Grant Peters, Guest Faculty Trumpet Recital at 9:30 a.m. Feb. 16
Posted on February 12, 2019 by Keith Bohnet

Grant Peters will open USA Trumpet Day with a Guest Faculty Trumpet Recital on Saturday, February 16 at 9:30 a.m. in the Laidlaw Performing Arts Center Recital Hall.
Dr. Peters is Professor of Music at Missouri State University, where he teaches applied studio trumpet and is the brass area coordinator. He serves as the Vice-President/President-Elect of the International Trumpet Guild.
Admission to this Department of Music event is free and open to the public. Persons needing more information about this event or in need of special accommodation may call 251-460-7116 or 251-460-6136.
Interested trumpet players of all ages and ability levels are welcome to attend and
participate during USA Trumpet Day. More information about the event, including an
online registration form, can be found on the USA Trumpet Day website (www.southalabama.edu/colleges/music/trumpetday.html).
Any questions should be directed to Dr. Wood at (251) 460-7821 or pwood@southalabama.edu
About the artist
Grant S. Peters is Professor of Music at Missouri State University, where he teaches
applied studio trumpet and is the brass area coordinator. He serves as the Vice-President/President-Elect
of the International Trumpet Guild. Prior to his appointment at Missouri State, he
served as co-principal trumpet of the Orquesta del Principado de Asturias in northern
Spain (1992). During the 1989 season, while a member of the Columbia Artists Management
ensemble Dallas Brass, he recorded the album A Merry Christmas with Brass for the
Word Label. His primary research focus is new works for the trumpet by American composers,
and has numerous premiere performances at ITG conferences.
He has recorded three solo CDs of new works for trumpet with piano, organ and wind
ensemble, and has performed in solo and chamber settings in Canada, Spain, Poland,
England, Sweden, Thailand, Russia, Australia, Mexico and the Czech Republic. His students
have been named as finalists in the ITG Solo Competition and recipients of ITG Conference
Scholarships. In 2011 he was named Host of the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet
Solo Competition, held at Missouri State University.
Peters holds the B.M.E. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the M.M.
and D.M.A. degrees in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas. His
principal teachers include Dennis Schneider and Leonard Candelaria. Peters is a clinician/artist
for Schilke Trumpets.
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Need directions to Laidlaw? Just go to Google Maps at www.maps.google.com and enter "USA Laidlaw Performing Arts Center." We're actually on the corner of University Blvd. and USA Drive South.
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