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MLMF 2023 Faculty
Dr. Jonathan Whitaker joined the faculty of the University of Alabama in the fall of 2009.
At Alabama, Whitaker’s students have been tremendously successful in national and international solo competitions as well as being placed in some of the nation’s top summer music festivals. The University of Alabama Trombone
Choir has given performances at the 2010 Eastern Trombone Workshop, the
2011 International Trombone Festival in Nashville, TN and the 2013 International Trombone Festival in Columbus, GA. Whitaker has also appeared twice as a performer and clinician at the Eastern Trombone Workshop and two International Trombone Festivals. Whitaker is in great demand as a guest artist and has appeared at some of the most prestigious music schools in the country including The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Yale University, Indiana University and many more. As a soloist, Whitaker can be heard on numerous recordings including the 2018 release of his second solo recording entitled “Paceline” and his debut solo recording entitled “Nature’s Gift” with pianist Kevin Chance. He is a featured soloist on two recordings with the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble that include Anthony Barfield’s “Red Sky” and David Maslanka’s Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble. These recordings are available at www.jonathanwhitaker.com.
Whitaker has been very active in commissioning new works for the trombone. In 2016, he gave the world premiere of Nicola Ferro’s Mega for solo trombone and wind ensemble. In 2013, Whitaker gave the world premiere of Jim Stephenson’s Three Bones Concerto commissioned for the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble along with Joseph Alessi and Peter Ellefson. He also performed the work at the 2013 Eastern Trombone Workshop with the United States Army Band “The Pershing’s Own," again with Alessi and Ellefson. He is also responsible for the commissioning of Eric Ewazen’s Visions of Light. In 2012, Whitaker made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist at the New York Wind Band Festival. He has appeared as a soloist with all of the wind groups at Indiana University, the Augustana College Symphonic Band, the Purdue University Symphony Orchestra, the Henderson State University Wind Ensemble and performed a premiere performance of John Mackey’s Harvest: Concerto for Trombone with the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble in the fall of 2010. He also performed the American premier of Johan de Meij’s T-Bone Concerto with the Murray State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Whitaker has performed with the New York Philharmonic on three separate occasions including the orchestra’s 2012 Opening Gala that was broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center on PBS with music director Alan Gilbert.
Whitaker is currently Principal Trombone of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. He performs regularly with the Alabama Symphony and has also held positions and performed with the Harrisburg Symphony (PA), Mobile Symphony (AL), Arkansas Symphony, Pine Bluff Symphony (AR), Shreveport Symphony (LA), South Arkansas Symphony, Duluth-Superior Symphony (MN), Owensboro Symphony (KY), Evansville Philharmonic (IN), Richmond Symphony (IN), Jackson Symphony (TN) and the Paducah Symphony (KY). Whitaker holds degrees in trombone performance from Murray State University and the University of Minnesota and the Doctor of Music degree in Brass Pedagogy at Indiana University. Dr. Whitaker’s primary teachers include Ray Conklin, Tom Ashworth, M. Dee Stewart, Peter Ellefson and Joseph Alessi with additional studies with Arnold Jacobs, Edward Kleinhammer, Michael Mulcahy, Charlie Vernon and Douglas Wright. Jonathan Whitaker is a Conn-Selmer clinician and performing artist.
At Alabama, Whitaker’s students have been tremendously successful in national and international solo competitions as well as being placed in some of the nation’s top summer music festivals. The University of Alabama Trombone
Choir has given performances at the 2010 Eastern Trombone Workshop, the
2011 International Trombone Festival in Nashville, TN and the 2013 International Trombone Festival in Columbus, GA. Whitaker has also appeared twice as a performer and clinician at the Eastern Trombone Workshop and two International Trombone Festivals. Whitaker is in great demand as a guest artist and has appeared at some of the most prestigious music schools in the country including The Juilliard School, New England Conservatory, Yale University, Indiana University and many more. As a soloist, Whitaker can be heard on numerous recordings including the 2018 release of his second solo recording entitled “Paceline” and his debut solo recording entitled “Nature’s Gift” with pianist Kevin Chance. He is a featured soloist on two recordings with the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble that include Anthony Barfield’s “Red Sky” and David Maslanka’s Concerto for Trombone and Wind Ensemble. These recordings are available at www.jonathanwhitaker.com.
