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JoeyPERo
Joey Pero of New York City grew up in a small suburb between Rochester and Buffalo, New York.
Although music was never a career for either parent, it was always prevalent in Joey Pero’s house
growing up. They played records of Maynard Ferguson, Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York
Philharmonic, Disney, and Frank Zappa. Joey started to play trumpet at about 13 years old through
drum corps. He later became involved with the Empire Statesmen drum and bugle corps from
Rochester, New York. The director, Vince Bruni, took Joey in as his own and taught him valuable
lessons stemming from entertainment to loyalty and integrity. The playing along with Maynard
Ferguson’s screaming obbligato melodies gave Joey a rush and he found sanctity in this ritual.
After high school, Pero moved to New York to pursue his studies at the Juilliard School of Music. There he studied with Raymond Mase and Mark
Gould; each possessing a gift for teaching and profound insight into the fundamentals of artistry, trumpet pedagogy and beyond. He is privileged
to consider Wynton Marsalis his mentor. Marsalis later gifted him the brush gold “Raja” C trumpet he used on many of the tracks on “Resonance.”
JeANNePoCiUS
Jeanne Pocius, trumpet teacher/performer and “chopdoc”, currently lives and works in Port-au-
Prince, Haïti, where she serves as trumpet professor for several schools and runs the non-profit,
charitable corporation INSTRUMENTAL CHANGE, INC (ICInc) which funds the building, equipping
and staffing of music-centric schools in Haïti.
Jeanne‘s reputation as a chopdoc (specialist in assisting brass players with embouchure issues)
has grown from her willingness and availability to assist brass players across the globe, and
began to expand when she became a member of TPIN (Trumpet Players‘ International Network),
an internet list-serv for trumpet players established by Michael Anderson. This led to her writing
and publishing the book, „Trumpeting By Nature“ (Outskirts Press, 2007) about efficiency in trumpet playing. Jeanne will present the concepts of
Trumpeting By Nature and introduce her „CHOPCHECKtm“ system of warmup/maintenance, as well as discuss her experiences as a trumpeterhumanitarian
in Haiti.
Jeanne‘s major teachers included William Vacchiano, Melvyn Broiles, Daniel Patrylak, Robert Lemons and Jerome Callet.
fredPowELL
Beginning an instrument repair apprenticeship while still pursuing his undergraduate performance degree, Fred
Powell has enjoyed multiple roles in music. He holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in trumpet performance
from Bob Jones University and The Florida State University, respectively.
As a performer he maintains an active freelance career and tours regularly as a member of the Artisans in Brass
quintet. He recently completed his sixth year with the Boston Brass Christmas All-Star Big Band, and he plays in
the Chicago area with such notables as the Rob Parton Big Band, Tom Matta and others, as well as in Northwest
Indiana with the South Bend Symphony, Quintessence Brass, VibeNation, and the Tom Milo Big Band. He has
performed in the past with the Savannah Symphony, Jacksonville Symphony, Florida Orchestra, Florida Symphony,
the Brevard Orchestra, the Golden State Brass Band, Advocate Brass Band, Indianapolis Symphonic Band,
numerous Broadway musicals, and was featured soloist with the Elkhart Municipal Band on their sister-city tour
of England.
As co-founder of the National Trumpet Competition near Washington, DC, Powell now serves as Associate Director
and as a member of the NTC Executive Board. He remains an active clinician and presenter at trumpet festivals,
university programs and music education events. After some eighteen years in the corporate music industry working in the areas of instrument
design, product management, artist relations and promotion, Fred is now the owner and president of Powell Trumpets & TrumpeTech, Inc. where he
specializes in the design and hand-building of custom trumpets.
MArcUSPRiNTUP
Marcus Printup was born and raised in Conyers, Georgia. While attending the University of North Florida on a
music scholarship, he won the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Trumpet Competition. In 1991, Mr. Printup‘s
life changed drastically when he met his mentor to this day, the great pianist Marcus Roberts. Mr. Roberts
introduced him to Wynton Marsalis, which led to his induction into the Jazz @ Lincoln Center Orchestra
in 1993. Mr. Printup has performed and/or recorded with Betty Carter, Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Cyrus
Chestnut, Wycliffe Gordon, Marcus Roberts among many others. Mr. Printup has several records as a leader,
Song for the Beautiful Woman, Unveiled, Hub Songs, Nocturnal Traces, The New Boogaloo, Peace In The
Abstract, Bird of Paradise, London Lullaby, Ballads All Night and his latest, A Time for Love.
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