Stephen Dunn  

 

Associate Professor of Trumpet
Jazz Band II
Stephen.Dunn@nau.edu
928-523-3414
Building 37, Room 142
Trumpet Studio
DMA, Arizona State University
MM, Northwestern University
BM Education University of North Texas

Stephen Dunn is assistant professor of trumpet at Northern Arizona University, where he joined the faculty in 2005. In addition to teaching trumpet, he directs Jazz Ensemble II and performs with the Elden Brass Quintet. Previous to his appointment at Northern Arizona University, Mr. Dunn served on the faculties of University of Oregon, Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver and Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO.

Mr. Dunn is an active performer in the Phoenix and Flagstaff areas and performs with the Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra in summers and in the Dunn/Pennington trumpet and percussion duo. He is the former principal trumpet of the Oregon Festival of American Music Orchestra and a former member of the Oregon Brass Quintet, Aries Brass Quintet, the Denver Brass and the Ballet West Orchestra.

Dunn has performed with numerous professional orchestras, including the Eugene, Utah and Phoenix symphony orchestras, and has traveled as a soloist throughout the U.S. and in Germany. Dunn can be heard on a recent recording of trumpet and percussion works entitled “Old News” on the Equilibrium label. He has also recorded with the Denver Brass, Oregon Brass Quintet, Music in the Mountains Festival Orchestra, and for several motion picture soundtracks.

He has engaged in additional musical study at the Yale Summer School of Music and the Freiburg Music Hochschule in Freiburg, Germany.