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Doug Lindsey is the second trumpet for the Wisconsin Brass Quintet and a doctoral candidate in Trumpet Performance at UW-Madison. Most recently, as a chamber musician, Mr. Lindsey has been actively concertizing all over Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois with both the WBQ and the Isthmus Brass Ensemble. Prior to his tenure with WBQ, Mr. Lindsey performed with the Yale Faculty Brass trio in a series of concerts ending in Carnegie Hall in New York City. In addition to the faculty brass, Mr. Lindsey also pursued a busy schedule with the acclaimed Atticus Brass Quintet –winner of the 2009 Aspen Music Festival Quintet Fellowship. With Atticus, Mr. Lindsey had the opportunity to play outreach concerts all over Connecticut, perform alongside the American Brass Quintet, and play an exclusive concert on the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

As an arranger, and as part of his doctoral dissertation project, Mr. Lindsey has begun work on a new collection of arrangements of Haydn symphonies. These works will be scored for many different kinds of trumpets, many different personnel (duo, trio, quartet, quintet and octet), and various levels of difficulty. In addition to the work on Haydn, Mr. Lindsey’s arrangement of the second movement of Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, along with much hard work, has won the Wisconsin Trumpet Ensemble a birth in the 2012 National Trumpet Competition.

As an outreach educator in Yale’s Music in Schools program, under the direction of John Miller, Mr. Lindsey worked with dozens of young musicians each day. As a teacher, he had the task of preparing the students each week for a dizzying array of competitions and concerts that ranged from playing in the school lobby in the “rise and shine” concert series, all the way to unique opportunities at VH1 at the Save the Music Foundation in New York City. Additionally, through this program, he was afforded the opportunity to create, rehearse, and conduct his own unique arrangements for the John Daniel’s Middle School band program. Also, he enjoyed the privilege of adjudicating New Haven’s very own school band competition. Not only was this time spent at John Daniel’s some of the most effective training for teaching music, but it was probably among the most rewarding experiences to date.

As an orchestral musician, Mr. Lindsey has played principal and section trumpet with numerous orchestras and bands under the baton of some of the finest composers and conductors. Many of these fantastic experiences happened while attending the Aspen Music Festival and School in both 2009 as a brass quintet fellow and 2011 as the orchestral trumpet fellow. In addition to orchestral section work, Mr. Lindsey has had many appearances as a featured soloist – performing repertoire ranging from Bach’s 2nd Brandenburg Concerto to Arban’s Carnival of Venice. As a chamber soloist competitor, Mr. Lindsey has competed as a finalist in the International Trumpet Guild’s solo competition, the National Trumpet Competition, and several rounds and levels of both the Arkansas and Connecticut MTNA solo division.

Previous to UW, Mr. Lindsey studied with Allan Dean at Yale, earning his Master of Music with the distinction of winning the John Swallow excellence in brass prize. Prior to Yale he studied with Ray Mase, Louis Ranger, Kevin Cobb, Scott Moore and Richard Rulli. Mr. Lindsey received his music performance and music education degrees magna cum laude from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville. In the not so distant future Mr. Lindsey hopes to pursue his passion for music as a career and inspire the next generation of young trumpeters.