ITG 99 Host, Michael Davison

Michael Davison leads a multifaceted life of performing and teaching. After receiving degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he has performed and taught all over the world. As a performer, he has given both jazz and classical recitals in many parts of the U.S., France, the Netherlands, Spain, and South Africa. He has also performed with many symphony orchestras and chamber groups, including the Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, the Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the Whitewater and Wisconsin Brass Quintets. He has performed for Pope John Paul II as well as George Leonard Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury. Davison is also active in the jazz and commercial genre, where he has performed with Michael Brecker, Curtis Fuller, Aretha Franklin, The Temptations and The Four Tops. He has recorded four jazz

CDs and one classical CD, Fenster, which received rave reviews from the International Trumpet Guild Journal. He holds a standing contract with Advance Music Company to publish at least two jazz combo charts per year; to date 10 have been published. As a transcriber, Dr. Davison has published a book with Hal Leonard Publishing Company on the transcriptions of Randy Brecker.

As a teacher, Davison began the jazz program at the University of Richmond in 1986; the UR Jazz Ensemble was the featured jazz group at the Virginia Music Educators Conference at The Homestead in 1995. He has taught at the international jazz school AIMRA, in Lyon, France, and has recently led a group of jazz educators to South Africa for a two-week teaching and performing tour. For the last eight years, he has performed at every ITG Conference, and chaired the jazz improvisation contest three times. Since 1987, Davison has been on the trumpet faculty at the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan. Currently, Dr. Davison has just published a series of articles in Fanfare on the psychology of performance, entitled, The Life and Times of John Czlabotnik: A Musical Journey. A clinician for the Selmer/Bach Company, he is in demand through-out the country as a classical and jazz teacher and performer. Dr. Davison is also sought after as a performer on the Akai Electronic Valve Instrument.