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Brass Faculty
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Trombone, Euphonium, & Tuba: Studio
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Jimmy Clark
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(903) 886-5297
Jimmy_Clark@tamu-commerce.edu
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Jimmy
Clark is the associate professor of low brass at Texas A&M
University-Commerce.
Mr. Clark is a
native of Commerce, Texas. He received his undergraduate degree at the
University of North Texas where he was a member of the One O’clock Lab Band
on bass trombone and tuba. He did graduate work at Yale University and
received his master’s degree from East Texas State University (Texas
A&M-Commerce). His teachers have been his father, James Clark, Neill
Humfeld, John Swallow, Royce Lumpkin, John Kitzman, Ed Jones and Vern
Kagarice. He currently teaches trombone, euphonium and tuba.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities at Texas
A&M-Commerce, Mr. Clark has an active performance schedule. He is the
principal trombone of the Dallas Opera Orchestra. He is also principal
trombone with the Dallas Wind Symphony with whom he has recorded nine
CD’s. He has performed with the New York City Ballet Orchestra, Santa Fe
Opera, Singapore Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, San Antonio Symphony, East
Texas Symphony, Richardson Symphony, Plano Symphony, and Keith Brion’s New
Sousa Band. He performs frequently as acting Principal Trombone with the
Dallas Symphony and Fort Worth Symphony. He has also played with the big
bands of Claude Gordon, Les Elgart, and Warren Covington. He has played
with such noted performers as Ella Fitzgerald, Carol Lawrence, Dion
Warwick, The Supremes, Marvin Gay, Jack Jones, Marvin Hamlisch, and Gladys
Knight, to name a few! Mr. Clark was selected as a member of the University
of North Texas One O’clock All-Star Alumni Band in 1996 and has also taught
at the University of North Texas. He has been on the staff of Blast of Brass
summer camp at Southern Methodist University since its inception in 1997.
He is a member of Sundance Brass Quintet, which performs throughout the
Southwest and is a clinician for Bach Trombones.
In 2003 Mr. Clark formed the Texas Trombone Octet, which won
the Remington Trombone Choir competition of the International Trombone
Association. This group performed at the International Trombone Festival in
Helsinki, Finland. His recordings of the TMEA all-state trombone etudes are
produced by Jordan Sound Productions and are distributed throughout Texas as
a performance guide for high school trombone students. His students have
gone on to Southern Methodist University, Baylor University, The Curtis
Institute, The Cleveland Institute, The Juilliard School, Temple University
and The President’s Own US Marine Band.
Twice, in 1997 and most recently in 2007, Mr. Clark has been
presented with the President’s Award by the International Trombone
Association, for his work as Advertising Manager of the International
Trombone Association Journal.
Mr. Clark is also active as a euphonium specialist and has
performed on euphonium with the Dallas Symphony, the Dallas Wind Symphony,
The Fort Worth Symphony, and various other groups.
Jimmy Clark is a Conn-Selmer artist & Endorses Bach Trombones Exclusively!
Mr. Clark's Bach trombone is outfitted with a Greenhoe Valve.
His wife Lou Ann is the high school librarian in Sulphur
Springs, Texas, and their son Chris, is a member of the trombone section of
the President’s Own United States Marine Band in Washington, DC.
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Horn: Studio
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Michael Morrow
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(903) 886-5300
Mike_Morrow@tamu-commerce.edu
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Michael Morrow
is in his 32nd year as Associate Professor of Horn at Texas A&M
University-Commerce and his 20th season as 2nd Horn of the Dallas Opera
Orchestra. A student of Philip Farkas at Indiana University, Mr. Morrow
also studied at Indiana State University and Morehead State University.
In 1994, Indiana State University honored him with the Music Alumni
Outstanding Achievement Award. He has appeared as a soloist at the
University of Arkansas, University of Kansas, University of North Texas,
and at the 25th International Horn Workshop. Mr. Morrow is also of
member of the Dallas Wind Symphony and has performed on 6 compact discs
with conductors Fredrick Fennell and Jerry Junkin. The newest Dallas
Wind Symphony CD, "The Music of Percy Grainger” was released in January
2009. As a member of the Dallas Opera Orchestra he recorded the World
Premier of Tobias Picker’s opera “Therese Raquin.” Mr. Morrow has
performed over eighty different operas with the Dallas Opera orchestra
including Wagner’s monumental 4 opera “Ring” cycle and Alban Berg’s 20th
century masterpiece Wozzeck. For the past 19 summers, he has performed
with the Breckenridge Festival Orchestra in Breckenridge, Colorado. Mr.
Morrow’s recording of “Contest solos for Horn” was released by Summit
records. Michael lives in Heath, Texas with his wife, Amanda, an oboist,
and their 6 year old daughter, Bailey Anne.
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Tuba & Euphonium
Jeff Baker
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jefftbaker@gmail.com |

Jeff Baker currently serves as the
adjunct instructor of tuba and euphonium at Texas A&M
University-Commerce. Raised in Garland, Texas, Mr. Baker started
playing tuba at the age of 11 and picked up bass trombone upon entering
high school. Mr. Baker went on to pursue music degrees from the
University of Oklahoma (BM) and the University of North Texas (MM). Mr.
Baker is a graduate teaching fellow at the University of North Texas
where he is working towards the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts with an
emphasis in ethnomusicology. Mr. Baker's previous teaching experience
includes applied low brass instruction at Cameron University in Lawton,
Oklahoma as well as a healthy studio of young aspiring musicians in the
Dallas metroplex.
As a performer, Mr. Baker is a
freelance bass trombonist/tubist in the Dallas area and has performed
with numerous ensembles throughout the southwest including the Lone Star
Wind Orchestra, Metropolitan Winds, Allen Philharmonic, Longview
Symphony, Lawton Philharmonic, and the Oklahoma City Philharmonic.
Mr. Baker has been a part of over fifteen recording projects on the
Klavier and Naxos labels. As an aspiring solo artist, Mr. Baker was a
semi-finalist for the Leonard Falcone International Tuba and
Euphonium Competition (2006, 2009) as well as the Potomac Music Academy
(2005) and the International Tuba and Euphonium Association Quartet
Competition (2006). Mr. Baker has also performed as a featured
soloist with the US Army Band (2007). Mr. Baker is a member
of TMEA, ITEA, and Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia. When Mr. Baker is not
performing or teaching, he enjoys fishing, camping, and spending time
with his wife, Cassidy.
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