Dr. Paul Hunt
Lead Advisor, Trombone
Brass Chamber Music

McCain Auditorium 124
(785) 532-3813
phunt@ksu.edu

Paul Hunt joined the faculty of Kansas State University in summer of 1998 as Department Head and Professor of Music. Prior to his appointment at KSU he served for five years as Chair of the Department of Music Performance Studies at the College of Musical Arts, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH. He was Professor of Trombone at the College of Musical Arts from 1983-1998. He also served from 1992-1993 as an Administrative Assistant to the Director of the School of Music at the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO and was Instructor of Trombone at Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, from 1982-83. Hunt also taught choral and instrumental music and drama at Kent Denver Country Day School (Grades 7-12), in Englewood, CO.

Hunt is Past President of the International Trombone Association. He was a post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Northern Colorado in the 1992-1993 academic year. At that time he focused intensive studies in trombone pedagogy and jazz with Buddy Baker. Hunt earned a D.M.A. in Performance and Literature - Trombone and the Performer’s Certificate in 1989 from the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester. His primary trombone studies were with John Marcellus. In 1980 he earned a master’s degree in trombone performance at Youngstown State University where he studied trombone with Vern Kagarice; and in 1978 he earned a B.M. in Trombone Performance and a B.M.E., with an emphasis in Instrumental Music at the University of Northern Colorado. His primary trombone studies were with Buddy Baker and Jack Robinson.

Paul Hunt has appeared as a trombone soloist and clinician at numerous trombone workshops and festivals. In 1998 he performed as faculty and recitalist for the International Trombone Festival, sponsored by the International Trombone Association and the University of Colorado - Boulder; he appeared as soloist with Wheaton Summer Band, Wheaton, Illinois, and as clinician and soloist at the Birmingham Conservatory of Music, Birmingham, England, and for the British Trombone Society Trombone Festival, hosted by the Guild Hall Conservatory in London. He is an Educational Specialist and Clinician for Benge Trombones, United Musical Instruments Company. He twice served as Director of the Workshop Trombones at the International Trombone Workshop (1991 and 1993). He gave solo performances at the Society of Composers, International regional conference, Carbondale, IL; at the first Southwest Contemporary Music Festival, San Marcos, TX; as part of the International Computer Music Conference, Columbus, OH; and at the MidWest Trombone Workshop in DeKalb, IL. He was featured soloist and clinician with the U.S. Navy Band for the Eastern Trombone Workshop, Washington, DC.

He made his New York solo debut in 1989 in the Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall with the New Music Virtuosi of Bowling Green. For fifteen years he was a member of the Bowling Green Brass Quintet and was active as a free-lance trombonist in the Toledo, Ohio, area. From 1993-1998 he performed as a member of the BGSU Faculty Jazz Sextet. His solo and ensemble appearances included performances at the annual Bowling Green New Music and Art Festivals, performing as a member of the Great Lakes Brass Quintet of the Toledo Symphony; as extra with the Toledo Symphony; and as a member of the Toledo Concert Band and the Toledo Jazz Orchestra.





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