Joel Treybig

Joel Treybig is on the faculty of the Belmont University School of Music where he works with undergraduate and graduate trumpet students, teaches music theory, performs with the Belmont Brass Quintet, and directs brass ensembles.

Treybig received his doctor of musical arts from the University of Texas at Austin, his master of music from the University of Akron and his bachelor’s of music education from Baldwin-Wallace Northern College of Music.

Treybig is an active solo recitalist and clinician, is a freelance performer in Nashville, and has performed as a guest artist in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas, including diverse venues such as Spivey Hall, the Vicksburg Chamber Music Festival, the Victoria Bach Festival and the New Texas and Bowling Green New Music Festivals.

As a performer of contemporary music, Treybig has worked with such American composers as John Cheetham, Eric Ewazen, Karel Husa, Kent Kennan, Joan Tower and Luigi Zaninelli, who have commended his performances of their music.

He has performed with symphony orchestras in Alabama, Mississippi, Ohio and Texas, and with numerous pit orchestras and chamber groups. His articles and music reviews have been published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal.



Jeff Phillips

Jeff Phillips is the director of instrumental music at Pope John Paul II High School in Hendersonville, Tenn., and teaches the trombone studio and performs with the Belmont Brass Quintet at Belmont University in Nashville.

He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, Western Kentucky University, and Austin Peay State University. He is active as a freelance trombonist in the Nashville area performing with groups such as the Tennessee Philharmonic Orchestra, the Nashville Wind Ensemble, and on the General Jackson.

Phillips has conducted clinics throughout Tennessee and Kentucky for students in middle school through college and has also published a variety of articles in the Bandworld, School Band and Orchestra and Tennessee Musician magazines and was co-author of the MENC’s Strategies for Teaching series and has written reviews for the NACWPI Journal.

He has served as president of the Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Association, and the Tennessee Chapter of the International Association of Jazz Education, and is currently state chair of the American School Band Directors Association and the National Catholic Band Association. Phillips is also the TMEA State Band chair and is the national treasurer for the American School Band Directors Association.



Matthew Manwarren

Matthew Manwarren, native of El Paso, Texas, was appointed as professor of piano at Belmont University in 2005. He received the bachelor’s of music degree from Texas Tech University and received his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Cincinnati Conservatory.

Dr. Manwarren is an active performer as soloist, chamber musician, and accompanist. From 1992-2005, he served as professor of music at Erskine College where he assumed the role of departmental chair in 1998.

In 2002, Dr. Manwarren was awarded the Harriet Pressly Smith Caldwell Professorship of Music at Erskine for outstanding teaching and performance accomplishments. Since 1998, he has served on the faculty of the Adamant Music School in Vermont, a prestigious summer program for gifted pianists from all over the world.

From 1994 until 2004, Dr. Manwarren served on the board of directors of the South Carolina Music Teachers Association. He was elected to a two-year term as president of that organization from 2000-2002.

Manwarren was recently awarded a Fulbright Specialist Grant by the Council for the International Exchange Scholars for the summer of 2006, providing him with the opportunity to travel to the University of Cape Town in South Africa to perform recitals and give master classes.



PROGRAM

The program for Thursday includes:Fantasy Suite by John Hingeston, (1610-1683)

• Fantasia

• Almand

• Ayre

An Elizabethan Songbook by Eric Ewazen (b.1954)

• Come Away, Come Sweet Love

• There is a Lady, Sweet and Kind

• Weep You No More, Sad Fountain

• Jack and Joan, They Think No Ill

Adagio from Concerto in D minor for Oboe, BWV 974 by Alessandro Marcello (1684-1750) Trans. J.S. Bach

Qatre Esquisses by Eugene Bozza (1905-1991)

Cousins by Herbert L. Clarke (1867-1945)