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Mark Boren is Coordinator of Brass Studies at Minot State University where he teaches studio Trumpet and Horn. In
addition to studio high brass, he teaches Brass Ensemble, Beaver Athletic Band, Music Fundamentals, and assists with
the Pride of Minot State University Marching Band. Mr. Boren has performed internationally in Australia, South Korea,
Thailand, Canada, and in the United States on live radio,
music conventions, recitals, clinics, educational programs, outreach concerts. He is a founding member of the Orenunn
Trio and has held positions with the Kansas Brass Quintet (the faculty quintet in residence at the University of Kansas),
the Red Lodge Music Festival Faculty Brass Quintet, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln Faculty Brass Quintet, and
the Fountain City Brass Band. Mr. Boren has also performed with the Kansas City Symphony, the Wichita Symphony, the
St. Joseph Symphony, the Independence Symphony, the Topeka Symphony, Minot Symphony, and the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra. He has performed as
a featured soloist with the Lawrence Chamber Orchestra, the International Music Camp Faculty Band, the University of Kansas Instrumental Ensembles,
and in solo recitals.
In addition to his current position at Minot State University, Mr. Boren has taught at the University of Kansas, University of Nebraska at Lincoln, the
Midwestern Music Camp, the Red Lodge Music Festival, and is currently on faculty at the International Music Camp in North Dakota. He has also presented
at the North Dakota Music Educators Association Conference, Texas Music Educators Association Conference, and at the Ohio Music Educators Association
Conference.
A published author as well, Mr. Boren’s first book, Breathing for Performance, was released in 2005 through PowerLung Publishing along with the
companion DVD. His first article, “Mind over Matter/Matter of Mind,” was published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal in October 2004 (Vol. 29, No.1,
Pg. 65). He received his Bachelor of Music degree from Wichita State University, and his Master of Music degree from DePaul University.
JoebURGSTALLER
JOE BURGSTALLER has performed and taught in 48 states, 21 countries and hundreds of cities throughout the Americas,
Europe and Asia, has performed and taught at over 70 universities, conservatories and colleges around the world, made
numerable television and radio appearances, performed with many orchestras and has an extensive discography. Joe
tours as a soloist in recital and with orchestra, with his breakout jazz crossover group BurgstallerMartignon4, and as a
clinician and teacher, traveling the world hundreds of days every year. He is former member of Canadian Brass (7 1/2
years) and Meridian Arts Ensemble (7 years), as well as several other contemporary music groups, and was one of the
all-time most popular soloists at Columbia Artist’s Community Concerts. Joe teaches trumpet and chamber music at
Peabody Institute (Distinguished Faculty), teaches every summer at the Music Academy of the West, and is in his second
decade as a Yamaha Performing Artist.
The BM4 (BurgstallerMartignon4) vaulted into the top 50 US Jazz-Radio Charts in the Spring of 2009 starting with the
very first week of their first release, “Mozart’s Blue Dreams & Other Crossover Fantasies” (Summit Records).. Their music
combines Jazz and Classical into an organic hybrid that has simultaneously ignited the excitement of both Classical and Jazz fans alike. Joining Joe are
All-Stars Hector Martignon (Pianist- Grammy and Oscar Nominated, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto), Hans Glawischnig (Bass - Grammy Nominated,
Chick Corea, David Sanchez) and John Ferrari (Percussion - Naumburg Award Winner, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Yo-Yo Ma). In an industry
leading move, Yamaha Corporation of America debuted Joe’s inventive music videos as part of the CD release. Critics are raving: “Hip and approachable...
Majestically sublime beauty...Ethereal moments of true beauty and genius” says AllAboutJazz.com. “Stunning... Mozart surely would consider this hip if he
revisited the planet to jam with them” says Jazz Notes.
doUGCARLSEN
Since joining the Minnesota Orchestra as associate principal trumpet in 1999, Douglas C. Carlsen has been featured in Sommerfest
chamber performances of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, Wilbye’s Three Madrigals for Trumpets and a brass sextet by Boehme, as well
as in other concerts. In October 2008 he was soloist in performances of Copland’s Quiet City under the direction of Sarah Hicks.
Carlsen, who previously held the principal trumpet post with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra, has also performed with the
Phoenix, Tucson and Santa Fe Symphonies as well as the Summit Brass, Banff Opera Orchestra, Albuquerque Chamber Orchestra
and National Repertory Orchestra. He is a committed chamber musician and has participated in music festivals throughout
Europe, Canada and the United States.
A native of Nebraska, Carlsen learned music from both of his parents and later studied with Steve Ericksen and Craig Bircher. He
attended Arizona State University, where he was a student of David Hickman and Anthony Plog. Carlsen has recorded Antonio Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two
Trumpets with David Hickman on the Summit Records label.