Whitaker has been very active in commissioning new works for the trombone. In 2016, he gave the world premiere of Nicola Ferro’s Mega for solo trombone and wind ensemble. In 2013, Whitaker gave the world premiere of Jim Stephenson’s Three Bones Concerto commissioned for the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble along with Joseph Alessi and Peter Ellefson. He also performed the work at the 2013 Eastern Trombone Workshop with the United States Army Band “The Pershing’s Own," again with Alessi and Ellefson. He is also responsible for the commissioning of Eric Ewazen’s Visions of Light. In 2012, Whitaker made his Carnegie Hall debut as a soloist at the New York Wind Band Festival. He has appeared as a soloist with all of the wind groups at Indiana University, the Augustana College Symphonic Band, the Purdue University Symphony Orchestra, the Henderson State University Wind Ensemble and performed a premiere performance of John Mackey’s Harvest: Concerto for Trombone with the University of Alabama Wind Ensemble in the fall of 2010. He also performed the American premier of Johan de Meij’s T-Bone Concerto with the Murray State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble. Whitaker has performed with the New York Philharmonic on three separate occasions including the orchestra’s 2012 Opening Gala that was broadcast on Live from Lincoln Center on PBS with music director Alan Gilbert.
Whitaker is currently Principal Trombone of the Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra. He performs regularly with the Alabama Symphony and has also held positions and performed with the Harrisburg Symphony (PA), Mobile Symphony (AL), Arkansas Symphony, Pine Bluff Symphony (AR), Shreveport Symphony (LA), South Arkansas Symphony, Duluth-Superior Symphony (MN), Owensboro Symphony (KY), Evansville Philharmonic (IN), Richmond Symphony (IN), Jackson Symphony (TN) and the Paducah Symphony (KY). Whitaker holds degrees in trombone performance from Murray State University and the University of Minnesota and the Doctor of Music degree in Brass Pedagogy at Indiana University. Dr. Whitaker’s primary teachers include Ray Conklin, Tom Ashworth, M. Dee Stewart, Peter Ellefson and Joseph Alessi with additional studies with Arnold Jacobs, Edward Kleinhammer, Michael Mulcahy, Charlie Vernon and Douglas Wright. Jonathan Whitaker is a Conn-Selmer clinician and performing artist.
Alex Parker is the director of Jazz Studies at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
He currently serves as the Director of the Baylor Jazz Ensemble, the Baylor Concert Jazz Ensemble, jazz combos, jazz string quartets and he teaches undergraduate and graduate students in several jazz disciplines. Before coming to Baylor, he was assistant band director and then (beginning in November 2000) head band director at Pflugerville High School. Prior to his position in the Pflugerville Independent School District, he served as band and orchestra director at Fort Lauderdale High School in Florida. The high school bands with which he has been associated have been sweepstakes winners in both the Texas University Interscholastic League and the Florida Bandmasters Association. In 2010, he received the Baylor University Outstanding Professor Award for Teaching.
He was a full scholarship recipient at the University of Miami, where he studied jazz with Whit Sidner and conducting with Gary Green. He was also a merit scholarship recipient at the Eastman School of Music, where his principal teachers were Fred Sturm, Bill Dobbins (jazz) and Barbara Butler (trumpet). His background is in jazz writing, performance and pedagogy, as well as trumpet performance and instrumental teaching. Mr. Parker is a founding director of the Texas Jazz Educators Association and he now serves as the Executive Officer of TJEA. He is also the editor of the Texas All-State Jazz Etudes. He is a past president of the Texas Chapter of the International Association for Jazz Education and he is a charter member of the Jazz Educators Network.
