The program in trumpet study at Lawrence University is designed to provide undergraduate trumpeters with a comprehensive education in trumpet performance and pedagogy. Students may select majors in performance, music education, and theory/composition or develop areas of concentration outside established programs through tutorials and student-designed majors. Many students elect to combine majors in the Conservatory of Music or complete two degrees — one in the conservatory and one in the college of liberal arts and sciences. Students may choose an emphasis in classical trumpet performance, jazz trumpet performance, or both.
Students are selected from auditions held on campus and at audition sites throughout the United States. Each trumpet student at Lawrence receives weekly private lessons with a faculty member and participates in a regularly meeting performance class. Trumpet students at the conservatory may develop their own teaching studios through the Lawrence Academy of Music. All courses, lessons, and coaching sessions at Lawrence University are taught by members of the faculty.
The Studio
Faculty
- John Daniel, trumpet
Associate Professor of Music
John Daniel is the Professor of Trumpet at Lawrence University. He received the Specialist in Music degree from the University of Michigan, Master of Arts in Music from the University of Iowa, and Bachelor of Music from Ball State University. His primary teachers were David Greenhoe, Richard Giangiulio, and Armando Ghitalla. Mr. Daniel previously held tenured positions at Penn State University and Abilene Christian University. While attending the University of Michigan on full scholarship he won the graduate concerto award and was principal trumpet of orchestras in Ann Arbor and Saginaw, Michigan. Mr. Daniel served as principal trumpet with the San Angelo Symphony Orchestra and Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra for nine years and has performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Pennsylvania Ballet Orchestra, Palm Beach Opera, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, and Music at Penn's Woods Orchestra, as well as “subbing” for the Broadway revivals of "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Gypsy." He performs as co-principal trumpet in the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra and first trumpet in Lawrence Brass. He has played recitals in Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, throughout South Korea, and throughout the United States. As a jazz musician he performs with the Lawrence University faculty jazz group and has appeared with Lionel Hampton, Bill Watrous, Wycliff Gordon, Marvin Stamm, Vinnie DiMartino, Phil Woods, Ernie Watts, The Nelson Riddle Orchestra and many others. He conducts and solos annually for the West Texas Rehabilitation Center Telethon Orchestra. Mr. Daniel released “A Calling” in 2004, a jazz CD featuring his own compositions and is featured on a 2006 Mark Masters release, “Karel Husa Trumpet Concertos.” The Husa CD was on the entry list to be nominated for a Grammy Award in the category “best solo with orchestra” and “best classical recording.” He has been a member of North America’s finest brass band, The Brass Band of Battle Creek, since 1993 and plays Schilke trumpets, flugelhorn and cornets exclusively. In April of 2011, Mr. Daniel self published a trumpet method, “Special Studies for Trumpet.” The book represents a lifetime of practicing and teaching the trumpet. It is used by members of major symphony orchestras, leading freelancers in New York and Los Angeles, soloists and college trumpet teachers at major institutions including the Juilliard School. It is available at: johndanieltrumpet.com
Contact by e-mail: john.daniel@lawrence.edu
