2024 Maryland Junior All State Trumpet Audition Etude, Getchell

2024 Maryland Junior All State Audition Etude, Getchell #106, 2nd Book of Practical Studies
also Montgomery County Honors Band Audition Etude
Intro. starts at beginning
Recording of piece starts 1 min. in
Performed by Fred Marcellus
Fred Marcellus is a native of the Washington, D.C. area and is an active teacher, clinician, adjudicator, soloist, and freelance trumpet player. He holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and Wichita State University.
He is on the faculty of George Washington University where he is the instructor of Trumpet and teaches privately for the Washington Brass Institute. He is the personnel contractor and member of the Washington Ballet Orchestra and was one of the first call substitute players with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Washington Opera Orchestra for over 25 years.
From 1991-2000, he was a Soloist and Assistant Principal Cornet of the “President’s Own” Marine Band and is presently finishing his military career as the First Sergeant with the Band of the Nation’s Capital, the 257th Army Band with the DC National Guard.
As a soloist, he performed over 130 solos with the US Marine Band on four national tours. He was a featured soloist with the American Ballet Theatre in NY and with the Wichita Symphony and at the Mid West Band Clinic and NY Brass Conference.
In the Washington D.C. area, he has performed with many groups including the Washington Chorus, Master Chorale of Washington, the Choral Arts Society, the Alexandria Symphony, the Chesapeake Orchestra, the Wolf Trap Opera, the Dominion Brass, the Virginia Grand Military Band, and the Capital Wind Symphony.
Throughout his career as a freelance musician, he has performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Baltimore Opera, the Chautauqua Symphony (N.Y.), the Wichita Ballet Orchestra, the Annapolis Symphony, the Richmond Symphony, the Eugene Symphony, the Heidelberg Opera Orchestra in West Germany, the University of Maryland Faculty Brass Quintet, the Missouri Chamber Orchestra, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Eastman Brass Quintet, and he was a member of the Disney All-American College Orchestra.
He is on numerous recordings with the US Marine Band, including a solo feature on the Marine Band’s “On Tour” CD. He has recorded with the Rochester Philharmonic, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, the Washington Choral Arts Society, and on live broadcasts with the National Symphony, Washington Opera Orchestra, the Wichita Symphony, and the Chautauqua Symphony.
Prior to joining the “President’s Own” Marine Band, he was a member of the Wichita Symphony and the Wichita Faculty Brass Quintet in Wichita, Kansas.