Mike Tunnell
Applied Music Studies, Brass - Trumpet
Michael Tunnell has been Professor of Trumpet at
the University of Louisville School of Music since 1988 where he performs with
Louisville Brass and conducts the Trumpet Ensemble. The University of
Louisville awarded Tunnell the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2003. Tunnell
performs as Principal Trumpet and Principal Corno da Caccia with the Louisville
Bach Society and as Auxiliary Trumpet with the Louisville Orchestra. A founding
member of the brass quintet Sonus Brass, Tunnell has toured the Far East and South
America with this group and as a soloist. As a member of Sonus Brass and
individually, Tunnell has been a teacher and clinician for the Youth Orchestra
System in Venezuela, and a soloist with the Simon Bolivar Orquesta Sinfonica in
Caracas. He also is a founding member of the Derby City Brass Band. In
addition, he is featured on the Mark Records CD Sonus Brass Captured and
the Centaur CD Louisville Brass: Season to Dance as well as six solo
recordings: Mixed Doubles, Melancholia, and Lumen, on the
Coronet label, and Passages, The Morning Trumpet, and à la
Chasse on the Centaur label. He can also be heard on the Sinfonia da Camera
of Illinois recording of the Saint-Saens Septet and on numerous
Louisville Orchestra First Edition recordings. Tunnell is a former member of
the music faculties of the University of Southern Mississippi, SUNY-Potsdam
College, the University of Illinois and the New England Music Camp. Tunnell is
a member of the International Trumpet Guild Board of Directors, and he served
as an editor for the ITG Journal from 1978-2000. In the summer of 1999 Tunnell
was a featured artist at Lieksa Brass Week in Lieksa, Finland, and in July,
2001 he was a Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Chile in
Santiago. He has served on the Artist Faculty of the National Trumpet
Competition and is an artist-clinician for Kanstul Trumpets.
Tunnell’s degrees are from the University of Tennessee (Bachelor of Music,
1976), The University of Louisville (Master of Music, 1978), and the University
of Southern Mississippi (Doctor of Musical Arts, 1982). Tunnell is the 2008
Alumni Fellow of the University of Louisville School of Music. His teachers
include Leon Rapier, Allan Cox, Arnold Jacobs, Adolph Herseth and Armando
Ghitalla. His students hold positions in prominent colleges and orchestras, and
they have enjoyed great success in numerous solo competitions both in the
United States and in Europe.
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