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Spencer Brand, trumpet
Dr. Spencer Brand serves as Artist/Assistant Professor of Trumpet at McNeese State University, where he teaches applied trumpet, chamber music, and Music History. Brand has performed with the Lake Charles Symphony Orchestra, Rapides Symphony Orchestra, Phoenix Brass Collective, the MusicaNova Orchestra (Phoenix, AZ), Symphony of the Southwest (Mesa, AZ), and other ensembles. As an active proponent of new music, Brand is a founding member of the ‘Vive Ensemble (a trumpet/clarinet duo) that commissions and performs new works for trumpet and clarinet. The ensemble has appeared at the International Duo Symposium, International ClarinetFest, and at the Regional College Music Society conference in Bellingham, Washington. Brand earned his DMA from Arizona State University and his research centers on Czech trumpet playing and repertoire. Brand’s investigation of Czech musical style encompasses interviews and consultation with famous Czech trumpet players, culminating in a catalogue of over 200 Czech solo works for trumpet, providing a resource for performers and educators seeking to explore underrepresented European trumpet repertoire. He has presented this research at the International Trumpet Guild Conference, Historic Brass Society Symposium, and trumpet studios across the country. Brand is a Van Laar performing artist, and his teachers include David Hickman, David Baldwin, Robert Dorer, Ladislav Kozderka, and Albert Moore.