Associate Professor of trumpet Dr. Jack Burt joined the University of Maine's School of Performing Arts in the fall of 2004. In addition to his responsibilities within the trumpet studio, Dr. Burt conducts the UMaine Jazz Ensemble, directs the Brass Ensemble, the Trumpet Ensemble and coaches student chamber brass groups. He earned degrees from the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Texas at Austin, with additional private studies in Berlin, Germany. His teachers include James Darling, Mary Squire, Keith Amstutz and Raymond Crisara. He has also worked with members of major orchestras in the United States and Europe, among them the Chicago Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic.
Until his appointment to the University of Maine faculty, Dr. Burt had held the position of Associate Professor of Trumpet at Texas A&M University-Kingsville from 1991 to 2004. While in Texas he also served as principal trumpet of the Corpus Christi Symphony and the Victoria Symphony Orchestras, appearing with both groups as a soloist. He presented clinics at the Texas Music Educators Association Convention (TMEA), and was a frequent clinician and recitalist in the area. Earlier he performed for three years in Mexico City as principal trumpet of the Orquesta Filarmonica de la UNAM and was also a member of the Orquesta Filarmonica de la Ciudad de Mexico. Dr. Burt is a contributor of articles and reviews to the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) Journal and the magazine the Brass Herald, among them an Introduction to Rotary Trumpets, and a review of the 2008 Schagerl Brass Festival in Austria.
The Trumpet Studio at UMaine: Students in the Trumpet Studio take part in weekly individual lessons, and Trumpet Ensemble rehearsals, in addition to all their other ensembles. The studio offers a set of special custom instruments which are at the students' disposal for their lessons, performances and recitals: a Scherzer A/B flat rotary piccolo trumpet; Schagerl C and B flat rotary trumpets, 3 Bach B flat Cornets; a Yamaha D/E flat trumpet and a Monette B flat trumpet. In 2007 the Trumpet Studio appeared at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Amherst, MA premiering Brass Rings, by UMaine composer-in-residence Beth Wiemann.
