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ackermanc@uncw.edu
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Trumpet, Band, Jazz Lab Band, Coordinator of Instrumental Performance
Master of Music, Northwestern University
Bachelor of Music, University of Arizona
Christofer L. Ackerman is an accomplished musician, performer, teacher, and conductor. As a conductor, he has served as guest conductor and clinician for Duplin, Brunswick, and Pender counties' all-county bands and adjudicated the Eastern District's Solo/Ensemble Festival as well as the Middle School Band Festival for the North Carolina Bandmasters' Association. He is also a tenure-track professor of music at UNCW, where, among other things, he is Professor of Trumpet, Instrumental Coordinator, and conductor of the Wind Symphony, Chamber Winds, and Pep Band. He has studied conducting with Gregg I. Hanson, The University of Arizona, and with Mallory Thompson at the Northwestern Conductors' Symposium. As a trumpet player, he has maintained a richly diverse musical life that has included solo performances, lead parts in off-Broadway shows, CD recordings, studio work, and numerous other venues throughout the United States and the world, in locations from Disneyworld to Germany and Norway. He has played with many varied ensembles including the Chicago Community Orchestra and the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, where he played an all John Williams concert under the baton of John Williams himself. Currently he is Principal Trumpet of the Long Bay Symphony, lead trumpet for the Cape Fear Jazz Orchestra, and plays in the UNCW Faculty Brass Quintet. He received his Bachelor's of Music in Education, cum laude, from The University of Arizona and his Master's of Music in Performance from Northwestern University.
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