JUDITH SAXTON

Judith Saxton, a native of Pennsylvania, is currently Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Wichita State University. At the University, she performs recitals for their American Music Week and the Contemporary Music Festival. She was the chosen soloist for the 2002 'American Bandmasters Association' WSU concert, and is an active and popular guest soloist with a variety of university ensembles and community music series. She currently performs as Principal Trumpet with the Wichita Symphony with whom she is frequently featured as soloist. She is Principal Trumpet with the Wichita Brass Quintet, Principal and Soloist with the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival (VA), and has played six seasons as Third/Associate Principal with the Eastern Music Festival Orchestra in Greensboro, NC. She also coordinates and coaches the festival's chamber music and teaches lessons and master-classes.
Ms. Saxton received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Mansfield University (PA), where she was elected to the Music Alumni Honor Roll by her teacher, Michael Galloway. Her Master of Music degree is from Northwestern University, where she studied with the world-renowned Vincent Cichowicz. The legendary Adolph Herseth was her coach during her four years with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the training orchestra of the Chicago Symphony. She pursued further studies with the famous pedagogue Arnold Jacobs as well as with William Scarlett and Susan Slaughter.
Ms. Saxton was Principal Trumpet and Soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra from 1990-1993. She has performed with the Chicago Symphony and CSO Brass Quintet, the Grant Park (IL) Symphony, and Concertante di Chicago. Ms. Saxton freelanced in Chicago for 10 years and has held principal positions with the Symphonic Pops Orchestra of Chicago and the South Bend (IN), Illinois, Metropolis (IL), Illinois Chamber, and Kenosha (WI) symphonies. She was also Principal and Soloist with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra for two seasons.
As a chamber musician, Ms. Saxton has performed with the Chicago Chamber Musicians, Sierra Brass Quintet (Japan tours), and as a member of the Monarch and Millar Brass Ensembles and numerous brass quintets. Ms. Saxton has recorded for the Koss, Crystal, Novitas and Proto labels, and her playing has been broadcast on radio and television stations across the U.S., Russia and Asia. She continues to be an active clinician and recitalist across the U.S., and has presented numerous concert/clinics and masterclasses in Hong Kong and Japan. Ms. Saxton taught at Illinois Wesleyan University, Northeastern Illinois University, and the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts prior to her appointment at Wichita State University. Ms. Saxton enjoys traveling, hiking, singing and jazz.

LINDA BROWN

Linda Brown teaches at Mount Royal College in Calgary, Canada, where her students have received local, national, and international awards. Also, she has presented numerous master-classes worldwide from the Eastman School of Music to the Conservatory of Music in Shanghai, China.
As an international prize winning trumpeter, Linda continues to discover new musical horizons beyond her regular work of twenty years with the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra. Her most recent creation is a trumpet drama with piano accompaniment about the Yellow Rose of Texas. Brown shows her versatility by combining dance, narration and acting into this humorous stage presentation through the main actor, the trumpet.
A native of Alberta, Canada, Linda received a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Calgary, and Master of Music degree from Northwestern University, both in Trumpet Performance.

LAURAINE CARPENTER

Lauraine Carpenter is currently Principal Trumpet with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, Professor of Trumpet at the University of Toledo, and Principal Trumpet of two brass quintets.
She received her Bachelor in Music Education from Ithaca College and her Master of Arts degree from New York University. While living in New York, Lauraine performed with a wide variety of musical organizations from the New York City Ballet to a tour with rock performer, Robert Palmer. After moving to San Francisco, she won the Second Trumpet position with the San Jose Symphony, Principal Trumpet with the Oakland East Bay Symphony, and performed regularly with the San Francisco Opera and San Francisco Symphony. Lauraine accepted a one-year position with the San Antonio Symphony as Assistant Principal Trumpet, returned to San Francisco for one year, and then moved to Ohio.
Lauraine received her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Ithaca College, and Master of Arts from New York University.
In her spare time she enjoys cooking, wine tasting, contemporary music and American novels.

