You’ll be in good hands with professors who combine world-class artistry with a passion for teaching.

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Tim Albright (he/him)

Associate Professor of Music-Trombone
920-832-6842
As trombone professor, I am thrilled to share my love of music through teaching private lessons and studio class, co-directing the trombone ensemble, coaching chamber music and jazz small-group ensembles, and performing with the faculty brass quintet and jazz ensemble.

I have been lucky enough to have played toured and/or recorded with an eclectic mix of artists including the Milwaukee Symphony, Metropolitan Opera, American Brass Quintet, Atlantic Brass Quintet, Orpheus Chamber Ensemble, Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, Dafnis Prieto, Steve Lehman, Miguel Zenon, Jay-Z, Barbara Streisand, Sufjan Stevens, and the National.

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Jose Encarnacion directing the LU Jazz Band

Jose L. Encarnacion (He/Him/His)

Associate Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Studies
920-832-6629
José L. Encarnación leads the jazz improvisation classes, directs the LU Jazz Band, coaches jazz small groups, teaches applied jazz saxophone, coordinates the jazz performance program and Chairs the Jazz & Improvisational Music Department and The Bachelor of Musical Arts Program at the Lawrence University Conservatory of Music.
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Nadje Noordhuis is laughing and holding a silver trumpet

Nadje Noordhuis (she/hers)

Assistant Professor of Music - Trumpet
920-832-6702

Australian-born trumpeter/composer Nadje Noordhuis possesses a deeply-felt clarion tone described as having ‘beyond-category beauty (Dan Bilawsky, All About Jazz). Her evocative compositions meld classical rigor, jazz expression, and world music accents into a signature sound.

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Steve Peplin

Lecturer of Music
920-832-6634
Steve considers himself an eclectic musician, drawing upon many sources and genres with an aversion to musical or stylistic limitations. Steve's teaching philosophy is to train fundamentals (listening, harmonic knowledge, reading, composing / improvising, etc.) and to teach the student to teach them
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Janet Planet

Lecturer of Music
920-832-6634

Described as a “The voice of the new jazz culture with seemingly limitless expression” by Jazziz Magazine, the spirited and vivacious Janet Planet has been self-produced and managed for the majority of h

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