Kathryn Umble Smucker, DMA Lancaster PA
717-333-7853 KateUmble@gmail.com
Education:
Doctorate of Musical Arts, University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance Major in Trumpet Performance
Major Professor: Dr. Keith Benjamin
Master of Music, University of North Texas
Major in Trumpet Performance, secondary emphasis in Wind Conducting Major Professor: Mr. Keith Johnson
Bachelor of Music, University of Northern Colorado, 2007 Major in Trumpet Performance
Major Professor: Dr. Robert Murray
Bachelor of Music Education, University of Northern Colorado, 2007 Major in Instrumental Music K-12
Major Professor: Dr. Richard Mayne
Other Principal Teachers:
Dan Thomas, UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance (Jazz Improvisation) Jan Broda, Janáček Academy, Brno, Czech Republic
Ray Mase, Aspen Music Festival (2006) Kevin Cobb, Aspen Music Festival (2006) William Pfund, Rocky Ridge Music Center (2004) Victor Rislow, Susquehanna University
Additional lessons with: Charles Geyer, John Hagstrom, Thomas Hooten, Susan Slaughter, Mark Hughes, Kevin Good, Dr. Susan Rider, Jennifer Marotta, Gary Schutza, and Phil Clark.
Teaching Experience:
Adjunct Faculty, Millersville University, fall 2014-present
Teaching assignments: Music 100: Music and Culture, Music 368: International Music Supervisor: Dr. Micheal Houlahan, Micheal.houlahan@millersville.edu
Music Mentor, Music For Everyone, Lancaster, PA January 2013 to January 2015
Teaching assignments: Teach brass players in six elementary schools and two middle schools, both in a group lesson and private lesson setting.
Supervisor: Mr. Michael Slechta, mjslecta@lancaster.k12.pa.us
Instrumental Music, Lancaster Mennonite School – Kraybill Campus, 2013- 2014 Teaching assignments: Middle School Band, Grades 4-8 instrumental lessons Supervisor: Principal Judi Mollenkov, mollenkofju@lancastermennonite.org
Adjunct Faculty, University of Missouri Kansas City, 2010-2012
Teaching assignments: Undergraduate Applied Trumpet, spring and fall 2010, Trumpet Techniques spring 2011 and spring 2012
Additional duties: managed studio schedule and studio classes, coordinated visiting professors, communicated with Dean’s office and wind department head, represented the trumpet studio during the NASM accreditation visit
Supervisor: Dr. Jane Carl, CarlJ@umkc.edu
Teaching Assistant, University of Missouri Kansas City, 2009 to 2012 Teaching assignments: Non-Majors Applied Trumpet
Additional duties: managed studio schedule and studio classes Supervisor: Dr. Keith Benjamin, benjamink@umkc.edu
Teaching Assistant, University of North Texas, Denton Texas, fall 2008
Teaching assignments: lectured and graded assignments for Music Appreciation Supervisor: Dr. Margaret Notley, margaret.notley@unt.edu
Summer Arts Enrichment Coordinator and Teacher, Millersville University, Millersville PA, Summer 2013
Created, coordinated, and will teach summer music programs in July 2013 Supervisor: Barry Kornhauser, Barry.Kornhauser@millersville.edu
Brass Instructor, Perfect 5th Music Center, Mechanicsburg, PA 2013 to present Private instructor of trumpet, trombone, and euphonium and instructor for Ear Training course
Supervisor: Eric Wirsing, eric@theperfect5th.com
Private trumpet instructor, UMKC Community Music and Dance Academy, 2009 to 2012
Created, coordinated and taught summer music programs in 2011 and 2012: Bang on a Can, Kids Meet Brass, and Kids Meet Woodwinds
Supervisor: Dr. Mara Gibson, gibsonmb@umkc.edu
Prosper Independent School District, Prosper Texas 2007-2009 Private trumpet instructor (all levels)
Lake Dallas Independent School District, Lake Dallas Texas 2007-2009 Private trumpet instructor (all levels) master classes, Band Camp
Teaching Certification:
