FEATURED and Upcoming Events/Performances
Guest Artist Performance - “Variations on Barnacle Bill, the Sailor” w/Asheville High School Wind Symphony - October 2025
“Singing Through Your Fundamentals; Connecting the Voice to the Trombone” - Peer-reviewed presentation for 2025 International Trombone Festival - Western University - London, Ontario, Canada - July 2025
Faculty Solo Recital w/Dr . Catherine Garner, piano - Appalachian State University - Program featured music by F. Strauss, Cait Nishimura, Megumi Kanda, Paul HIndemith, John Stevens, Jim Hopson - March 2025
Principal Trombone - Symphony of the Mountains - Ravel “Bolero” & “La Valse”; Gershwin “An American in Paris” - February 2025
2nd Trombone - Symphony of the Mountains - An Evening with the Temptations - November 2024
Collaborative Performance with ASU Marching Mountaineers (postponed - Hurricane Helene) - ASU Faculty Brass Quintet Kidd Brewer Stadium - Boone, NC - October 2024
Featured Faculty Chamber Music Concert - ASU Faculty Brass Quintet Boone, NC - September 2024
Substitute Bass Trombone - Western Piedmont Symphony - The Music of John Williams – Lenoir, NC - September 2024
Symphony of the Mountains Summer Tour – NC, TN, VA - July 2024
Solo performance – Paul Hindemith Sonata for Trombone - Cannon Music Camp - Faculty Recital - June 2024
Substitute Principal Trombone - Western Piedmont Symphony - An Evening with Natalie Merchant (An Appalachian Summer Festival) – Boone, NC - June 2024
International Trombone Festival – Fort Worth, Texas The Four Horsemen Trombone Quartet - IInvited recital performance @ 2024 ITF at Texas Christian University. Other group members include Dr . Justin Isenhour, Winthrop University; Dr . Jeremy Marks, UNC-Charlotte; Mr . Thomas Burge, Charlotte Symphony Orchestra - May 2024
North Carolina Brass Band Performance at Elon University, Elon, NC - June 2024
Substitute Principal Trombone - Western Piedmont Symphony - Ferde Grofe “Grand Canyon Suite” – Hickory, NC - May 2024
Western Piedmont Symphony - Sports and Music Concert - Hickory, NC - April 2024
North Carolina Trombone Festival – Boone, NC - We hosted the 2024 NCTF at App State in April 2024; ASU Trombone Choir performed a featured concert. - April 2024
“Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” by Jeff Cortazzo - Ohio Trombone Quartet w/Cameron University Concert Band/77th Army Band (Oklahoma) Performance of commissioned work for trombone quartet w/wind band - March 2024
Featured Soloist on “Bolivar” by Eric Cook w/Cameron University Concert Band/77th Army Band (Oklahoma) Lawton, OK - March 2024
Performance as part of ASU Symphony Band - ASU Brass Area Faculty Boone, NC - February 2024
Performance on Dr . Sam Ambrose recital - ASU Faculty Brass Quintet Boone, NC - February 2024
Symphony of the Mountains Side by Side w/Youth Orchestra – Kingsport, TN - January 2024
Cantata performance - Grace Lutheran Church December 2023 - Boone, NC
Holiday Scholarship Concert @ ASU - Performance by Appalachian Trombone Choir - Arrangements by Elkjer and Balleza - December 2023
Lovefeast service - First Presbyterian Church Boone, NC - December 2023
Featured Faculty Chamber Music Concert - ASU Faculty Brass Quintet Boone, NC - November 2023
Symphony of the Mountains Schubert Unifinished Symphony – Kingsport, TN, Bristol, VA - October 2023
Offstage Trombone - Western Piedmont Symphony “Pines of Rome” – Hickory, NC October 2023. Offstage brass for this performance was all App State HSoM students and faculty, as a collaboration between WPS and the HSoM.