He currently serves as the Director of the Baylor Jazz Ensemble, the Baylor Concert Jazz Ensemble, jazz combos, jazz string quartets and he teaches undergraduate and graduate students in several jazz disciplines. Before coming to Baylor, he was assistant band director and then (beginning in November 2000) head band director at Pflugerville High School. Prior to his position in the Pflugerville Independent School District, he served as band and orchestra director at Fort Lauderdale High School in Florida. The high school bands with which he has been associated have been sweepstakes winners in both the Texas University Interscholastic League and the Florida Bandmasters Association. In 2010, he received the Baylor University Outstanding Professor Award for Teaching.
He was a full scholarship recipient at the University of Miami, where he studied jazz with Whit Sidner and conducting with Gary Green. He was also a merit scholarship recipient at the Eastman School of Music, where his principal teachers were Fred Sturm, Bill Dobbins (jazz) and Barbara Butler (trumpet). His background is in jazz writing, performance and pedagogy, as well as trumpet performance and instrumental teaching. Mr. Parker is a founding director of the Texas Jazz Educators Association and he now serves as the Executive Officer of TJEA. He is also the editor of the Texas All-State Jazz Etudes. He is a past president of the Texas Chapter of the International Association for Jazz Education and he is a charter member of the Jazz Educators Network.
Brent Phillips is Professor of Trombone at Baylor University.
Prior to his position at Baylor, Mr. Phillips was assistant principal trombone of “The President’s Own” US Marine Band in Washington DC and is currently principal trombone of the Abilene Philharmonic and the Waco Symphony Orchestra in Waco TX. He was the principal trombone of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra for 15 seasons while concurrently performing in the Marine Band.
Mr. Phillips has soloed with the “President’s Own” on thirty separate occasions and has been a featured soloist with the Harrisburg Symphony on five occasions. He continues to travel nationally and internationally as a featured soloist with orchestras.
In addition to performing as a soloist with the Marine Band, he has been invited to perform as a soloist at the 2005 and 2007 Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington DC, the 2013 International Trombone Festival in Columbus GA and has given recitals in Ostend Belgium, Fasano Italy, Panama City Panama and throughout the US in many of our nations prestigious universities and conservatories. Mr. Phillips recently performed a recital and was an invited clinician in August of 2014 at “Trombonanza!” - a weeklong internationally renowned trombone festival and workshop in Santa Fe Argentina.
As trombonist with the “President’s Own”, Mr. Phillips has gained extensive experience as a soloist. In the fall of 2000, Mr. Phillips was the soloist on the Marine Band’s fifty-two day national concert tour and has soloed numerous times with the Band at Wolf Trap Farm Park, Kennedy Center, and the National Mall. Mr. Phillips gave the world premiere of “Tarkus” by Scott McAllister, for trombone and orchestra with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in May of 2007 and was an invited soloist at the prestigious Eastern Trombone Workshop performing “Tarkus” with the US Army Band in 2008. Mr. Phillips premiered “Tarkus” in Brussels and Ostend Belgium with the Belgium Radio Orchestra in 2009. The work received rave reviews and was featured in a recent New York Times article on trombone soloists and commissions along with works by Scott McAllister, Christian Lindberg, Melinda Wagner and Christopher Rouse.
Mr. Phillips performs regularly with the Dallas Symphony and has toured with the DSO to the Netherlands, Germany and Vienna in 2012 and performed with the DSO in the Vail Valley Music Festival. He also performs regularly with the Houston Symphony and has recent performances with the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Houston Grand Opera and Ballet. Most recently, Mr. Phillips performed with the Houston Grand Opera on bass trumpet in the 2015 production of Wagner’s Die Valkure. Additionally he as performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Fairfax Symphony and the Washington Symphonic Brass.
