Shermock

Name: Brad Shermock
Age: 37
Degrees held: BM, U of North Texas; MM DePaul University

What the heck am I doing: Professional musician around Minneapolis/St. Paul on trumpet and guitar; some private teaching; helping wifey raise 2 boys, 1st and 9th grade; some guitar amp repair; clinics and masterclasses when the opportunities present themselves; woodshedding orchestral excerpts 'cuz I can't play them convincingly (!)

When I grow up I will be: Still married to my incredible wife, still Dad to my incredible boys, fishing the Boundary Waters, sailing around Lake Superior, and helping young players find their own unique voice in music (I hope).

I'm afraid to start watching 24 after Manny's confession. It would probably be a very fast, slippery slope.

Shermock

p.s. Shermock shakes at McDonald's right now!

Solar Bell

Manny had a thread in which a lot of guys gave a little bio on themselves.

Here is the link

http://www.trumpetmaster.com/vb/f142...way-25113.html

-cw-

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Ross

That's funny.

I ues my real name, I don't think I have any reason not to. Often with forums I go to register and my name is already taken so I create something. I mean I'm not gonna walk into a cafe and pretend to be someone else.

hornblatt

Name: Annie Lemieux

State you Live: Maryland and wherever the train goes.

Degrees Held: none! I'm a sophmore at the Baltimore School for the Arts(high school)

Present employment: I teach private lessons but wouldn't call myself employed

Present Musical Groups you are involved with: Chesepeake Youth Symphony, Juilliard Pre-College Symphony, 8 various school ensembles (including 2 orchestras 2 brass ensembles and 2 jazz groups), my brass quintet at Pre-college, and any others that I've forgotten.

Past playing experiences: don't have much "past" to talk about. I've been a semi-finalist at the National Trumpet competition 4 times and I won the ITG youth senior competition last year.

What you want to do when you grow up?? well I still have a plenty of time to think about that but as you can see my mind's pretty set on music.

As for the whole question of credibility, I come here to learn not to give advice. I don't post much because I don't have nearly as much to offer as most of the other members of this site. I have learned a lot from the TM and hope that I will be able keep learning for a long time.

Annie

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brett wall

name: Brett Wall

location: Nashville TN, but I'm a Florida boy by birth.

occupation: I'm a mechanic for a Chrysler dealership.

education: High school diploma... barely.

musical aspirations: I'm just trying to play in a local concert band and have a good time. No thoughts of "going pro" or any of that business.

what I have to offer this board: very little, indeed... but the little that I do have is free for the taking.

dinner last night: slow-smoked ribs, seasoned fries, baked beans, and garlic bread.

Yoder

Ron McComb
Vietnam Era Vet
BS: Neuroscience--Washington State University
MBS: Mathematics/Biology--CU Denver

Job: Teach Web Design and IBMYP Tech
Goal: start taking online courses from Berklee...jazz guitar and the like.

Family: Three daughters...no sons. Far too many women in my life. It is my karma. I shared the womb with my twin sister, had three sisters and no brothers, and now have three daughters and no sons. Go and figure.

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Ross

I dig the way Brett did his....

name: James Ross

location: Okinawa, Japan. Grew up in Michigan (Dearborn, Canton, Ann Arbor, you know, the Detroit area)

occupation: USMC

education: High school, some college, currently still taking college classes.

musical aspirations: The cover of Rolling Stone (at least once but hopefully several times), course, I'd feel accomplished if I was on Natioal Geographic too.

what I have to offer this board: stories (fictional and from experience), advice (if possible), humor, posotive energy...

dinner last night: Italian sub on sourdough bread

Nonsense Eliminator

Isn't it interesting what you can find on the Internet these days?

Jon Kratzer

Name: Jon Kratzer

State you Live: Florida

Degrees Held: None..unless you count high school.

Present employment: Freelance recording musician and soloist.

Present Musical Groups you are involved with: Too many to list, who ever is paying the bills this week. Tonight it was the house band at Heidi's jazz club. Tomorrow off to miami for a recording session.

Past playing experiences: Trumpet on 2 Hip-Hop albums, FSYO for 3 years principal trumpet, some very fortunuate ecounters with
Allen Vizzuti, Frankie V, J.B & Kelly Scott, Bootsie Barns & Jon Swana,Arzo Tureaud Quartet/Quintet, Walt Disney World Magic Kingdom trumpeter,ad nauseum. I wont that ITG young artist a few years back...except no one told me I got it until it was almost time for the thing to print lol.


What I have to offer:
The honest opinions of someone who is making it out there the best he can. I don't have the celebrity factor that some people here do, but I make an honest living and intend to keep doing it.

Please keep your eyes peeled for my solo albums coming out. I'm in the midst of compiling the tunes I'm going to record. It should be a blast.


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Especially if one uses Wikipedia and Google's the Universe! Infinity and beyond!

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