Symphony of the Mountains Fall Tour with Roy Cornelius Smith – Kingsport, TN, Big Stone Gap, VA - October 2023
Trombone - Jack Wilkins’ Blue and Green Project Jazz performance in Schaefer Center – Boone, NC - September 2023
Bass Trombone - Western Piedmont Symphony, Disney in Concert – Lenoir, NC - September 2023
Performance to open Research and Creative Activity event at ASU - ASU Faculty Brass Quintet Boone, NC - August 2023
Principal Trombone - Symphony of the Mountains Summer Tour with Kruger Brothers – Kingsport, TN, Blowing Rock, NC, Wise, VA - July 2023
Featured Soloist - Performance during services at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church Winston-Salem, NC – Robert Matthews, director of music - July 2023
“Bluegrass and Brass” - King Street Brass - Blowing Rock, NC July 4, 2015-19, 2022-24
North Carolina Brass Band Performance in Winston -Salem, NC – “SECCA Summer series” July 2023
North Carolina Brass Band Performance in Greensboro, NC – “Eastern Music Festival concert” - July 2023
Featured Soloist - Performance of Steven Verhelst “Hymn for Planet Earth” (bass trombone w/band) with Davie County High School Band; Mocksville, NC – Matthew Brusseau, conductor - May 2023
Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra - Offstage Trombone - “Belshazzar’s Feast” by Willam Walton - Winston-Salem, NC May 2023
Symphony of the Mountains - Brahms Symphony #1 – Kingsport, TN April 2023
Substitute Principal Trombone - Western Piedmont Symphony - Mahler’s 5th Symphony – Hickory, NC March 2023
Winston-Salem Symphony Orchestra - Pines of Rome - Respighi – Winston-Salem, NC February 2023
Solo performance w/Chamber Ensemble - Trombone Concertino – Jason Wise - A premiere of brand new work by Senior Theory/Composition major Jason Wise - HSoM Endowed Scholarship Recital - February 9, 2023.
Recording Release – “Mountain Ascent” - Carolina Trombone Project Recording project completed in May 2022. Album released in early 2023 on Albany Records.
Appalachian Trombone Choir - student performance for 2023 NC Trombone Festival @ UNC-Charlotte ; concert included works by Vaclav Nelhybel, Frank Gulino, Enrique Crespo, David Holsinger, Christopher Sharpe, and David Wilborn. - January 2023
North Carolina Brass Band Performance in Pinehurst, NC – “Our State Festival” January 2023
Symphony of the Mountains Holiday concerts – Kingsport, TN December 2022
Faculty Solo Recital w/Dr . Catherine Garner, piano - Appalachian State University - Featuring music of Saint-Saëns, Korngold, Prokoviev, Kevin Day, Lauren Bernofsky, Zackery Wilson - November 2022
Western Piedmont Symphony (Principal Trombone) - Young People’s Concert – Boone, NC November 2022
Symphony of the Mountains - Broadway Revue – Kingsport, TN November 2022
Symphony of the Mountains - Bela Fleck – Juno Concerto, Copland – Appalachian Spring – Kingsport, TN September 2022
2nd Trombone - North Carolina Brass Band Performances in Winston Salem and Greensboro, NC – September 2022 - “Legends and Heroes”
International Trombone Festival – Conway, Arkansas - Soloist on “Artist Showcase” recital series; Zackary Wilson’s “TuBit” (bass trombone/fixed media) - July 2022
International Trombone Festival – Conway, Arkansas - Recital w/ Carolina Trombone Project - July 2022
International Trombone Festival – Conway, Arkansas - member of William F. Cramer Memorial Choir - July 2022
HSoM Faculty Chamber Orchestra Performance – An Appalachian Summer Festival July 2022
North Carolina Trombone Festival – UNC Greensboro - Performance on Faculty Showcase Recital; Elizabeth Raum – “Romance” for trombone and piano April 2022
Solo performance w/ASU Trombone Choir - Arrangement by Jason Wise, ASU Composition/Theory student “When You Wish Upon a Star” - April 2022
North Carolina Brass Band - “Music at the Movies” performance Feb/March 2022
