CT Trumpet Lessons, Performing Artist, Badollet Ensemble: 5/23/10

Friday, May 28, 2010

Growing Studio

My home studio is growing as more students and parents are willing to travel great distances to take lessons with me. Summer is the perfect time to get into my schedule, try out my teaching techniques, and get a spot secured for the fall.

Resume

Graduate Diploma with Distinction in Performance from the New England Conservatory of Music

Tanglewood Music Fellowship Andre Come Memorial Scholarship
Doctorate in Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy work at the University of Southern Mississippi (degree not completed)
Masters in Performance Work at the University of Louisville
Bachelors of Music Education from the University of Evansville

Founder and Director of the Badollet Ensemble, Lead Trumpet Westport Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Godspeed Opera House, Principal Trumpet Asylum Hill Orchestra, Lead Trumpet at Curtain Call Theatre, Principal Trumpet with the 75th Anniversary Tour of Porgy & Bess and freelancer throughout the New England Area. I have performed with the Boston Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, former Principal Trumpet with the Key West Symphony, Palm Beach Opera, Bolshoi and Royal Ballet, New World Symphony, Louisville Orchestra, Portland Symphony, Evansville Philharmonic, and Owensboro Symphony.

I maintain a private studio at my home in New Haven, very convenient off of Rt. 95/91 merge with plenty of on street free parking.

Testimonials

Daniel has taught private trumpet lessons to my son over the past year. He is one of the most gifted communicators and teachers I have ever had the pleasure of witnessing. He is a superb technician and has the ability to share his knowledge and expertise with his students in very creative and concrete ways. Not only does he bring out the best possible sound quality in his students, he is boundlessly enthusiastic and encouraging in the process, and just a really terrific person! I would recommend him very highly to anyone looking for an instructor or performer!

Janet Lorusso, President, Acton/Boxbourgh Friends of Music

I'm something of a "come-back" player who hopes to play in symphony orchestras, brass ensembles, and the like. I've got a way to go, but over the past year, Dan Duncan has been a big help. Dan explains problems I'm having, and offers tools to solve them. Other teachers I've had often say "just play", without explaining how to make the sound better. Dan does better, and shows how control of the tongue, and of air pressure and volume yield better and more musical sound. He imaginatively draws concepts from his many distinguished teachers, and modifies them to be helpful to me. He supports this with carefully selected exercises and etudes, from simple to quite advanced. Although Dan has lesson plans carefully designed, he adjusts them to help me with pieces I must play in ensembles, or to help with problems I've encountered. I recommend Dan highly, especially for students like me, who have spent years learning bad trumpet habits. A beginning student would be privileged to start out with Dan: good habits would be built from the start, and progress would be rapid.

Michael Klass
Adult Student

I have had a chance to work with a few trumpet teachers, and Dan is the best of the bunch! He has a very clear way of describing what needs to be done, and is able to hear where my playing goes wrong, and give correction. While very persistent, he is also very patient, knowing that progress on the trumpet takes time, practice, and relentless work on the part of both the student and teacher.

Barbara Chickosky
Adult Student

My Equipment

1991 Bach 37 Bb Trumpet with Enhanced Resonance from Osmun Music and an opened venturi
1995 Bach C Trumpet 229 Bell, Jim Becker Customized Leadpipe P109.
1995 Schlike P5-4 Valve Alignment and 1st/3rd triggers by Jim Becker, Osmun P108 A pipe
ACB (Austin Custom Brass) Sheppard's Crook Cornet
ACB Flugelhorn Red Brass Bell

Mouthpieces: ACB 5B with Warburton 7 Backbore and 24 throat

ACB 5DE zirconia finish

ACB 7E with outer rim trimmed for better articulation

Can't say enough great things about Trent Austin mouthpieces!!!!

Stork 5P Cornet Shank and ACB 5P for Piccolo
Yamaha Cornet Short Shank 16E and Denis Wick 4B

CT Trumpet Lessons, Performing Artist, Badollet Ensemble

Daniel Louis Duncan, Trumpet

Friday, May 28, 2010

Growing Studio

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Porgy & Bess Website