Fresno Pacific University

Performing Arts Division Chair
Music Program Director
Instrumental Coordinator
Pacific Brass Conductor
University Pep Band Conductor

Sattler Hall, Room
Telephone: 559-453-2217
Fax: 559-453-5558
Email: whuber@fresno.edu

What programs do you teach in?

I teach in the music department. I direct the Pacific Brass choir and University Pep Band. I'm also administrator to 19 full-time and adjunct faculty in the music, theater and art department.

Education

B.A., trumpet performance, California State University, Fresno
M.A., trumpet performance, California State University, Fresno
Lifetime California State Teaching Credential, California State University, Fresno
Post graduate study -
Berklee College, jazz studies
Westminster Choir College, church music and choral conducting
Private study in trumpet -
Dr. Lester Remsen, University of Southern California
Dr. James Winter, California State University, Fresno
Dr. Armond Vorce, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Brady, National Symphony Orchestra
Edward Tarr, Stanford University
Leland Barton, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Gordon Finley, United State Navy Band
Private study in recorder -
Eva LeGene, Royal Conservatory of Music, Copenhagen, Denmark
Walter von Hauwe, Sweelink Conservatory, Amsterdam, Holland
Marianne Verbruggen, European soloist and recording artist
Paul Nauta, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Dr. Carl Dolmetsch, Surrey, England
Private study in piano -
Elsie Duley Hess, Fresno, California
Baroque studies -
Laurette Goldberg, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Michael Sand, University of California, Davis
Summer study programs -
Italian Organ Academy, Pistoia, Italy
Instructors: Gustav Leonhardt, Peter Williams, Luigi Tagliavini
North German Organ Academy
Instructor: Harold Vogel
International Trumpet Guild Festival, Santa Barbara and Long Beach, California
Dolmetch Summer School, England

Share why you teach at FPU

Through music ministry my hope is to glorify our Lord and bring peace in the world.

Scholarly interests

My personal interests are to see students succeed.
My musical interests are wide and varied from early music performance practice of the period to early keyboard, organ and harpsichord to all kinds of brass, jazz and folk music, trumpet and recorder.

Honors and awards

Professional and service experiences

I have had a private trumpet teaching studio for more than 40 years, having the 1st chair trumpet in the California All State Honor Band and Honor Orchestra as my pupil the past two years. I have also sent three of our university students to the Christian Instrumental Director's Association's National Honor Band.

Professional affiliations

Recommended resources

My favorite musically related book is Johann Sebastian Bach as His World Knew Him by Otto Bettmann.
My favorite music festivals are the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville, Kentucky, and Tanglewood Music Festival, summer home of the Boston Symphony in Lenox, Massachusetts.
My favorite orchestra in Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra under Nicolas McKeagan.
My favorite classical trumpet artist is Philip Smith.
My favorite jazz trumpet artists are Clifford Brown and Bobby Hacket.
My favorite recorder artists is Frans Bruggen.

Other information

Certificate received from New York School of Interior Design, New York, New York
Chorister with Trinity Chapel Men and Boys Choir, Princeton, New Jersey
Choir member of Westminster Choir College Symphonic Choir having performed and recorded with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Former member of the Fresno Philharmonic Orchestra and the Fresno Opera Orchestra
Former professional trumpet player in studio, recording and shows for so many name entertainers and celebrities including Ringling Brothers Circus, Ice Capades and Walt Disney on Parade, orchestral, big band and jazz
Former director of music for First Presbyterian Church in Fresno, California
Hobbies: all musical activities--playing music, listening to music, traveling to music festivals and hearing great artists in concert
reading
family dog
running
cycling
tennis
working out/fitness
architecture
historic preservation

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