November 2021 - Featured soloist for Appalachian Wind Ensemble performance at NCMEA Convention performing Bolivar by Eric Cook
July 2021 - 3Basso – Low Brass Trio - International Trombone Festival Recital Performance - Columbus, GA
March 2021 - Performance on NW District All-District Band Faculty Recital; Appalachian State University - Bone Man Walking by Michael Davis
February 2021 - Performance on Black History Month Faculty Recital; Appalachian State University - Amber Waves by Evan Williams
September 2020 - Performance on Faculty Recital “An Evening of Encores”; Appalachian State University - Three Calls for Unaccompanied Trombone by Brad Edwards
July 2020 - 3Basso – Low Brass Trio - International Trombone Festival Recital Performance - Osaka, Japan (CANCELLED due to COVID-19)
May 2020 - Ohio Trombone Quartet - Featured soloists with Muskingum Valley Symphonic Winds (Muskingum, OH) performing Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jeff Cortazzo (OTQ was part of the consortium commissioning this work) (CANCELLED due to COVID-19)
March 2020 - Performance at University of Tennessee New Music Festival - Confab by Andrew Hannon (Professor of Composition, Appalachian State University)
February 2020 - Ohio Trombone Quartet - Recitals at Appalachian State University, Emory and Henry University
October 2019 - Faculty Solo Recital @ Appalachian State University featuring music of Besozzi, Tomasi, Schnyder, JacobTV, Gershwin, Pryor
October 2019 - 3Basso - Faculty Recital for 2019 Ohio University Octubafest
September 2019 - Performance on Faculty Recital “An Evening of Encores”; Appalachian State University - Basta by Folke Rabe
July 2019 - Ohio Trombone Quartet - International Trombone Festival Performance on “Faculty Showcase” recital – Ball State University – Muncie, IN
May 2019 - 3Basso – Ohio University Faculty Low Brass Trio - International Tuba Euphonium Conference Recital Performance
February 2019 - 3Basso – Ohio University Faculty Low Brass Trio - Featured Soloists w/Ohio University Wind Symphony @ OMEA Professional Development Conference; Cleveland, OH - “Sounding Field: The Deep” for Low Brass Trio and Wind Symphony by Robert McClure
December 2018 - 3Basso – Ohio University Faculty Low Brass Trio - Featured Soloists w/Ohio University Wind Symphony Ohio University Band-O-Rama concert - Premiere of “Sounding Field: The Deep” for Low Brass Trio and Wind Symphony by Robert McClure
October 2018 - 3Basso - Faculty Recital for 2018 Ohio University Octubafest featuring music of Hindemith, Lynn, Wilder, McClure, others
October 2018 - Substitute Trombone/Bass Trombone - River Cities Symphony Orchestra; Marietta, OH
September 2018 - 3Basso – Ohio University Faculty Low Brass Trio - Performance at West Fork New Music Festival – Fairmont State University; “Sounding Field” for Low Brass Trio by Robert McClure
May 2018 - Substitute Trombone/Bass Trombone - River Cities Symphony Orchestra; Marietta, OH
April 2018 - 3Basso – Ohio University Faculty Low Brass Trio - Performance at Society of Composers Incorporated Invitational Concert – West Virginia University; “Sounding Field” for Low Brass Trio by Robert McClure
March 2018 - West Virginia Music Educators Association Conference performance/clinic with 3BASSO - "Low Brass, High Standards: A Creative and Versatile Approach to Chamber Music"
February 2018 - Ohio Music Educators Association Conference featured performance with Ohio Trombone Quartet
February 2018 - Ohio Trombone Quartet - Featured Artists @ OU Trombone Day (JB presented masterclass titled "In Tone, In Tune, In Time")
February 2018 - Ohio Trombone Quartet Tour - performances @ Otterbein University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Capital University, Concert Series @ Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church; Marysville, OH