Mr Phillips has released two solo CDs on the Potenza Music label titled "Stepping Stones for Trombone" Volumes 1 and 2. “Stepping Stones for Trombone” is now available at www.justforbrass.com He has also released and two chamber music CDs on the Albany Records label with Stentorian Consort. “Myths and Legends” features all premiere recordings by Stentorian Consort containing exclusive first recordings by Fisher Tull, Eric Ewazen, Charles Wourinen, Leslie Bassett and others. The Stentorian Consort’s second CD – “Diversions” is a highly acclaimed collaboration with Joseph Alessi (New York Philharmonic) and also features newly commissioned works for the trombone quartet and soloist. He can also be heard performing all of the trombone tracks on the Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” and the Animal Planet’s “O’Shea’s Big Adventure.”
Mr. Phillips has been a featured artist at the Alessi Seminars in 2005, 2007 and in Italy in 2010 and remains active as a soloist and clinician around the country. Most recently, Mr. Phillips was a semi-finalist for the assistant principal trombone position with the New York Philharmonic. During a relatively short full-time teaching tenure at Baylor, Mr. Phillips’ students have been selected as finalist and winners of national and international solo competitions, quartet competitions and are performing in full time professional orchestras or teaching at major universities.
Mr. Phillips founded the Mountain Light Music Festival in Pagosa Springs Colorado which involves fellowship of professional performers, artists, faculty and students in a high altitude wilderness setting. This festival is the culmination of strenuous physical activity, intensive musical study and pedagogical exploration. This intensive one week music seminar serves as a positive scholarly and creative endeavor with multiple faculty collaborating artistically, spiritually and academically.
Mr. Phillips grew up in Houston Texas and attended Westfield High School under Director of Bands, Philip Geiger. His primary teachers were members of the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera and included Jim Pedigo, David Waters and David Kirk. He also studied briefly with Alan Barnhill and John McCroskey of the Houston Symphony as well as Per Brevig of the New York Metropolitan Opera and John Kitzman of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Phillips received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree in trombone performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
Prior to his position at Baylor, Mr. Phillips was assistant principal trombone of “The President’s Own” US Marine Band in Washington DC and is currently principal trombone of the Abilene Philharmonic and the Waco Symphony Orchestra in Waco TX. He was the principal trombone of the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra for 15 seasons while concurrently performing in the Marine Band.
Mr. Phillips has soloed with the “President’s Own” on thirty separate occasions and has been a featured soloist with the Harrisburg Symphony on five occasions. He continues to travel nationally and internationally as a featured soloist with orchestras.
In addition to performing as a soloist with the Marine Band, he has been invited to perform as a soloist at the 2005 and 2007 Eastern Trombone Workshop in Washington DC, the 2013 International Trombone Festival in Columbus GA and has given recitals in Ostend Belgium, Fasano Italy, Panama City Panama and throughout the US in many of our nations prestigious universities and conservatories. Mr. Phillips recently performed a recital and was an invited clinician in August of 2014 at “Trombonanza!” - a weeklong internationally renowned trombone festival and workshop in Santa Fe Argentina.
As trombonist with the “President’s Own”, Mr. Phillips has gained extensive experience as a soloist. In the fall of 2000, Mr. Phillips was the soloist on the Marine Band’s fifty-two day national concert tour and has soloed numerous times with the Band at Wolf Trap Farm Park, Kennedy Center, and the National Mall. Mr. Phillips gave the world premiere of “Tarkus” by Scott McAllister, for trombone and orchestra with the Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra in May of 2007 and was an invited soloist at the prestigious Eastern Trombone Workshop performing “Tarkus” with the US Army Band in 2008. Mr. Phillips premiered “Tarkus” in Brussels and Ostend Belgium with the Belgium Radio Orchestra in 2009. The work received rave reviews and was featured in a recent New York Times article on trombone soloists and commissions along with works by Scott McAllister, Christian Lindberg, Melinda Wagner and Christopher Rouse.
