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About Audrey Kolb Lead Trumpet Lately, Audrey has been first chair in the Ramona Jazz Band, Concert Band, Pit Band, and Fanfare Brass. She was involved with CMA for two years. She's played in the Royal Alliance as first chair mellophone for two years, and has done numerous playing gigs with local churches. This coming year, she plans on playing first chair mellophone in the Royal Alliance, first chair trumpet in concert and jazz bands, lead in Fanfare Brass, joining a symphony in San Diego or getting a regular playing job with a local church. Audrey started out her trumpet career in fifth grade in elementary school, playing an old used trumpet. She was the top of her school, and developing her range rapidly with long tones and advancing technically by playing the music quickly. In sixth grade, she assisted her teacher in teaching some of the slower students on trumpet. She was still playing in a beginning band, because the district was lacking any advanced band. That changed the following year. In junior high, Audrey was put in the top band, without chair placements. She feels that she was first chair, but Nathan Stein and Austin Neilson, the other two top trumpeters, probably think the same thing! That year she joined the jazz band, playing third and fourth parts. The next year she was first chair in concert band, where she met Anna Sorrels and Nick Zadrozny. This year she also attended CMA, California Music Acadamy, for the first time. Ah, freshman year. She joined the Royal Alliance Marching Band and she attained second chair in jazz band. Though she lost touch with Anna and Nick for a while, due to the school difference, she started hanging out with Scott Rising, and the "CMA Group", consisting of the members of Kammermusik, a sax quartet, and Carrie Pankrast and Tim Haas. This year, too, she started experimenting with composing and arranging. She had a trumpet trio for a short time, before it broke up due to the summer break. Again, she attended CMA, and high a much highr chair placement, but did not quite make the top band. Her sophomore year in high school has proven a challange academically, which therefore cuts into practice time. Even so, she found time to gain first chair in jazz band, concert band, etc. etc. She began experimenting with Calkwalk, a music-writing program. And... she finally started to take lessons! Since then she has been working her butt off in Arban's. Now, she is trying to get a hold of the music for All-State, practicing Arban's, and practicing a solo audition peice for CMA (again). In time, she hopes to start arranging and composing her own work, and finding a really good tubaist or bass trombonist to join the Fanfare Brass. Most music is made for quintetes, not quartets. |
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