October 2017 - 3BASSO recital for OU Octubafest - featuring the music of Bozza, Boismortier, Blazevich, Wolking, others
October 2017 - Guest Trombone w/ OhioBrass (OU Faculty Brass Quintet) Octubafest recital
October 2017 - Substitute Trombone - River Cities Symphony Orchestra - Marietta, OH
June 2017 - Featured Bass Trombone Soloist - OU "Under the Elms" Concert Series - Performance of "Variations on Barnacle Bill, the Sailor" with OU Communiversity Band
February 2017 - Ohio Music Educators Association Conference performance/clinic with 3BASSO - "Low Brass, High Standards: A Creative and Versatile Approach to Chamber Music"
October 2016 - 3BASSO faculty recital for OU Octubafest
October 2016 - Duet with Jason Smith, tuba for OU Octubafest concert
September 2016 - Ohio/Pennsylvania Tour with Ohio Trombone Quartet - performances at Ohio University, Ohio State University, Muskingum University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
7/4/16 - "Bluegrass and Brass" with King Street Brass - Blowing Rock, NC
May 2016 - North Carolina High School Concert Tour with 3Basso - performances in Winston-Salem, Gastonia, Hickory, and Lexington, NC
1/2016 - Performance with Take Four Trombone Quartet - Big 12 Trombone Conference - Texas Tech University; Lubbock, TX
2015-16 - Substitute Trombone/Bass Trombone - West Virginia Symphony Orchestra
12/2015 - Guest performance with OhioBrass, OU Faculty Brass Quintet, Jackson, OH
10/14/15 - Trio performance with Lucas Borges, trombone and Jason Smith, tuba
10/4/15 - Performance with OhioBrass, OU Faculty Brass Quintet
9/19/15 - 2nd Trombone with West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Charleston, WV
6/2015 - Handel Duet w/Lucas Borges - Mozart on the Green Festival, Athens, OH
4/11/15 - Guest Artist @ Southeastern Oklahoma University Trombone Day
11/10/14 - Masterclass @ Ohio University - "The Alto Trombone"
9/14-10/14 - Chamber Performances with Lucas Rego Borges, trombone, and Jason Smith, tuba - Athens, OH
4/15/14 - Featured Guest Artist with Berea College Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band, Berea, KY. Also working with Berea College students 4/14 and 4/15.
7/27-8/3/13 - Fellow at 2013 Alessi Seminar, Tuscaloosa, AL
5/1/13 - Featured soloist with Western Illinois University Jazz Band
4/13/13 - Gershwin - American in Paris (Pops concert) Bass Trombone w/ Quincy Symphony Orchestra
2/9/13 - Saint Saens - Symphony No. 3 w/Quincy Symphony Orchestra
11/10/12 - Holst - The Planets w/Peoria Symphony Orchestra
7/2012 - UT Trombone Choir Tour of Europe - featured performance at ITF 2012 in Paris, France
6/9/12 - Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue w/Victoria Bach Festival Orchestra
5/1/12 - Performance with original Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine - New Braunfels, TX
4/13/12 - DMA Lecture Recital - “Frigyes Hidas’ Movement and Baroque Concerto - A Performer’s Analysis”
2/12/12 - Take Four quartet performance with Steven Mead
10/31/11 - Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique w/UTSO
10/28/11 - DMA II Solo Recital - featuring music of Hindemith, Peaslee, Rabe, JacobTV, Puccini - UT Butler School of Music
6/2011 - Performance at ITF 2011 w/Palmetto Posaunen, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
4/10/11 - City Limits Brass performance @ Baylor University
4/8/11 - DMA Chamber Recital - featuring music of Rush, Albinoni, Bozza, Biber, Lennon/McCartney - UT Butler School of Music
4/1/11 - Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel w/UTSO
2/11 - CLBQ performance of Bernstein MASS with UT Wind Ensemble
11/21/10 - Suite from MASS - Bernstein (w/City Limits Brass and Austin Symphonic Band)
10/15/10 - DMA I Recital - featuring music of Creston, Bozza, Mozart, Gershwin, Stojowski - University of Texas - Austin
7/2010 - Performances at 2010 ITF w/University of Texas Trombone Choir - Austin, TX