Assistant Professor of Music

Dr. JACK BURT

Dr. Jack Burt joined the University of Maine's School of Performing Arts as an assistant professor of trumpet 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 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 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 has 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, the latest being an Introduction to Rotary Trumpets. Dr. Burt was recently appointed to a position in the Breckenridge Music Festival Orchestra, in Breckenridge Colorado, and has conducted the Brass Section in previous years in their annual “Brass Night” concerts

jack.burt@umit.maine.edu