Barbara Hull teaching trumpet at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas School of Music

Dr. Barbara Hull has been appointed Assistant Professor-in-Residence in Studio Trumpet at the UNLV School of Music. 

She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance and Literature from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with James Thompson and was Assistant Conductor of the Eastman Brass Guild. Hull is co-principal trumpet with the San Francisco Wind Ensemble and principal trumpet with Ensemble Monterey. She has performed with the Modesto Symphony, Fremont Symphony and the Grass Valley Music Festival. Barbara’s work has also included masterclasses with Barbara Butler, Vincent Cichowicz , Allen Vizzutti, Mark Gould and Niklas Eklund.

Hull earned her Masters Degree at Eastman in the studio of Charles Geyer. She is a recipient of the Eastman Performer's Certificate, and, as winner of Eastman's Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Concerto Competition, performed as soloist with the Eastman Wind Ensemble under Donald Hunsberger. Barbara also served as principal trumpet of the Eastman Wind Ensemble during collaboration between the EWE and the Canadian Brass. The CD for that project, Manhattan Music, was released in 2008.

Before joining the faculty at UNLV she lived in Rochester, NY where she taught applied trumpet and brass at Nazareth College and was a member of Symphoria (formerly the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra).

Hull was principal trumpet with the Albany Symphony Orchestra from 1995-1998, recording with the orchestra under the Decca and Albany Records labels. She played with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra from 2000-2003. While living in Albuquerque, she also performed regularly with the New Mexico Brass Quintet, the New Mexico Symphony Brass Quintet, the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, and Opera Southwest. She has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra.

Source: Dr. Barbara Hull, assistant professor-in-residence in studio trumpet, University of Nevada Las Vegas