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Fourth Annual Dallas Trumpet Workshop 2018
July 16‐19

The Music Department will host a four-day trumpet workshop for advanced middle school, high school, and early college students. Classes will include warm up sessions, solo and ensemble preparation, and clinics/performances from professional trumpet players from regional and national ensembles and universities.

Registration Cost

Early Bird: $300 before June 1
$350 after June 1

Guest Artists


Dr. Rick Bogard Dallas Opera Orchestra University of Texas at Arlington	Dr. Jason Dovel Assistant Professor University of Kentucky	Ingrid Jensen New York-based International Jazz Artist

Co‐Hosts


Dr. Oscar Passley Professor of Music Eastfield College	Dr. Brian Walker Assistant Professor of Trumpet Tarleton University

For more information, contact Brian Walker at 850-459-9095.

Biographies

Rick Bogard has been heralded by the American Record Guide for his “sweet tone quality…reliable in all

registers,” and by the Journal of the International Trumpet Guild, which stated “Bogard…brilliantly

performs…displays an enviable purity of sound and an exceptionally consistent sense of lyricism…”

Bogard has been on the faculty of the University of Texas at Arlington since 1990, where he has served

as Professor of Trumpet and Chair of the Music Department. He has performed as Second Trumpet with

the Dallas Opera Orchestra since 1989, and performed as Principal Trumpet during the 1993-94 seasons.

He has been a soloist with the UTA Symphony, Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and with the Texas Wind

Symphony. He was a founding member of the Dallas Wind Symphony.

Bogard has performed and held master classes throughout the United States and in Russia, Canada,

Mexico, Italy, France, Germany, and Sweden. He has toured with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra,

and has recorded Mahler, Shostakovich, and Respighi with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra.

His own CD “Trumpet Songs” (Centaur Records) was funded by a Research Enhancement Grant from the

University of Texas at Arlington.

His book “Daily Warmups and Skills Studies for Trumpet is published by Gore Publishing Company, and

he is a trumpet artist for the Vincent Bach division of the Conn-Selmer Corporation.

Bogard holds the D.M.A. in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas, as well as degrees

from Baylor University and the University of Central Arkansas.

He resides in Dallas with wife Kathy and rescue Shih Tzu Katie.

Jason Dovel joined the University of Kentucky School of Music faculty in 2013, where he

teaches trumpet lessons, directs trumpet ensembles, and performs in the UK Faculty Brass

Quintet. He serves as faculty sponsor of UK Education Abroad programs in Greece in Australia

and is founding director of the UK Summer Trumpet Institute, UK Baroque Trumpet

Symposium, as well as the Certificate in Baroque Trumpet. Prior to his appointment at UK, he

taught at the University of North Texas, North Central Texas College, and Northeastern State

University.

As a soloist and clinician, he has appeared at more than 60 universities, festivals, and

conferences in the United States and abroad. He has recorded three solo CDs; his debut album,

Lost Trumpet Treasures, was released in 2014 as a collaboration with pianist Edward Neeman.

The International Trumpet Guild Journal reviewer wrote, "On every track, Dovel's and

Neeman's nuanced, stylistic interpretations and technical mastery are on full display." The

American Record Guide described the disc as "spectacular" and praised Dovel's "full tone and

terrific technical skills." The Brass Herald lauded the disc as "well-conceived and well-

performed." His second solo CD, Ascent: New Music for Trumpet, was released in 2016 and

features eight new works for trumpet, four of which are his original compositions. His third

disc, Baroque Music for Trumpet and Organ, features the valveless Baroque trumpet.

As an orchestral trumpeter, he is principal trumpet of the Lexington Chamber Orchestra and

spends summers playing in the Charlottesville Opera Orchestra in Virginia. He has also

performed with the Dallas Opera Orchestra, Orchestra of New Spain, Tulsa Symphony

Orchestra, Tulsa Ballet, Tulsa Opera, Toledo Opera, Arkansas Philharmonic, Knoxville

Symphony, Lexington Philharmonic, Amici New York Orchestra, Symphony of Northwest

Arkansas, and many other groups.

As a chamber music entrepreneur, he is a founding member of Quintasonic Brass, a touring

brass quintet, as well as Clarino Collective, a professional trumpet ensemble.