MARVIN STAMM

Throughout his distinguished career, Marvin Stamm has been praised for both the art and the craft of trumpet playing. Noted jazz historian, Leonard Feather, stated that Mr. Stamm is an accomplished performer whose technical skill is used as a means to stimulating original ends.
While attending North Texas State University, a school noted for its innovative lab bands, Mr. Stamm was discovered by Stan Kenton. After graduation, he joined Kenton's orchestra as his Jazz Trumpet Soloist, touring with him in 1961-1962, and recording five albums with the orchestra. In 1965-1966, he toured worldwide with Woody Herman.
Settling in New York in late 1966, Stamm quickly established himself as a busy jazz and studio trumpeter. New York was bustling with jazz activity during that period, and Stamm performed at key venues with many of the significant players in the business. He gained considerable recognition for his playing with the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra (1966-72) and the Duke Pearson Big Band (1967-70), as well as performing with Frank Sinatra (1973-74) and the Benny Goodman Sextet (1974-75) among others. Stamm was also a recognized first call studio player (1966-89), and he recorded with Bill Evans, Quincy Jones, Oliver Nelson, Duke Pearson, Thad Jones, Wes Montgomery, Freddie Hubbard, Stanley Turrentine, Patrick Williams, Michel Legrand, Frank Foster, Paul Desmond, George Benson and many more.
Eschewing the lucrative studio scene in the late 80's, Mr. Stamm has focused his attention on his first love, playing jazz. Since that time, he has been a member of John Lewis' American Jazz Orchestra, the Bob Mintzer Band, the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, Louis Bellson's Big Band and/or quintet and, on many occasions, performed with the big band of composer Maria Schneider.
Currently, Mr. Stamm's activities include performing as a soloist, touring with his Jazz quartet or in duo with pianist Bill Mays. He has embarked on a new and successful venture of performing with symphony orchestras throughout the country and abroad. He continues to maintain his ties with George Gruntz' Concert Jazz Band, and, when time permits also travels with other all-star units.
Marvin Stamm's first solo album, Machinations was composed and arranged by jazz legend, John Carisi. After touring for several years with Frank Sinatra, he recorded Stammpede in 1982 that heralded his re-dedication to a solo jazz career.
In 1991, he released Bop Boy, a quintet CD featuring tenor saxophonist Bob Mintzer, drummer Terry Clarke, pianist Phil Markowitz and bassist Lincoln Goines. A follow-up, Mystery Man, was released in 1993, again featuring Mintzer and Clarke, but this time in the company of pianist Bill Charlap, bassist Mike Richmond and saxophonist Bob Malach.
In November 2000, Mr. Stamm released two new CDs on his newly formed Marstam Music label. The first, a duo CD, By Ourselves, documents Mr. Stamm's long-time collaboration with pianist Bill Mays and will present eleven tracks among which are Victor Young's "Beautiful Love," "You And The Night And The Music," Sonny Rollins' "Airegin," and Dizzy's lovely "Con Alma."
The second CD, The Stamm/Soph Project, is a quartet setting created with drummer Ed Soph that features bassist Rufus Reid and pianist Bill Mays; saxophonist Dave Liebman also guests on three tracks. This endeavor contains ten compositions that include Thad Jones' classic, "Three and One," Miles Davis' beautiful masterwork, "Nardis," and Clifford Brown's eternal "Joy Spring."
November 2001 saw the release of Elegance, a quartet CD featuring the remarkable young pianist from Sweden, Stefan Karlsson along with bassist Tom Warrington and drummer Eliot Zigmund.
The critical response to Stamm's work has been highly enthusiastic. Downbeat reported that Stamm has a gorgeous tone on the trumpet and flugelhorn, and he flies through the changes. JazzTimes said that the Memphis native has chops and talent in abundance. He can burn on bebop changes, or mellow out on a ballad, all the time maintaining the lucid consistency that enthusiasm and experience engenders. Jazz Review states, "It is a pleasure listening to the work of Marvin Stamm, anytime! Stamm is a musician's musician, performing flawlessly on his trumpet and flugelhorn."
Consciously acknowledging his debt to the influence and guidance of former teachers and fellow musicians, Marvin Stamm also commits a good deal of his time and energies to helping young music students develop their own voices. His involvement in jazz education takes him to universities and high schools across the U.S. and abroad as a performer, clinician, and mentor, perpetuating the traditions of excitement and innovation that jazz represents.
Marvin Stamm is a Boosey & Hawkes performing artist and plays on the French Besson trumpet and French Besson "Laureate" flugelhorn.

INGRID JENSEN

Selected by Downbeat as one of the "25 most important improvising musicians of the future," and rated in the top three in a number of their critics' polls for "talent deserving wider recognition," Ingrid Jensen has already garnered an impressive reputation.
Raised in Nanaimo, Canada, she left home after receiving a number of scholarships and awards to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Since graduating in 1989, her life has been a whirlwind of musical activities. From her days in the all-female band DIVA, to establishing herself and her music in a wide array of musical genres, Ms. Jensen is definitely making her mark. Her three CDs for the Enja label won her numerous nominations from the Canadian Juno Awards, and a win in 1995 for her first of the three, Vernal Fields.
Her career within New York has taken off in recent years. Performing with the Maria Schneider Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, and most recently with her own group at the Wall to Wall Miles celebration, Ms.Jensen has received rave reviews and a strong reputation in the jazz circle. Some of the many musicians she has played with nationally include Steve Wilson, Jeff 'Tain' Watts, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Marc Copland and Bob Berg, Gary Thomas, Gary Bartz, Bill Stewart, Terri-Lynn Carrington, Geoff Keezer, Billy Hart, George Garzone, Chris Connor, Terrence Blanchard and Clark Terry.
She is currently on the faculty at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, as well as having spent time in Austria as professor of Jazz Trumpet at the Bruckner Conservatory of Music. Ms. Jensen continues to travel and perform extensively, conducting clinics and workshops as well as playing with her own groups and appearing as a guest with numerous ensembles from around the world.

SUSAN SLAUGHTER

Susan Slaughter, Principal Trumpet of the St. Louis Symphony since 1973. She founded and organized the International Women’s Brass Conference in 1992 with an annual Holiday Brass Concert to raise funds for the IWBC scholarship fund. She also founded Monarch Brass in 1995 and is recognized as having been the first female Principal Trumpet of a major orchestra

 

 

 

 

MARIE SPEZIALE

Marie Speziale, who is acknowledged as the first woman trumpeter in a major symphony orchestra, retired from the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra after having served as its Associate Principal Trumpet for thirty-two years (1964-1996). Formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and Professor of Music at the Indiana University School of Music, Ms. Speziale is now on the faculty at Rice University. Since retiring from the orchestra, she has remained quite active as a performer, teacher and clinician. In 1999, she was the only woman of six Americans invited by the Tokyo International Music Festival to perform in its first Super World Orchestra.