Mr. Phillips performs regularly with the Dallas Symphony and has toured with the DSO to the Netherlands, Germany and Vienna in 2012 and performed with the DSO in the Vail Valley Music Festival. He also performs regularly with the Houston Symphony and has recent performances with the Buffalo Philharmonic and the Houston Grand Opera and Ballet. Most recently, Mr. Phillips performed with the Houston Grand Opera on bass trumpet in the 2015 production of Wagner’s Die Valkure. Additionally he as performed with the San Antonio Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Delaware Symphony, Maryland Symphony, Alexandria Symphony, Annapolis Symphony, Fairfax Symphony and the Washington Symphonic Brass.
Mr Phillips has released two solo CDs on the Potenza Music label titled "Stepping Stones for Trombone" Volumes 1 and 2. “Stepping Stones for Trombone” is now available at www.justforbrass.com He has also released and two chamber music CDs on the Albany Records label with Stentorian Consort. “Myths and Legends” features all premiere recordings by Stentorian Consort containing exclusive first recordings by Fisher Tull, Eric Ewazen, Charles Wourinen, Leslie Bassett and others. The Stentorian Consort’s second CD – “Diversions” is a highly acclaimed collaboration with Joseph Alessi (New York Philharmonic) and also features newly commissioned works for the trombone quartet and soloist. He can also be heard performing all of the trombone tracks on the Discovery Channel’s “Shark Week” and the Animal Planet’s “O’Shea’s Big Adventure.”
Mr. Phillips has been a featured artist at the Alessi Seminars in 2005, 2007 and in Italy in 2010 and remains active as a soloist and clinician around the country. Most recently, Mr. Phillips was a semi-finalist for the assistant principal trombone position with the New York Philharmonic. During a relatively short full-time teaching tenure at Baylor, Mr. Phillips’ students have been selected as finalist and winners of national and international solo competitions, quartet competitions and are performing in full time professional orchestras or teaching at major universities.
Mr. Phillips founded the Mountain Light Music Festival in Pagosa Springs Colorado which involves fellowship of professional performers, artists, faculty and students in a high altitude wilderness setting. This festival is the culmination of strenuous physical activity, intensive musical study and pedagogical exploration. This intensive one week music seminar serves as a positive scholarly and creative endeavor with multiple faculty collaborating artistically, spiritually and academically.
Mr. Phillips grew up in Houston Texas and attended Westfield High School under Director of Bands, Philip Geiger. His primary teachers were members of the Houston Symphony and the Houston Grand Opera and included Jim Pedigo, David Waters and David Kirk. He also studied briefly with Alan Barnhill and John McCroskey of the Houston Symphony as well as Per Brevig of the New York Metropolitan Opera and John Kitzman of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Phillips received both his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music degree in trombone performance from the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University.
Edward Taylor holds a Ph.D. in Music Theory and Composition from Rutgers University where he was a student of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Charles Wuorinen. Additionally, he received a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Studies from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he studied jazz drums with Keith Copeland and jazz composition with Kenny Barron and Mark Kirk.
Taylor has composed over 50 original jazz compositions ranging from small ensemble pieces to larger works for big band. Further, he has composed over 20 “classical” works in the progressive post-tonal language, ranging from solo pieces for instruments such as piano, cello, and flute, to works for chamber ensemble and orchestra. He has received performances from The New York New Music Ensemble, Helix!, Fred Sherry, Harvey Sollberger, and John McMurtery, among others. Taylor’s works have been programmed on concerts and festivals throughout the United States, and his Second Piano Sonata received its European premiere in March 2006, at the American Academy in Rome, by Ashlee Mack.
Taylor has performed with such artists as John Farnsworth, Joel Frahm, Michael Philip Mossman, Joel Perry, and Ed Fleischman. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including an appearance at Carnegie Hall with vocalist Jewel Crenshaw.
Taylor is currently on faculty at the Baylor University School of Music where he teaches Music Theory, Composition, and Jazz Drums. Previous teaching appointments include William Paterson University and Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey. Additionally, he is a co-founder and co-director of the Society for Chromatic Art, a New York-based new music ensemble.
