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cdecker@tntech.edu

Trumpet Professor Charles Decker has performed with the Eastman Wind Ensemble, Rochester Philharmonic, Berkshire Music Center Orchestra, Austin Symphony, Knoxville Symphony, and was solo cornet and soloist with the U.S. Army Field Band of Washington, D.C. He has appeared on National Public Television concert specials and recorded three CD’s with the Brass Arts Quintet (TTU brass faculty). With a University grant, he produced the CD “Recital and Festival Solos for Trumpet” with Joy Rachor, piano. He has appeared at major music conferences in 13 states as a performer, clinician, adjudicator, conductor, and arranger. The author of brass pedagogy articles which have appeared in numerous professional journals, his trumpet and brass ensemble publications have sold more than 10,000 copies and his arrangements have been recorded by professionals and performed by musicians in the United States, Europe, and Russia. Decker holds degrees from Eastman School of Music, Northwestern University, University of Texas, and was a fellowship recipient to the Berkshire Music Center.