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Bryan Proksch Bryan Proksch (Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A. Pennsylvania State University, B.A. Centre College) is assistant professor of music at McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana. His research interests include the music of Haydn and Mozart, Schoenberg’s reception of Haydn, Vincent d’Indy’s reception of 18th century music, and the history of the trumpet. He has presented at the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, at two national meetings of the American Musicological Society, at the Ottawa International Chamber Music Festival Symposium, three meetings of the Haydn Society of North America, at the national meeting of the Historic Brass Society, and at various regional conferences ( AMS-S and AMS-SE). In 2007 he was awarded a grant from the Avenir Foundation and a faculty research award from McNeese to fund a research trip to the Schoenberg Center in January 2008. While at the Schoenberg Center, Bryan began work on Schoenberg's reception of Debussy and Schoenberg's distinctive use of the whole tone scale in his 1902 Pelleas und Melisande, op. 5, furthering his intersets in Schoenberg's reception of a number of earlier composers. His publications include forthcoming articles in the Jorunal of Musicological Research, the Journal of the Arnold Schoenberg Center , the Historic Brass Society Journal, and articles in Music Research Forum, the Eisenstädter Haydn-Berichte, the International Trumpet Guild Journal, and Brass Bulletin, as well as a number of musical editions (through Editions BIM's Brass Press division), and book reviews (Fontes Artes Musicae, Notes, and the ITG Journal). His article in the Volume 23 (2008) issue of Music Research Forum discussed cyclic integration in Mozart's K. 464 as related to Beethoven's practice in op. 18/5, while his article in the Journal of Musicological Research will address Vincent d'Indy's reception of Haydn. The October 2007 issue of the ITG Journal features an article by him on Classical-era gestures in Kent Kennan's 1956 Sonata for Trumpet and Piano. The set of trumpet duets by eighteenth-century English trumpeter Valentine Snow that he discovered and published has been recorded by Reinhold Friedman for Capriccio (ASIN B00007GZN4). His edition of trumpet quartets by Jules Cerclier is also being recorded by Jean-Louis Couturier. As much as possible, Bryan continues to perform on his trumpets. This includes playing in the McNeese Trumpet ensemble and in the Lake Charles Community Band. His Spring 2007 20th-Century Music class staged a "Happening" on the McNeese campus. He also continues to play and build natural trumpets. In the past he has played with a variety of ensembles including the Advocate Brass Band (where he was one of the soloists for the "New York Baby Prize Waltz" on the group's The New York Times CD recorded for Gazebo Records), the Pennsylvania Chamber Chorale, the University of Pittsburgh Baroque Ensemble, the Pennsylvania State University Baroque Ensemble, the Penn State Philharmonic Orchestra, Penn State's “Outer Dimensions” Jazz Ensemble, and UNC-CH’s Baroque Ensemble. |
