Indiana Univ., ECSO, Hot Jam, Cajun Gumbo, Riverboat Ramblers, Island Rhythm, CT Brass, Jazz Alive & Hot Cats. Faculty: Wesleyan Univ.

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Rich Denton, tuba, is a native New Englander. He graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1999, the same year he joined the Coast Guard Band playing co-principal tuba. In the summers before donning Coast Guard blue, Mr. Denton enjoyed a variety of jobs, including the strolling bands of Hersheypark in 1998, the Disney/Grammy All-American College Orchestra at EPCOT in 1997, and stage crew at Interlochen Arts Camp in 1996. He also enjoyed spending time at Tanglewood with the Atlantic Brass Quintet, and many years at Laurel Music Camp in Winsted, CT. Mr. Denton was a founding member of the Barefoot Brass Quintet during his college years, and is now a member of the Coast Guard Brass Quintet. His teachers include Martha Taylor, Andy Rodgers, and Dave Unland. Mr. Denton is proud to teach many middle and high school low brass students in southeastern CT.

James E. Jackson III, principal euphonium, is a native of Lexington, Kentucky. He has completed course work towards the Doctor of Musical Arts degree in euphonium performance with an emphasis in instrumental conducting at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. He received a Master of Music degree in euphonium performance in 1995 from George Mason University and a Bachelor of Music degree in music education from the University of Kentucky in 1993. He was principal baritone of the Lexington Brass Band and a featured soloist with the band at the Midwest Clinic International Band and Orchestra Conference in 1997. He has also performed as a soloist with ensembles at the University of Kentucky, George Mason University, and the University of Connecticut, where he premiered Allen Feinstein’s concerto for euphonium and band, Swimming the Mountain. Mr. Jackson is a founding member of the Kentucky Horse Park Four Horsemen Tuba Quartet and the Concord Tuba-Euphonium Quartet. He was a recipient of the Lyman T. Johnson Fellowship at the University of Kentucky, toured Spain as a member of the American Spiritual Ensemble, and was a first place winner in the 1995 International T.U.B.A. conference Tuba-Euphonium Quartet competition and a first place winner at the prestigious Leonard Falcone International Solo Euphonium Competition in 1994. He has been a clinician throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe at numerous universities, colleges, and public schools. In addition to his position as principal euphonium with the United States Coast Guard Band, Mr. Jackson is presently the music director and conductor of the Thames Valley Music School Youth Symphony Orchestra, Lecturer of Euphonium Studies at the University of Connecticut, and a performer with the tuba and euphonium quartet Alchemy, appearing annually in Northern Germany, presenting solo performances, lecturing at master classes, and conducting brass ensembles.

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Gregory Martin, trumpet a native of Raleigh, North Carolina, joined the United States Coast Guard Band in July 1981. A graduate of Millbrook High School in Raleigh, he received a bachelor of music education degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1979. While at the university he performed as a member of the faculty brass quintet. Greg received a graduate assistantship at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1979 and subsequently earned a master of science degree in music education. Mr. Martin was one of four solo competition winners at the International Trumpet Guild Conference held at Ohio State University in 1980, and performed as a member of the University of Illinois Trumpet Ensemble at the 1981 ITG Conference at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Carroll Potts, trumpet, is a native Virginian and a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Shenandoah Conservatory of Music. Carroll joined the United States Coast Guard Band in 1979 and was appointed principal trumpet of the Band in 1988. He has performed as a soloist with the Band on several occasions and has been a featured bugler on nationally televised broadcasts of the Memorial Day celebrations at the U.S. Capitol. He has recorded all of the bugle calls currently used in Coast Guard ceremonies on the Band’s CD Ceremonials. Local performances are with the Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Hot Cross Brass, and the Whaling City Brass. Carroll teaches privately and at the Thames Valley Music School.

Marjorie Sturm, horn has served in the U. S. Coast Guard Band since December 1984. Before taking over administrative duties full time in May 2006, she was principal horn for nineteen years and performed in the concert band for over twenty-one years. She earned a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Kentucky in 1983 and a Master of Music degree in 1985 from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois. She has performed with the Colorado Philharmonic Orchestra, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, and the Lexington (KY) Philharmonic Orchestra. Her teachers include Gail Williams, former co-principal horn of the Chicago Symphony, and Jonathan Menkis, Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Illinois State University, Northwestern State University. Peoria Symphony Orchestra,Opera Illinois, Heartland Philharmonic.