Certified in Music K-12 in Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming Student Teaching: spring 2007
Rocky Mountain High School, Fort Collins, Colorado
Directed 9th grade band, jazz band, brass quintet, woodwind quintet, clarinet choir, Dixieland band and pep band
Cooperating Teacher: Mr. Scott Schlupp, sschlup@psdschools.org Madison Elementary, Greeley, Colorado
Taught general music K-5, directed 4th and 5th grade choir
Performing Experience:
Solo Performances:
Soloist with the Northland Symphony Orchestra, Hummel Concerto for Trumpet, March 10, 2013 Solo Recital and Masterclass, University of Tennessee at Martin, February 26-27, 2013
Solo Recital and Masterclass, Columbus State University, February 8, 2013 Solo Recital and Masterclass, Virginia Tech, February 6, 2013
Soloist, 37th Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference, New Works Recital Performance of Sketches for unaccompanied trumpet by Jennifer Edmondson. May 23, 2012
Doctoral Lecture Recital, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Creating Performance
Opportunities for Beginners with the Companion to Robert W. Getchell's “First Book Of Practical Studies” A presentation of my dissertation project, A Getchell Companion Doctoral Recital, University of Missouri-Kansas City, December 4, 2011
Doctoral Recital, University of Missouri-Kansas City, December 2, 2010 Solo Recital, Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster, November 26, 2010 Doctoral Recital, University of Missouri-Kansas City, March 25, 2009
Masters Recital, University of North Texas, June 9, 2009 Senior Recital, University of Northern Colorado, spring 2007 Junior Recital, University of Northern Colorado, fall 2006
Orchestral experience:
Allentown Symphony, Second Trumpet, Allentown PA, 2013-2014
Principal Trumpet, Northland Symphony, Kansas City Missouri, 2009 to 2012 Selected repertoire performed:
Barber Essay No. 1
Brahms Academic Festival Overture Bruckner Symphony No. 4
Copland Rodeo
Prokofiev Symphony No. 7 Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 Sibelius Symphony No. 5 Franck Symphony in D minor
Allegro Chamber Orchestra, Section and Principal Trumpet, 2013-Present Lancaster Symphony, Section Trumpet, 2013-Present
Extra Trumpet, Kansas City Symphony, 2011 to 2012 Boulder Mahler Festival Orchestra, 2013
Wyoming Symphony, Casper, Wyoming, 2007
Aspen Music Festival Orchestras, Aspen, Colorado, summer 2006 Northeast Orchestra, Colleyville, Texas 2008
Mesquite Orchestra, Mesquite, Texas 2007
Chamber Music and New Music:
Founder of Spark Brass, see www.SparkBrass.com for details, 2013 to present Susquehanna Brass Quintet, Lancaster PA, 2012 to present
Quintessentially Brass, Lancaster PA, 2012 to present Brookside Brass Quintet, Kansas City, 2011 to 2012
15 Performances of “The Sounds of Science” through the Kansas City Young Audiences Program in KC metro elementary schools
Immanuel Brass Quintet, Kansas City, 2010 to 2012 Exquisite Brass, Fort Collins, Colorado 2006-2007
Member of “The Informalists,” a new music group, Kansas City, fall 2011
Other:
Founder of The King Street Big Band, Lancaster PA, January 2015-present Lancaster British Brass Band, Lancaster PA, 2013-Present
Princeton Brass Band, Princeton NJ, 2013 to present
First Place in 2013 North American Brass Band Association Championship Division Fulton Opera Company Pit Orchestra, Lancaster PA, Fall 2012 to present
White Christmas, The Producers, Gypsy, Singin in the Rain, Dream Girls
Allenberry Playhouse, Boiling Springs PA, spring 2013 (The Andrews Brothers) New Jazz Order Big Band, Kansas City, 2009 to 2012
International Youth Wind Orchestra, principal trumpet 2005 (Singapore); section trumpet 2007 (Ireland) For World Association of Symphonic Bands and Ensembles (WASBE) Conferences
