Brass at The University of Alabama School of Music
The University of Alabama School of Music is becoming recognized as one of the premiere centers for brass study in the southeast. With an esteemed faculty of brass teachers who maintain active national and international performance careers, the brass area at The University of Alabama continues to produce graduates who populate the professional world of music at all levels as music educators, performers in symphony orchestras and military bands, university teachers, and more.
Alabama brass area applied instrumental professors bring to their students vast experience from some of the world’s most respected teachers, performance backgrounds cultivated in major artistic cultural centers throughout the United States, and a deeply rooted commitment to the future successes of brass students at The University of Alabama School of Music. The faculty’s varied careers encompass solo performance, orchestral performance, chamber music, and more, all at the highest professional levels.
Brass students at the University of Alabama perform with the School of Music’s Huxford Symphony, the Alabama Wind Ensemble and Symphonic Band, the Jazz Ensemble, and Contemporary Ensemble. Various chamber groups also contribute to the performance outlets available to brass students at UA, with the studios maintaining an active horn ensemble, trumpet ensemble, trombone ensemble, and euphonium and tuba ensembles. There are also student brass quintets, brass quartets, and a brass choir.
Brass Faculty:
Eric Yates, Assistant Professor of Trumpet
Skip Snead, Professor of Horn
Jonathan Whitaker, Assistant Professor of Trombone (studio site)
Demondrae Thurman, Associate Professor of Euphonium and Tuba
The degrees offered in the brass area are:
BM Performance
BM Jazz Studies
BM Composition
BM Theory
BM Music Therapy
BA General Music
BA Arts Administration
BS Music Education
MM Performance
MM Wind Conducting
MM Composition
MM Theory
MM Musicology
MA Curriculum and Instruction
DMA Performance
DMA Composition
DMA Wind Conducting
DMA Musicology
PhD, EdS, EdD in Curriculum and Instruction