Taylor has composed over 50 original jazz compositions ranging from small ensemble pieces to larger works for big band. Further, he has composed over 20 “classical” works in the progressive post-tonal language, ranging from solo pieces for instruments such as piano, cello, and flute, to works for chamber ensemble and orchestra. He has received performances from The New York New Music Ensemble, Helix!, Fred Sherry, Harvey Sollberger, and John McMurtery, among others. Taylor’s works have been programmed on concerts and festivals throughout the United States, and his Second Piano Sonata received its European premiere in March 2006, at the American Academy in Rome, by Ashlee Mack.
Taylor has performed with such artists as John Farnsworth, Joel Frahm, Michael Philip Mossman, Joel Perry, and Ed Fleischman. He has performed throughout the United States and Europe, including an appearance at Carnegie Hall with vocalist Jewel Crenshaw.
Taylor is currently on faculty at the Baylor University School of Music where he teaches Music Theory, Composition, and Jazz Drums. Previous teaching appointments include William Paterson University and Westminster Conservatory in Princeton, New Jersey. Additionally, he is a co-founder and co-director of the Society for Chromatic Art, a New York-based new music ensemble.
Chris Clark is a Dallas/Fort Worth-based composer, band leader, trumpeter, and clinician. Originally from Waco, TX, Chris stayed in town to earn a Music Education degree from Baylor University. After graduation, Chris moved to Chicago and earned a Master in Jazz Pedagogy degree from DePaul University.
As a writer, Chris' band and jazz compositions are being performed all over the United States. He owns his own publishing company, C3 Compositions, in which you can find numerous titles for Concert Band, Jazz Band, Flex ensembles, and orchestra. All of Chris' compositions can be found here on the website as well as JWPepper.
As a performer, Chris can be found performing in clubs, churches, and other venues in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as a crossover player; equally comfortable in jazz and classical/band ensembles. Chris and his family reside in the Dallas area where he is an Assistant Band Director at Rockwall High School.
As a writer, Chris' band and jazz compositions are being performed all over the United States. He owns his own publishing company, C3 Compositions, in which you can find numerous titles for Concert Band, Jazz Band, Flex ensembles, and orchestra. All of Chris' compositions can be found here on the website as well as JWPepper.
As a performer, Chris can be found performing in clubs, churches, and other venues in the Dallas/Fort Worth area as a crossover player; equally comfortable in jazz and classical/band ensembles. Chris and his family reside in the Dallas area where he is an Assistant Band Director at Rockwall High School.
In Partnership with Voice of Wilderness
The primary goal of Voice of Wilderness is to communicate the reality of Jesus Christ and the practical application of the teachings found in the books of the Bible. In a complex society such as ours, man has virtually ignored this vital part of an educational process. We use the wilderness setting as a tool to relate Biblical principles to the everyday needs of the individual. God used the wilderness to deal with His people; Moses, Elijah, David, John the Baptist, and Jesus were all led into the solitude of their natural environments to reflect and develop.
Where life is basic, man is more likely to realize his need for dependence on his Creator. Here, an individual can see God's creation and understand more of His power. Free from day to day distractions, one can clearly examine the life Christ claimed to give.
The wilderness is truly a voice that declares God's "invisible attributes, eternal power and divine nature." (Romans 1:20)
Where life is basic, man is more likely to realize his need for dependence on his Creator. Here, an individual can see God's creation and understand more of His power. Free from day to day distractions, one can clearly examine the life Christ claimed to give.
The wilderness is truly a voice that declares God's "invisible attributes, eternal power and divine nature." (Romans 1:20)
Founders, History, and Vision
Mission - An exclusive chamber music festival located in Pagosa Springs CO featuring musicians of the highest caliber. Based at the Mountain Light Lodge, this week long festival of chamber music seeks to inspire and engage audiences in Pagosa Springs CO. Students will discover their true musical identity and find purpose in their creative pursuits while working alongside world class faculty.