As an author, he has published journal articles in the Music Educators Journal, International

Trumpet Guild Journal, The Instrumentalist, and China’s Journal of the Art College of Inner

Mongolia University. He is also editor of The Big Book of Sight-Reading Duets for Trumpet,

published by Mountain Peak Music.

As a composer and arranger, his works have been performed throughout the world; at the

International Trumpet Guild Conference, National Trumpet Competition, Midwest Trumpet

Festival, Australasian Trumpet Academy, Eastman Summer Trumpet Retreat, Kentucky Music

Educators Association Conference, Oklahoma Music Educators Association Conference, and at

the Exploring Brass in Greece International Festival. His works are published through

Prestissimo Press, Hickman Music Editions, Mountain Peak Music, and the Baroque Trumpet

Shop.

Under his leadership, the UK trumpet studio has enjoyed outstanding student placement into

university, orchestral, and public school positions, graduate schools, and summer festivals.

Recently, the UK trumpet ensemble has twice won Second Prize at the National Trumpet

Competition (2016 and 2014) and in 2015 UK’s “Shades of Blue” Trumpet Ensemble recorded

the compact disc, Competition Pieces for Trumpet Ensemble.

Ingrid Jensen, born in Vancouver and raised in Nanaimo, British Columbia, has been hailed as one of the

most gifted trumpeters of her generation. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1989, she

went on to record three highly acclaimed CDs for the ENJA record label, soon becoming one of the most

in-demand trumpet players on the global jazz scene.

After a teaching stint in Europe in her early twenties – as the youngest professor in the history of the

Bruckner Conservatory in Linz, Austria - Ingrid settled in New York City in the mid-1990s where she

joined the innovative jazz orchestras of Maria Schneider (1994-2012) and Darcy James Argue. More

recently, Ingrid has been performing with the Grammy-winning Terri-Lyne Carrington and her Mosaic

Project. Ingrid is a featured soloist on the Christine Jensen Jazz Orchestra’s Juno-award-winning album,

Treelines (2011), and its successor, Habitat (2013). She has performed with a multi-generational cast of

jazz legends ranging from Clark Terry to Esperanza Spalding; Ingrid has also performed alongside British

R&B artist Corrine Bailey Rae on Saturday Night Live, and recorded with Canadian pop icon Sarah

McLachlan. In addition to her busy sideman and featured soloist schedule, Jensen leads her own quintet,

quartet and organ trio. Her own bands have garnered glowing reviews and a loyal fan base in Australia,

South Africa, almost every country in Europe, across Canada, the US, South America (including Brazil,

Peru and Chile), Japan and Mexico.

Jensen is also a dedicated jazz educator, having taught trumpet at the University of Michigan and

Peabody Conservatory, performing and lecturing as a guest artist with the Thelonious Monk Institute

High School group featuring Herbie Hancock, and performing and teaching at the Centrum Jazz

Workshop, The Dave Brubeck Institute, the Banff Centre Workshop in Jazz & Creative Music and the

Stanford Jazz Camp and the Geri Allen Jazz Camp for young women. She is currently on faculty at both

Purchase College and at the New School in New York.

Since her victory at the Carmine Caruso Trumpet Competition in 1995, Jensen has since sat on the

judges’ panel twice for said competition.

She is regularly invited to trumpet festivals around the world, including a prestigious invitation in 2011

to work with classical trumpet maestro Håkan Hardenberger and the Swedish Wind Orchestra. Ingrid

plays a custom Monette trumpet, built personally by the master builder Dave Monette.

One of Ingrid’s most frequent and closest collaborators is her sister, the saxophonist and composer

Christine Jensen. In addition to recent performances with the Christine’s Jazz Orchestra of their

revamped version of Porgy and Bess, the sisters released an exciting small group recording entitled,

Infinitude, on the Whirlwind label featuring the brilliant guitarist Ben Monder.

Other projects Ingrid has been invited to lend her voice to include: David’s Angels (Sweden), Kari Ikonen

(Finland), Marianne Trudel (Montreal), Ellen Rowe (USA), Adam Birnbaum (USA), Sharel Cassity (USA),

Dwight Adams (USA) ,Tobias Meinhart (Germany/US), numerous all-star groups including a recent

European tour with Renee Rosnes, Cecile Mclorin Savant, Allison Miller, Anat Cohen and Melissa Aldana.