Member of “Mariachi Mexico,” a professional Mariachi Band, Dallas, Texas 2008
University Performances:
UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance ensembles, 2009 to 2012: Wind Symphony, Brass Quintet, Concert Jazz Band
University of North Texas Ensembles, 2007-2009: Wind Symphony, Symphony Orchestra, Symphonic Band, Baroque Orchestra, Brass Quintet
Honors and Awards:
Awarded the campus-wide “Superior Graduate Teaching Award” from UMKC, 2012 Awarded a “High Pass” on the research essay and comparative essay sections of the UMKC
doctoral comprehensive exams, 2012 Graduate Teaching Assistantship, UMKC, 2009
Donald E. Waugh Memorial Music Scholarship, UNT, 2007-2009
Semifinalist in the National Trumpet Competition, college solo division, 2006 Semifinalist in the National Trumpet Competition, ensemble divisions, 2006 Program Scholar for the UNC School of Music, 2006
Finalist in the Rocky Mountain Concerto Competition, 2004, 2005 Board of Trustees Award UNC, 2004-2007
Susquehanna University Isaac’s Scholarship, 2002-2004
Deans List for Susquehanna University, University of Northern Colorado, University of North Texas and University of Missouri Kansas City, 2002-2012
Discography:
University of North Texas Wind Symphony, Eugene Migliaro Corporon, Conductor WABSE 2009: North Texas Wind Symphony (2009, Mark Records 8471-MCD) Teaching Music Through Performance in Band Vol. 1 Grade 5/6
City of Glass and Steel (2007, Grand Mesa Music Publishers)
Commissions:
Pinocchio Portraits, by Sy Brandon, Commissioned by Spark Brass Boomwhacker Blues, arr. Aaron Linscheid, Commissioned by Spark Brass Pattern in Isolation, by Tyler Gilmore, Commissioned by Spark Brass
Stop. Rewind. Play. by Benjamin D. Taylor (MM Composition Indiana University)
Sketches for Trumpet by Jennifer Edmondson (MM Composition UMKC) – Performed on the 2012 International Trumpet Guild “New Works Recital”
A Very Brief History of Language by Lauren Wells Keller (MM Composition University of Delaware)
Professional Activities:
Founder and artistic director of Lancaster New Sounds, a concert series for new music in Lancaster PA. (An Unincorporated Non-Profit Association, Successful Kickstarter campaign completed August 28, 2014)
Pre-concert lecture and post-concert talkback, Schoenberg’s Erwartung, op. 17, Millersville University, February 18, 2015
Masterclass Presentation, Lebanon Valley College, October 8, 2014
Lecture, “A History of Liturgical Music” at Community Mennonite Church of Lancaster, April 6 2013
Masterclass Presentation, West Chester University “Trumpet Boot Camp,” June 3, 2012
Committee Member for the Rainbow Mennonite Performing Arts Series, a non-profit performing arts series providing free concerts for the Rosedale Community in Kansas City KS 2011-2012
Member of the International Trumpet Guild
References:
Dr. Mícheál B. Houlahan
Music Department Chair Professor of Music Millersville University P.O. Box 1002, Millersville, PA 17551-0302 717-871-2197 Micheal.Houlahan@millersville.edu Dr. Anita Renfroe Professor of Piano Millersville University P.O. Box 1002, Millersville, PA 17551-0302 717-872-3370 Anita.Renfroe@millersville.edu Dr. Christopher Campbell Professor of Trumpet Lebanon Valley College 101 College Avenue Annville, PA 17003
Dr. Keith Benjamin
Professor of Trumpet
University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music and Dance 5227 Holmes
Kansas City, MO 64110 (816) 235-2904
benjamink@umkc.edu
Mr. Keith Johnson
Regents Professor of Trumpet University of North Texas 1155 Union Circle #311277 Denton, TX 76203-5017 (940) 565-3740
keithjohnson884@gmail.com
Dr. Robert Murray
Associate Professor of Trumpet Columbus State University 4225 University Avenue Columbus, Georgia 31907