History:
This is the fifth year of the Mountain Light Music Festival. The festival was featured as a trombone summit in 2015 with students and faculty from SMU, Rice, University of Houston, Houston Grand Opera, Baylor, University of Texas El Paso, University of Alabama and more. We are excited to present the Mountain Light Festival Trombone Choir at Keyah Grande on Friday August 6th, 2021. We needed to stay home in 2020 but can't wait to be back in the mountains this August.
The Baylor Brass was in residency in 2017 and 2018 and performed concerts for the Cade Mountain Community at the Mountain Light Lodge and performed to a sold out audience at the Wyndham Resort, Pagosa Lakes Property Owners Association Club House and Community United Methodist Church. We are grateful to our sponsors: Pagosa Springs Sun, Choke Cherry Tree, Click Printing, Three Chicks and a Hippy, Voice of Wilderness, Bookends, Pagosa Springs Area Chamber, and Airport Self-Storage. We are looking for long-term underwriters to help this festival continue its growth and bring other instrumental genres to Pagosa.
Vision:
I sincerely believe that with your help, we can build a world class venue in Pagosa Springs and host a uniquely intimate and inspiring summer long music festival. Pagosa will be the summer home of world class faculty and students who will live here and perform in our homes, at the Mountain Light Lodge, Keyah Grande, the Springs, and ultimately on a newly built summer stage! Imagine sponsoring a string quartet or a jazz trio, or underwriting a symphony orchestra and top tier soloist, and being a part of this exciting startup here in Pagosa!
We believe in mentoring students and building community at Mountain Light Music. I have been fortunate to teach many talented young musicians who have gone on to great success. MLMF is unique because our mission is one of spiritual value. Students discover how to place their trust in what is eternal, rather than a position or a title. We play music because we are inspired - not because we want attention. Help me share these truths about performance, art, community, and the gift of music with these wonderful students.
Founder, Director
This is the fifth year of the Mountain Light Music Festival. The festival was featured as a trombone summit in 2015 with students and faculty from SMU, Rice, University of Houston, Houston Grand Opera, Baylor, University of Texas El Paso, University of Alabama and more. We are excited to present the Mountain Light Festival Trombone Choir at Keyah Grande on Friday August 6th, 2021. We needed to stay home in 2020 but can't wait to be back in the mountains this August.
The Baylor Brass was in residency in 2017 and 2018 and performed concerts for the Cade Mountain Community at the Mountain Light Lodge and performed to a sold out audience at the Wyndham Resort, Pagosa Lakes Property Owners Association Club House and Community United Methodist Church. We are grateful to our sponsors: Pagosa Springs Sun, Choke Cherry Tree, Click Printing, Three Chicks and a Hippy, Voice of Wilderness, Bookends, Pagosa Springs Area Chamber, and Airport Self-Storage. We are looking for long-term underwriters to help this festival continue its growth and bring other instrumental genres to Pagosa.
Vision:
I sincerely believe that with your help, we can build a world class venue in Pagosa Springs and host a uniquely intimate and inspiring summer long music festival. Pagosa will be the summer home of world class faculty and students who will live here and perform in our homes, at the Mountain Light Lodge, Keyah Grande, the Springs, and ultimately on a newly built summer stage! Imagine sponsoring a string quartet or a jazz trio, or underwriting a symphony orchestra and top tier soloist, and being a part of this exciting startup here in Pagosa!
We believe in mentoring students and building community at Mountain Light Music. I have been fortunate to teach many talented young musicians who have gone on to great success. MLMF is unique because our mission is one of spiritual value. Students discover how to place their trust in what is eternal, rather than a position or a title. We play music because we are inspired - not because we want attention. Help me share these truths about performance, art, community, and the gift of music with these wonderful students.
Founder, Director
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Over 30 years ago, Chet Russell had the vision of adding a music component to Voice of Wilderness programing. Raised by a mother who studied as a concert pianist, Chet was keenly aware of the power of music to the soul.
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Brent Phillips has been on the faculty at Baylor since 2004 and prior to that was a soloist and trombonist with the "President's Own" US Marine Band - Washington DC. As a young boy, he began backpacking and rock climbing as a participant on VOW trips with Chet.
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