Kim Dunnick

Kim Dunnick has been professor of trumpet at Ithaca College since the fall of 1981. In addition to private trumpet instruction, he performs with the Ithaca Brass, and chairs the performance studies department. He is a recipient of a Dana Fellowship, awarded for excellence in teaching.

Dunnick earned an undergraduate degree at Indiana University in Bloomington, a Master’s degree at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and a Doctor of Music degree with Indiana University. His trumpet teachers include Louis Davidson, Herbert Mueller, David Flowers, Walter Blanton and Charles Gorham.

From 1970 to 1973 Dunnick was a member of The United States Army Band in Washington, D.C., performing with the Ceremonial Band, the Herald Trumpets, and the Army Blues Jazz Band, and has been a member of the Knoxville Symphony, the Elmira Symphony, the Brasswind quintet, and, for ten years, was solo trumpet of the Victoria Bach Festival in Texas. He is currently principal trumpet with the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra.

A founding member of ITG, Dunnick has served for many years on the Board of Directors, the Executive Committee, and from 1997-1999, as President, actively expanding the international involvement of ITG and helping to establish the Australian Trumpet Guild. He has written several articles for the ITG Journal, and served as Book Review Editor for 20 years. He coedited, with Joyce Davis, the autobiography of Russian virtuoso Timofei Dokshizer, and produced the celebratory pamphlet Twenty Five Years of the ITG, highlighting important figures and events of this organization’s first twenty five years of service to our community. Active as aclinician and adjudicator, he has given trumpet master classes worldwide.

From: International Trumpet Guild Lifetime Achievement members