Texas A&M University-Kingsville Trumpet Studio

Dr. Kyle Millsap, Assistant Professor of Trumpet & Jazz

South Texas Trumpet Workshop

FeaturingMs. Judith SaxtonDr. Kyle Millsap

TAMUK Trumpet EnsemblesTAMUK Jazz Combo 1

Sunday, February 19, 2017Bellamah Music Building

Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Schedule of Events

8:30: Registration - Lobby, Bellamah Music Building

9:00: Group Warm-Up Class - Smith Recital Hall • Ms. Judith Saxton

10:00: Performance: TAMUK Trumpet Ensembles Smith Recital Hall (instrument try-out available)

10:30: Group Alexander Technique Masterclass - Smith Recital Hall • Ms. Judith Saxton

11:30: Mass Trumpet Ensemble Rehearsal Smith Recital Hall (instrument try-out available)

• Dr. Kyle Millsap

1:30: Masterclass w/ Student Performances - Smith Recital Hall • Ms. Judith Saxton

2:30: Performance: TAMUK Jazz Combo I Smith Recital Hall

3:00: Masterclass w/ Student Performances - Smith Recital Hall • Dr. Kyle Millsap

4:00: Mass Trumpet Ensemble Rehearsal Smith Recital Hall

• Dr. Kyle Millsap

5:00: Artist Recital - Smith Recital Hall

About the Clinicians

Judith Saxton enjoys a multi-faceted career as an international soloist, chamber and orchestral musician and educator and has been lauded as a “virtuoso player and superb soloist”. A Certified Alexander Technique Teacher (ATI), Judith aims to embody these principles in all her interactions.

As a recitalist, Ms. Saxton has performed in the UK, China, and Brasil, and concertizes nationally with Timothy Olsen, organ, and Allison Gagnon, piano with whom she recorded her acclaimed solo CD Concert and Contest Pieces for Trumpet, distributed globally to the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) membership. As principal and soloist, she leads the Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival, and is on Eastern Music Festival (EMF) faculty with whom she records annually under Gerard Schwarz’s leadership. She performs regularly with an array of orchestral and chamber organizations on the eastern seaboard of the US. She regularly offers master classes at conservatories, festivals and conferences world-wide as a Conn-Selmer clinician. A keen advocate of new music, she continues to ardently promote, co-commission and premiere new works; she has soloed with a variety of orchestras and bands in the US and

abroad.

For several seasons, Judith was principal and soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic, Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Illinois, South Bend, Illinois Chamber, Wichita and Key West/South Florida Symphonies. She was also an extra and substitute with the Chicago Symphony and brass quintet. In demand as a versatile musician during her decades-long freelance career, Judith performs for a variety of shows, commercials, recording sessions, big bands and combos. Chamber credits include Southeast Chamber Brass, Wichita Brass Quintet, Chicago Chamber Musicians, Sierra Brass (Japan tours), Musica Harmonica (Brazil tour), Tromba Mundi, Millar and Monarch Brass ensembles. A charter 2-year member as soloist and principal solo cornet of the North Carolina Brass Band, she was soloist for First in Flight; their second CD is Christmas Wrapped in Brass, 2016. Further recordings include Naxos, Crystal, Koss, Proto, Novitas, MSR Classics and Moravian Music Foundation labels. Recently, she has written and recorded for Vincent Cichowicz Long Tone Studies and Flow Studies Volumes 1 and 2. She has been a frequent contributor to the ITG Journal and the Brass Herald.

Previously, Ms. Saxton was guest principal for the St. Louis Symphony, and an extra for Milwaukee, Grant Park, Sydney (Australia) and Harrisburg Symphonies. She was principal for New York Women’s Ensemble and Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival, and Artist Faculty for Lieksa Brass Week, Finland. She served 10 years at University of North Carolina School of the Arts as Trumpet Artist/Faculty and Brass/Percussion Chair. Additionally, she was tenured Associate Professor at Wichita State University. She taught previously at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts and Illinois Wesleyan and Northeastern Illinois Universities.

Ms. Saxton holds board memberships with EMF, and served several terms for ITG, National Trumpet Competition, International Women’s Brass Conference and Fulbright National Screening Committee. A graduate of Mansfield (PA) and Northwestern Universities, Saxton’s most influential teachers were Vincent Cichowicz, Arnold Jacobs, William Scarlett, Susan Slaughter and Michael Galloway.

Her students can be found performing and teaching around the globe. More can be learned about Ms. Saxton’s performing and teaching at JudithSaxton.com

Contact Us: e-mail: kyle.millsap@tamuk.edu

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KYLE MILLSAP is Assistant Professor of Trumpet & Jazz at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Along with overseeing the trumpet program, he directs Jazz Band 3, the trumpet ensembles, the Jazz Trumpet Ensemble, and performs with the Kingsville Brass Quintet.

He has performed as lead trumpet for shows/concerts with The Temptations, Mannheim Steamroller, Johnny Mathis, the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Al Kapone, Kirk Whalum, and the Jazz Orchestra of the Delta. He has performed at halftime for the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies, multiple events for Elvis Presley Enterprises, and on Memphis Public Radio WKNO. Orchestral credits include the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, Wichita Symphony Orchestra, and Orquesta Sinfonica UANL, as well as productions with Ballet Memphis. Theater credits include performances for numerous Broadway national touring companies. He has been a featured soloist with the Corpus Christi Wind Symphony, the TAMUK Wind Symphony, and the TAMUK Chamber Orchestra.

His articles and reviews are published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal and his compositions and arrangements have been published through Cimarron Music and Triplo Press. He is a member of the Artist Faculty for the National Trumpet Competition. He can be heard with his wife Melissa on their upcoming album Scatter the Darkness.

Dr. Millsap holds the DMA degree from the University of Memphis, MM degree from the University of North Texas, and BM degree from Wichita State University. He is a Yamaha Performing Artist, as well as an artist for Torpedo Bags.

Special thanks to: Ms. Judith Saxton

Mr. Zachary Harwell Conn-Selmer

South Texas Music Mart Texas A&M University-Kingsville

Department of Music TAMUK Trumpet Guild