Oscar Passley has served on the faculties of the Elan International Music Festival, University of Kentucky

Summer Trumpet Institute, Blast of Brass Summer Festival, Tarrant County College (Northwest campus),

Northlake College, Collin College and co-founder/host of the annual Dallas Trumpet Workshop.

Currently, Passley is the faculty coordinator of the music department at Eastfield College and Lecturer of

Trumpet at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is sought after as an adjudicator and clinician

throughout the state and nation conducting clinics and workshops at schools and festivals including the

Dallas Music Educators Association Jazz Festival, Tarleton State University Jazz Festival, Southwestern

Oklahoma State University Jazz Festival, Baltimore County Public Schools High School All Honors Jazz

Concert, National Trumpet Competition Jazz Semi-Finals and the International Trumpet Guild Jazz

Scholarships Competition. In addition, he has also been a guest artist at numerous colleges and

universities throughout the country including Mountain View College, Richland College, Missouri State

University, Northeastern State University, Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma Baptist

University, Texas Wesleyan University, Texas A&M University at Commerce, University of Dallas, Texas

Christian University and Baylor University.

Equally proficient in both classical and jazz genres, Oscar Passley has performed with groups such as the

Price/Wright Jazz Orchestra, Kitchen Sync Big Band, Rizpah Lowe Jazz Quartet, Alexandria’s Ragtime

Band, Bourbon Street Stompers, Inner City All-Stars Brass Band, Eastfield College Faculty Jazz Combo,

Texas Star Brass Band, Las Colinas Symphony, Garland Symphony, Arlington Symphony, New

Philharmonic Orchestra of Irving, Chamber Orchestra of Denton, Voices of Change, Metropolitan

Classical Ballet Orchestra, and was Co-Principal at the 2008 Missouri Symphony Summer Festival. He

also has been performing with the Dallas Opera Orchestra since the 2005-2006 season.

Oscar Passley has shared the stage with such notable musicians as Andrea Bocelli, Denyce Graves,

Michael Sachs, Scott Hartman, Elizabeth Freimuth, Gladys and "Bubba" Knight, Louis Price (former lead

singer for the Temptations), Heather Headley, "Bebe" Neuwirth, B. J. Thomas, Bowling for Soup, Rebirth

Brass Band, Steve Lippia, Benjamin Wright, Winard Harper, Regina Carter, Bobby Sparks, Keith

Anderson, Brad Leali, Tony Baker, Byron Stripling and Wynton Marsalis.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland Passley graduated from Morgan State University with a B.A. in music

where he studied trumpet with Melvin Miles. He finished master degrees in trumpet performance

(M.M.) and music education (M.M.E.) in 2004-2005, studying jazz trumpet with Mike Steinel and

classical trumpet with John Holt at the University of North Texas. Dr. Passley holds a Doctor of Musical

Arts in trumpet performance at UNT.

Brian Walker is Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Tarleton State University in Stephenville,

Texas. Dr. Walker has taught previously at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, the

University of North Texas and The Florida State University as well as privately in the Dallas/Ft.

Worth Metroplex. His students have been accepted into many undergraduate and graduate music

programs throughout the United States. He currently teaches a full studio of twenty music major

and non-major trumpet players at Tarleton State.

Dr. Walker holds degrees from the University of North Texas (DMA), The Florida State

University (MM) and Southeastern Oklahoma State (BM). His primary teachers include Michael

Miles, Iskander Akhmadullin, Christopher Moore, John Holt, Keith Johnson and Adam Gordon.

As a performer he has appeared with many groups in the DFW region including (but not limited

to) the Dallas Wind Symphony, the Dallas Opera, Plano, Allen, Arlington, Las Colinas, Irving,

Garland, and Dallas Chamber Orchestras. He has also had the opportunity to perform with the

North Texas Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra, and the Grammy Nominated UNT One

O'Clock Lab Band. While at Florida State, Dr. Walker performed with the Tallahassee

Symphony, Pensacola Symphony, and New World Symphony to name a few. As a soloist, Dr.

Walker has given recitals in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Georgia, Florida in the United States

and Mytilene, Greece, Sao Paulo, Brazil and has performed throughout France.

Dr. Walker is active in the International Trumpet Guild as a contributor in the Music Review

section in the ITG Journal. He is also an artist and clinician for the Bach division of the Conn-

Selmer Corporation.