Fall Job Appoinments	Oct 25 99

Bottom to Campbellsville University Stephen Bottom  Stephen K. Bottom has been appointed professor of trumpet at Campbellsville University in Kentucky. He earned a B.M. in Trumpet from the University of Kentucky, where he was a student of Vince DiMartino. At the University of Louisville, he earned an M.M. in Trumpet and Jazz Studies as a trumpet student of Michael Tunnell and a jazz student of Jamey Aebersold and John LaBarbera. Known for his versatility in all musical styles, Bottom has won several national and international classical trumpet competitions and has been featured as a soloist on National Public Radio’s Performance Today! with Saxton’s Cornet Band. As a jazz artist, he has played lead trumpet in the big bands of Benny Goodman, Diane Schuur, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, and others. He shares lead and solo trumpet duties with Vince DiMartino in the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra, an ensemble comprised of Kentucky collegiate faculty and professional musicians. Bottom has recorded several albums with Saxton’s Cornet Band, the Miles Osland Big Band, and the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra. He is active as an artist clinician for United Musical Instruments and performs exclusively on Stomvi and King trumpets, cornets, and flugelhorns. Source: Rolf M. Holly, correspondent Holly to University of Kentucky Rolf Holly Rolf M. Holly has begun his first year as professor of trumpet at the University of Kentucky (UK). He currently performs with the UK faculty brass quintet and the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra. Holly is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and Cambridge College of Boston, and he has been an active performer with Dallas Brass, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Atlantic Brass, Epic Brass, and Lincoln Center Chamber Tours. He has performed in 48 states, 9 European countries, and has served as principal trumpet of the Philharmonic of Bajio, Symphony of Guanajuato, and Opera Orchestra of Sinaloa in Mexico. He served as principal trumpet of the New England Philharmonia and performed for several years with the Brooklyn Heights Symphony and Bach Society Orchestra of Boston. Holly has recorded for Ars Nova Digital, New World Records, DMI, World Records/A&M, Walrus Publications, and Seabreeze Jazz. He is an artist clinician for United Musical Instruments and performs exclusively on Benge and King trumpets, cornets, and flugelhorns. Source: Stephen K. Bottom, correspondent Hood to University of Denver Alan Hood was appointed instructor of trumpet at the University of Denver’s Lamont School of Music. Hood joins trumpeter and school director F. Joseph Docksey in the Aries Brass Quintet, artists-in-residence at Lamont. He will also perform with The Climb, the University’s jazz combo-in-residence, and a 12-member symphonic brass ensemble, the Denver Brass. Hood comes to Denver from the faculty of the University of Miami where he served as jazz trumpet instructor. Hood earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Kentucky, a master’s degree from Northern Illinois University, and is a doctoral candidate in jazz performance at the University of Miami. His teachers have included Vince DiMartino, Ron Modell, Ray Crisara, Gil Johnson, and Howard Rowe. In 1998, he toured the U.S. and Europe with the Phil Collins Big Band Source: Alan J. Hood Justus to University of South Alabama Tim Justus was appointed to the music faculty at the University of South Alabama in Mobile, where he teaches trumpet and directs the trumpet and jazz ensembles. He will soon be performing as co-principal trumpet of the Mobile Symphony Orchestra. He previously taught at North Dakota State University from 1995-1999, was associate principal trumpet of the Fargo-Moorhead Symphony Orchestra, and performed with the Jazz Arts Group of Fargo-Moorhead. Justus earned degrees from Northeast Louisiana University and Louisiana State University and has been a member of the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra. Source: Michael Caldwell Sources: as noted

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