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This concert demonstrates some of the most challenging and romantic music from the trumpet repertoire including the famous cornet solo, The Carnival of Venice.  Works such as the Goedicke and Bohme concertos for trumpet are wonderful pieces of music that are rarely performed.  The acrobatic and virtuosic nature of Vizzutti and Arban partnered with the powerful romanticism of the concertos and songs by Barber, Quilter and Vaughan Williams adapted for trumpet, this program is sure to have something for everyone.

Dr. Josh Davies is a two-time Grammy nominated performer that enjoys a diverse career as a versatile performer and educator. He has performed extensively throughout the United States, Mexico, Canada and Europe in places such as Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, the Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas and the Jubilee Auditoriums in Calgary and Edmonton.  He has shared the stage with such artists as Byron Stripling, Phil Smith, Ellis Marsalis, Dick Oatts, Rob Smith, Kenny Garrett, Dewie Redman, Chris Murrell, and Fred Wesley, Fernando de la Mora, José Carreras, The Three Mexican Tenors, Alexander Markov, Raúl Di Blasio, Jens Lindemann, Alastair Kay, and Mark Gould to name a few. 

Josh can be heard on over 20 CD's with various labels in jazz, classical, alternative, rock, latin, tejano, and funk styles.

Josh regularly performs with symphony orchestras of Austin, Abilene, Brazos Valley, Calgary, Kamloops, Monterrey, Monterrey Chamber, Red Deer, Regina, San Antonio Chamber, Temple, and Victoria, as well as The Austin Chamber Ensemble The Austin Chamber Winds, The Austin Lyric Opera and the Monterrey Metropolitan Opera Company.

As an educator, Dr. Davies is a professor at the University of Lethbridge, where he teaches studio trumpet, jazz history and is the director of the U of L Jazz Ensemble.  Previous university teaching positions include Temple College and The University of Texas at Austin, Concordia University-Texas and Texas State University.  He regularly presents master classes and performances at universities and festivals throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. 

Dr. Davies holds a Doctoral of Musical Arts and a Master of Music degree from The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelors of Music degree from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.