Mark Clodfelter
Assistant Professor of Trumpet

Yamaha Performing Artist

E-mail: markc@uky.edu

Visit Mark's web site at:
www.markclodfelter.com (Not a UK site)

Mr. Clodfelter hails from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He is currently one of the most active performers in the Southeast and can be heard with the Giannini Brass, as Principal Trumpet of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra as well as the DiMartino/Osland Jazz Orchestra (DOJO) and the Kentucky Jazz Repertory Orchestra. Mark is a Yamaha Performing Artist. In addition, from 1999 through 2002, he served as Artistic Director and Conductor of the Smoky Mountain Brass Band.

As a soloist, Mark has appeared throughout the United States, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Ireland, with orchestras, organists, wind ensembles, brass ensembles, and jazz bands. He has recorded extensively in styles ranging from classical to rock, and has appeared with such headliners as The O' Jays, Gladys Knight, Mannheim Steam Roller, and the Moody Blues. This year Mark will participate in the World Premier of a new work, Sonata for Trumpet and Piano by Robert J. Bradshaw. Additionally, he will appear as featured soloist with The UK Wind Ensemble.

Mark is Professor of Trumpet at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Prior to this appointment he was Instructor of Trumpet and Director of the Jazz Band as a member of the faculty at Mars Hill College. He spends his summers playing Lead Trumpet for the Flat Rock Playhouse, the state theatre of North Carolina. In 1996 he served on the faculty of the prestigious Eastern Music Festival as a member of the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and chamber music coach.

Mark holds a Bachelor of Music Education Degree from Lenoir-Rhyne College. While earning his Master of Music Degree from the North Carolina School of the Arts, Mark received a fellowship as Lead trumpet for the NCSA Jazz Ensemble where he also served as co-principal trumpet for the NCSA orchestra, and was a winner of the 1990 International Music Program Concerto Competition.

Sought after as a clinician, Mark makes numerous appearances annually as guest adjudicator, instructor, and soloist at both the High School and Collegiate level. He has written and developed educational programs among which are the Brass Builders Clinics and the acclaimed Science of Sound interdisciplinary presentation. In 1991 he was appointed to the North Carolina Resident Artist roster and continues to pursue educational endeavors through schools, communities, and an active private studio.

Mark plays Yamaha trumpets and Curry mc Mouthpieces.