Jack Brndiar is Principal trumpet and has been featured soloist

of the Grammy Award-winning Cleveland Chamber Symphony,

a member of the Paragon Brass Quintet, the Kent Brass Quintet, Mark Dulin leads an active career as a performer and
The University of Akron Brass Quintet, the Festival Mozaic educator. Dr. Dulin is the Instructor of Trumpet at The
Orchestra, and the Blossom Festival Orchestra and Band. He University of Akron. He has held positions with the
has performed, recorded and toured with The Cleveland Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Jacksonville Symphony
Orchestra, under conductors including Lorin Maazel, Christoph Orchestra, Sarasota Symphony and Western Piedmont
von Dohnanyi, Pierre Boulez and many others, for 34 years as a Symphony. Additionally he has performed frequently with
substitute and extra trumpeter, first performing with the the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and Winston Salem
Orchestra at the age of 21.
Symphony. As a chamber musician Dulin has performed
As a free lance musician, Mr. Brndiar has performed with the
Metropolitan Opera, the Ohio Chamber Orchestra, the with the Charlotte Symphony Chamber Players, Florida
Cleveland Ballet and Opera Orchestras, the Baldwin Wallace Brass Quintet and the Atelier Ensemble. In October 2009
Bach Festival Orchestra, Red {an orchestra}, the Blue Water Mark Dulin gave the North American premiere of Dimitri
Chamber Orchestra, the Akron Baroque, the orchestras of
Akron, Ashland, Canton, Erie, Wooster and Youngstown, the
Shostakovich's Op. 41a with the Emerson String Quartet.
Cleveland Pops, Mannheim Steamroller, the Cleveland Jazz He is a Vincent Bach Performing Artist. Dulin has written
Orchestra and Jazz Unit, and the Hot Jazz 7. With the Paragon articles for the International Trumpet Guild Journal
Brass Quintet he has toured and presented master classes in the including interviews with Hakan Hardenberger and Kevin
U.S., Europe and in China, and he has appeared as trumpet and
cornet soloist with the Wooster Symphony, the Parma Cobb and Raymond Mase of the American Brass Quintet.
Symphony, the Euclid Orchestra, the Freedom Brass Band, the He has also edited and arranged Thomas Morley’s
Strongsville Community Band, the Packard Band, the Patriot Complete Canzonets for Two Voices for Two Trumpets.
Band, and as conductor and soloist with the Lakewood
Hometown Band. He has played in Broadway touring company This collection is published by Balquhidder Music. Dr.
productions, and has recorded for the Cleveland Symphonic Dulin also co-editor of the Long Tones Studies, Flow
Winds, the Detroit Concert Band, the Ludwig Publishing Studies Volume One, and Volume Two, by the late Vincent
Company, and for numerous radio, TV commercials and pop
music hits including the original Play that Funky Music by Wild
Cichowicz. He co- edited these books with Mr.
Cherry. He has also been featured on piccolo trumpet in Cichowicz’s son, Michael Cichowicz. It is published by
numerous performances of Penny Lane by the BW Beatles and Studio 259 Productions in association with Balquhidder
the Classical Mystery Tour group. An article he wrote on Music. Dr. Dulin is a graduate of the Indiana School of The University of Akron
trumpet playing appears in the No. 52 issue of Windplayer
magazine.Jack is a Cleveland Institute of Music graduate (M.M. Music, the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory
1978) and has been on the faculty of the CIM Preparatory of Music and SUNY Stony Brook. His teachers include
School of Music!
Department. He has taught trumpet at Case Western Reserve Kevin Cobb (American Brass Quintet) John Rommel
University since 1976, and is also an Instructor of trumpet and www.uakron.edu/music
Director of the Brass Choir and the Bach Festival Brass at the (Indiana University), Marie Speziale (former Associate
Baldwin Wallace Conservatory, where he graduated with a Principal Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra), Michael Sachs [email protected]
B.M.E in 1975. Mr. Brndiar has been on the faculty at (Principal Trumpet, Cleveland Orchestra) James Pandolfi
Cleveland State University, the University of Akron, Ashland
University, the College of Wooster, and the Oberlin
(former Trumpet, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra), Joseph
Conservatory. His trumpet teachers include Bernard Adelstein, Phelps (Appalachian State University).
Charles Schlueter, James Darling, and Mary Squire.
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Jazz!Studies!National/International!Tours!Tommy!
Recent Guest Artists at The University of Akron Dorsey!Orchestra!(US,!Japan)!Glenn!Miller!
Orchestra!(US,!Japan)!Artie!Shaw!Orchestra!(US)!
Michael Sachs, Principal Trumpet, The Cleveland Woody!Herman!Orchestra!(US)!Jack!Schantz!
Orchestra
Performance Opportunities at The University of Akron Quartet!(Germany)!Artistic!Director,!Cleveland!
Jazz!Orchestra!1993N2009!Guest!artists!(sample)!
Michael Miller, Trumpet, The Cleveland Orchestra
Symphonic Band Billy!Byers!Bob!Brookmeyer!Tom!Harrell!Slide!
Ingrid Jensen, International Jazz Soloist Hampton!Clark!Terry!Joe!Lovano!Bill!Holman!
Concert Band Clare!Fischer!Leader/Founder,!Jazz!Unit!Pit!
Neal Berntsen, Trumpet, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra!trumpet!(sample)!Guys!and!Dolls!Miss!
University Band
Orchestra Saigon!City!of!Angels!Showboat!Color!Purple!
Jazz Ensembles Sound!of!Music!Annie!Get!Your!Gun!Kiss!of!the!
Graham Breedlove, U. S. Army Blues Spiderwoman!Back!up!Orchestra!(sample)!Tony!
Symphony Orchestra Bennett,!Sarah!Vaughn!Mel!Torme,!Johnny!Mathis!
Anthony Plog, International Soloist and Composer Nancy!Wilson,!Jack!Jones!Rosemary!Clooney!
New Music Ensemble Cleveland!Pops!Orchestra!1998N2009!Blossom!
Jerry Hey, Studio Musician, Los Angeles
Festival!Band!2002N2009!Blossom!Festival!
Brass Choir Orchestra!2005N2009!Akron!Symphony!Orchestra!
Dominic Spera, Professor Emeritus, Indiana
(sub)!Recordings!(sample)!Speechless,!Jack!
University
Brass Quintet Schantz!Quartet!Oscar!Peterson!Christmas!Album!
Max Matzen, Professor of Trumpet, Utah State Choices,!Jack!Schantz!Jazz!Unit!I!Love!To!Tell!The!
Trumpet Ensemble
University Story,!Jack!Schantz!Quartet!Surprise!of!Being,!
Cleveland!Jazz!Orchestra!with!Joe!Lovano!
Cleveland!Jazz!Orchestra,!Traditions!Cleveland!
Jazz!Orchestra,!Swingin'!Together!with!Sammy!
Nestico!Helen!Welch,!One!Dream!Nancy!Wilson,!
Turned!to!Blue!Barbara!Knight,!Night!and!Day!
Gap!Mangione,!Family!Heirlooms!Glenn!Davis!
Quintet!with!Phil!Woods!Blossom!Festival!Band.