, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra Composition Competition, Utah Arts Festival Commission, William Revelli and Walter Beeler Memorial Prizes, Wayne Peterson Prize; and grants from the Aaron Copland Fund for Music for two portrait CDs. Currently professor of music and director of the New Music Ensemble at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington, Dzubay was previously on the faculty of the University of North Texas in Denton. Since 2011, he has taught composition for three weeks each summer at the Brevard Music Center. From 1995 to 1998, he served as composer-consultant to the Minnesota Orchestra and during the 2005-06 season, he was Meet the Composer/American Symphony Orchestra League Music Alive Composer-in-Residence with the Green Bay Symphony Orchestra. Dzubay has conducted at the Tanglewood, Aspen, and June in Buffalo festivals as well as the National Symphony of Columbia, Grossman Ensemble, League of Composers Orchestra, Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Music from China, and Voices of Change. A winner of the S&R Foundation Washington Award and Astral Artists National Auditions, trombonist Brittany Lasch is associate professor of music in trombone at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has taught since 2023. Lasch has appeared as a soloist throughout the world with ensembles ranging from the U.S. Army Band "Pershing's Own" to the Queens Symphony and the Sante Fe (Argentina) Municipal Band. With playing described as "masterful" (Syracuse Post-Standard), American Record Guide recently hailed Lasch as an "excellent soloist" across a diverse range of repertoire. Lasch has been a featured guest artist at numerous festivals, including the International Trombone Festival, the International Women's Brass Conference, and the American Trombone Workshop. For six seasons, Lasch was the principal trombone of the Detroit Opera Orchestra at the Detroit Opera House. She has performed with orchestras nationwide, such as the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony, St. Louis Symphony, Detroit Symphony, and the Nashville Symphony. An active presence in the global trombone community, Lasch has recently performed at Argentina's Trombonanza and Portugal's Grav��ssimo Festival. An advocate for new music, Lasch has commissioned and performed several new pieces for the trombone, including acclaimed composer Reena Esmail's major Sonata for Trombone and Piano, which is featured on her debut album, Dark Horse (available on all streaming platforms). Lasch has previously served as faculty at the College of Musical Arts at Bowling Green State University and the Boston University Tanglewood Institute. She has also been a featured teacher and performer at summer festivals, including the Sewanee Music Festival and the DC Trombone Workshop, and she has presented master classes at universities across the country and internationally. A native of Queens, New York, Andrea Levine was appointed principal clarinet of the Louisville Orchestra in 2003. She also served as acting principal clarinet of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra for the 2017-18 season. She won the position of interim assistant principal of the Colorado Symphony during the 2011-12 season. She also won the position of interim second clarinet of the Cleveland Orchestra during the 2007-08 season and joined them on two European tours. Prior to joining the Louisville Orchestra, she spent a year as a member of the New World Symphony in Miami, Florida. Before joining New World, she served as interim principal clarinet of the Akron Symphony while completing a Professional Studies Diploma at the Cleveland Institute of Music. She earned an undergraduate degree at the Eastman School of Music. In addition to serving as principal clarinet of the Britt Festival Orchestra, she has held the same position at the Artosphere Festival. She has appeared as guest principal clarinet of the Cincinnati , Baltimore , Detroit , and Saint Louis symphony orchestras. She has also appeared as a soloist with the Louisville Orchestra, Detroit Symphony, Artosphere Festival Orchestra, the New World Symphony, and Eastman Philharmonia. Levine is also an active teacher, having presented master classes at the Eastman School of Music, University of Michigan, University of Florida, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, University of Tennessee, and University of Louisville. She is currently adjunct associate professor of music in clarinet at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Her teachers have included Daniel Gilbert, Kenneth Grant, Franklin Cohen, Yehuda Gilad, Mitchell Estrin, and Ricardo Morales. She loves living in Louisville with her husband, Jack Griffin, and their two cockapoos, Gus and Leo.Kathleen McLean is associate professor of music (bassoon) at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She is one of the most acclaimed orchestral bassoonists in North America. Internationally recognized, McLean was the associate principal bassoon of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra from 1992 to 2009 and is a sought-after chamber and orchestral musician, recitalist, and teacher. She was appointed to the faculty of the University of Toronto in 1989, became a faculty member at the Royal Conservatory of Music and the Glenn Gould Professional School in 2002, and began as a bassoon instructor with the National Youth Orchestra of Canada in 2009. McLean's former orchestral appointments include principal bassoon of the Canadian Opera Company and guest principal bassoon with the London Symphony Orchestra and the National Arts Centre Orchestra. Since 2001, she has toured extensively with the prestigious World Orchestra for Peace under the baton of Valery Gergiev. McLean has participated in many chamber music festivals, including the Evian International Festival, Vancouver Chamber Music Festival, Scotia Festival, and the Ottawa Chamber Music Festival. She performs frequently with New Music Concerts, Amici Ensemble, and is a founding member of the Caliban Quartet, Toronto Wind Quintet, and the Canadian Winds.Denise Tryon is professor of music in horn at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where she has taught since 2023. She previously served as professor of horn at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She joined the famed American Horn Quartet as fourth horn in 2019. She was previously fourth horn of the Philadelphia Orchestra and held positions with the Detroit, Baltimore, Columbus, and New World Symphonies. She also served as horn professor at the Peabody Institute from 2007 to 2019. Tryon attended the Interlochen Arts Academy and earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music (NEC). She received the Presidential Scholarship while in the Artist Diploma Program at NEC with the Taiyo Wind Quintet, which won the Coleman Chamber Competition. An active and accomplished educator, Tryon has taught