Marcus S. Grant started his musical life as a singer at age 4 and has since grown to love and adore music and musicians of every type. Marcus is a teacher, trumpet player, and composer specializing in Wind Ensemble, Chamber Ensemble, Brass Ensemble, and Marching Arts music. To his credit, Marcus' compositions and arrangements have been performed on numerous football fields, concert halls, conferences, and seminars around the world. Marcus is the official Composer and Arranger in Residence with The Brass Roots, located in Pittsburgh, PA. Above everything else, Marcus devotes his life to the promotion and enrichment of quality music education for young people.

Freelance Trumpet player/Jazz Musician/Composer/ Arranger/Conductor/Musical Director/Music Teacher 

I am working musician, freelance trumpet player living in Oakland, California. I am most interested in jazz, and creative improvised music, but right now find myself playing anything and everything that will pay my bills. I attended Indiana University-Bloomington where I received a BM & MM in Jazz Studies-trumpet.

Dr. Angela Elizabeth Slater is a UK-based composer, whose compositional voice focuses on musically mapping aspects of the natural world into the fabric of music. Nominated for an Ivors Classical Award for her work, Through the Fading Hour, her music has been described as ‘intricate...and often ravishingly scored’ and  making ‘deft and vivid use of instrumental colour’.. Slater collaborates with performers, ensembles, and initiatives worldwide to musically explore sounds, colours, and textures.

Slater’s recent creative projects include fellowships at the Modern Music Festival, with performances of Glass dominoes for mixed ensemble and Gathering the tide for orchestra; Hong Kong Intimacy of Creativity Festival, working with the Viano Quartet on Distorted Light; Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, for a commission of Where skies aflame, written for the Flux quartet; and Creative Dialogues Festival, for the world premiere of a tulip, iron. She has previously held Composition Fellowships at Tanglewood Music Center, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Society, Royal Scottish National Orchestra Composers’ Hub, Stockholm Chamber Brass Academy, Impulse Festival, Young Composers Meeting. She is also the receipt of the Mendelssohn Scholarship Award and is an ISCM World Music Days Nominee.

Unravelling the Crimson Sky will be a featured work on the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra’s upcoming album, Sounds New. Additional upcoming collaborations include Arbor Concerto, a consortium for accordion and chamber orchestra led by Sanja Mlinarič, Mountains become oceans, a consortium for percussion and harp led by Rosanna Moore and Hannah Weaver, and an expansion of As the moon runs red into a trumpet concerto with wind ensemble led by Simon Debruslais. Past collaboration highlights include working with Laura Farré Rozada  and the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Symphony Orchestra on piano concerto, Tautening skies and with Richard Waters and the London Philharmonic Orchestra on the world premiere of her viola concerto, Through the fading hour.

​Slater is also the Director of Illuminate Women’s Music, a chamber music concert series designed to celebrate the creativity of women composers and performers, as well as exploring the rich legacy of music written by women historically. Her works are self-published, with select works published by Composers Edition and Babel Scores. Please visit https://www.angelaslatercomposer.co.uk/ for more information.
For more information please visit: https://angelaslatercomposer.co.uk

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‘…the trumpet parts were played so softly and carefully with the rest of the ensemble.' 
Dave Brubeck - La Fiesta de la Posada
Mark Cox began playing the cornet just before his sixth birthday. He received his musical education from such diverse places as The Royal College of Music, The Royal Military School of Music, Southampton University, and The Lake Placid Institute for the Arts and Humanities. From the age of sixteen, Mark joined the Coldstream Guards Band and enjoyed nine years playing all over the world, before studying at Southampton University for three years, and then embarking on a career as a freelance trumpet player and brass teacher. 
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Mark has played in many concert halls and countries all over the globe, including Japan, South Korea, France, Germany, Cyrus, Czech Republic, United States of America, and Canada.
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Please take a look around my site and please feel free to contact me, I'd certainly really welcome hearing from you. 

https://www.markcoxtrumpet.com

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