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Associate Professor of Music

D.M.A., Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
M.M.-Applied Trombone, New England Conservatory
M.M.-Wind Conducting, New England Conservatory
B.M., Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester

Academic Areas: applied trombone, brass techniques, conductor - Trombone Ensemble & Symphony Band.

Dr. Phillip A. Ostrander
239 Haas Fine Arts Center
Music & Theatre Arts Department
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
Eau Claire, WI 54702-4004

Phone: 715/836-4156
Email: ostranpa@uwec.edu

Phil Ostrander is Associate Professor of Trombone at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire where he conducts the Symphony Band and teaches private trombone, trombone ensemble and brass techniques.  Prior to his work at Eau Claire, he held a faculty position in New York at SUNY Geneseo teaching trombone and jazz studies.  Dr. Ostrander completed his doctoral studies in trombone performance and literature at the Eastman School of Music in the studio of Dr. John Marcellus.  Dr. Ostrander received master's degrees in both trombone and wind conducting from the New England Conservatory, as well as a bachelor's and Performer's Certificate from Eastman.  From 1999 to 2001, he taught trombone and conducted the wind ensemble at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.  He has performed with the Minnesota Orchestra, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra, the Rochester Philharmonic, the Kansas City Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the popular chamber group Rhythm and Brass. Currently, he is a member of the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in Memphis, Tennessee under Michael Stern and also the new Principal Trombone of the Minnesota Opera Orchestra.  An accomplished jazz trombonist, Dr. Ostrander has collaborated with jazz artists Maria Schneider, Jim McNeely, Jimmy Heath, Claudio Roditi and Rich Beirach.  He teaches jazz at the Shell Lake Arts Camp in northern Wisconsin.  He has recorded on Sony Classical with the Eastman Wind Ensemble and Naxos with the IRIS Orchestra.  Dr. Ostrander is a clinician for the Conn-Selmer Musical Instrument Company.

Related Links:
UW-Eau Claire Bands
Band Handbook
Trombone Summit
Trombone Ensemble - Performance at Twins Game (Video)

Courses:

• MUSI 165/365 Applied Trombone
        Warm-up Packet
        Scales Packet
        Jazz Packet
  
• MUSI 180/380 Symphony Band
• MUSI 202 Brass Techniques
• MUSI 256/456 Brass Ensemble