master classes extensively in the United States, Scandinavia, Europe, Asia, and South America. She has been a featured artist at many International Horn Society Symposiums and Regional Workshops and has been a featured artist at the Nordic Hornfest, Blekinge International Brass Academy, Warsaw Horn Workshops, CORNO Brass Music Workshop, and Domaine Forget. Since 2017, she's been a faculty member at Rafael Mendez Brass Institute in Denver. She is frequently on faculty with Carnegie Hall's National Youth Orchestra. A champion of new music, Tryon commissioned four new pieces for low horn and piano for her 2015 album SO-LOW. The American Prize awarded her with a special judges' citation for Important Commitment to the Music of Our Time. She commissioned six pieces for low horn for her 2020 album Hope Springs Eternal, for which she won the 2022 American Prize in Instrumental Performance. Her 2017 horn duo album A Pair of Aces, featuring Tryon and Karl Pituch, won a silver medal from the Global Music Awards. In 2009, she and Pituch founded the annual horn seminar Audition Mode, which focuses on the skills horn players need to be successful in orchestral auditions.Jessica Warren is adjunct associate professor of music in oboe at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. She performs regularly with leading ensembles including the National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Wintergreen Festival Orchestra, and Berkshire Bach Society. She recently served as guest principal oboe with the United States Air Force Band during its spring 2024 multistate tour. A Jacobs School alumna and two-time fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center, Warren brings significant teaching experience from positions at George Washington University, the Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the New England Conservatory. Warren specializes in oboe reedmaking education and oboe gouging machine training. Her dissertation, "Significant Learning as Reedmaking Pedagogy," evaluated and reimagined collegiate reedmaking curricula. She regularly presents lectures and master classes in the area of mindfulness in reedmaking and practicing. Warren earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Boston University, studying under John Ferrillo. She earned a Performer Diploma and a Master of Music degree under Linda Strommen at Jacobs and a bachelor's degree under Robert Sorton at The Ohio State University.

About the DirectorsWayne Wallace is professor of practice in jazz studies and jazz trombone at the IU Jacobs School of Music. A seven-time Grammy nominee, he is one of the most respected exponents of African American Latin music in the world today. Wallace is known for his use of traditional forms and styles in combination with contemporary music and has earned wide critical acclaim, including placement in both the trombone and producer categories of the DownBeat Critics Poll. An accomplished arranger, educator, and composer with compositions for film and television, he has received grants from the Creative Work Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Lila Wallace Foundation, and the San Francisco Arts Commission. Wallace has performed, recorded, and studied with many acknowledged masters of the Afro-Latin and jazz idioms, such as Aretha Franklin, Bobby Hutcherson, Earth Wind and Fire, Pete Escovedo, Santana, and many more. This experience has provided a solid foundation for Wallace's current explorations of the intersections of a wealth of cultural styles and rhythmic concepts. Born and raised in San Francisco, Wallace was exposed to blues, country and western, R&B, jazz, and Afro-Caribbean music at an early age. The fertile musical environment of the San Francisco Bay Area shaped his career. His studies of Afro-Latin music and jazz include trips to Cuba, New York City, and Puerto Rico. Widely respected as a teacher and historian, Wallace has taught at San José State University, Stanford University, and the Jazzschool in Berkeley. He has conducted lectures, workshops, and clinics in the Americas and Europe since 1983. Head of the critically acclaimed Patois Records, Wallace has created a unique record label with a passionate mission of developing and chronicling the multilingual styles of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Under his direction the label has released 13 recordings to critical acclaim, including recordings by Wallace, Marc and Paul van Wageningen, and vocalists Kat Parra, Alexa Weber-Morales, and Kristina. He is an endorser of Conn-Selmer trombones.Andy Miller is lecturer in music in percussion at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, with an emphasis in Latin jazz and Afro-Latin percussion music. An engaging performer and passionate educator, he navigates the diverse world of percussion with technical and musical precision across a broad range of artistic practices. Fostering a deep interest in the percussion music of the African diaspora, Miller has studied with master percussionists in the United States and internationally. A Fulbright grant recipient, Miller studied Afro-Colombian currulao, cumbia, and bullerengue in Colombia with La Wey Segura, Francis Lara, and Emilsen Pacheco, later returning on a Presser Graduate Music Award to study joropo music with Fernando Torres Ramirez. Miller conducted field research in Brazil with Jorge Alabê for his doctoral project, "The Language of Drumming in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé Ketu." His study of bomba percussion, song, and dance took him to Puerto Rico to study with Beto Torrens, Marién Torres, Rafa Maya, and Hector "Coco" Baréz. He studied Guinean mande drumming with Bolokada Conde and Afro-Cuban folkloric and popular percussion with Michael Spiro. Miller also champions percussion art music by Latin American composers, including a performance of Ricardo Lorenz's Venezuelan maracas concerto Pataruco with the Jacobs School's University Orchestra. Commissions include Maria José by Luis Fernando Sanchez Gooding, Silent Surface by Rafael Llanos, and Monologue IV: Bilingüismo by José Martinez. His commitment to new music has led to residencies with the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival and the Atlantic Music Festival Contemporary Ensemble. His collaborations with choreographers as a composer/performer have premiered in New York City, throughout the Midwest, and internationally. Miller served as music director of the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Dance Department (2017-24), accompanying classes in styles including modern, ballet, West African, and Afro-Latin dance. He previously taught percussion at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music, Olivet Nazarene University, and Bembé Drum and Dance. Miller earned degrees from IU (D.M.), the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (M.M.), and Wright State University (B.M.).

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