Guest Artist Kenneth Kroesche, trombone & euphonium

Master Class
Thursday, November 15, 2007
4-6:00 p.m., Phillips Recital Hall

Guest Artist Recital
Friday, November 16, 2007
7:30 p.m., Gantner Concert Hall
Haas Fine Arts Center
UW-Eau Claire
Free & Open to the Public

Guest Soloist with the Wind Symphony
Guest Conductor with the Symphony Band
Sunday, November 18, 2007
2:00 p.m., Gantner Concert Hall

Sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, College of Arts & Sciences, Department of Music & Theatre Arts, and the Wind and Percussion Area.

Kenneth Kroesche is currently the Associate Professor of Trombone, Euphonium and Tuba at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan where he serves as the Coordinator of Applied Instrumental Music.  Previously, he has served in a similar role at Western Carolina University and has held teaching positions at Lenoir-Rhyne College, University of Michigan-Flint and the Schools of Music at the Universities of Michigan and Georgia.  Dr. Kroesche holds a master's degree in music and doctorate of musical arts degree in performance from the University of Michigan, in addition to a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas State University.

Dr. Kroesche has appeared as a euphonium soloist with a number of notable ensembles, including a guest appearance as a concerto artist with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. This honor was the result of a competitive nationwide audition sponsored by the orchestra and their music director, Mstislav Rostropovich. The Washington Post's review of this concert described him as "an expert on the instrument." He has presented recitals at the 2000 and 2002 International Tuba & Euphonium Conferences (ITEC), as well as the U.S. Army International Euphonium and Tuba Conference.  He currently serves as the principal trombonist of the Pontiac-Oakland and the Rochester (MI) Symphony Orchestras and is euphoniumist with the Toledo (OH) Concert Band.  In addition, he frequently performs with the Toledo Symphony and Detroit Chamber Winds.  As a scholar of the euphonium, he recently contributed a chapter to the newly published Euphonium Source Book.

In addition to his prominence as a euphonium and trombone soloist, Dr. Kroesche is an accomplished conductor.  He has become a regular conductor for the Michigan Chamber Brass, which is a brass ensemble comprised of the southeastern Michigan’s finest professional brass players.  This past October, he accepted a position as the Music Director and Conductor of the Capital City Brass Band of Lansing, Michigan.

For More Information Contact: 
Dr. Jerry Young
149 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-3633
Email: jyoung@uwec.edu