Trumpet performance, sound-first brass clinics, and professional learning for students, ensembles, and music educators, from elementary band rooms to the university studio.
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Brent is a current member of Mento Buru, Foster Campbell and Friends, and Soulajar.
Selected performance credits include the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra, Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, Bakersfield Winds, Bakersfield City Ballet, and Bakersfield Music Theatre. His experience also includes commercial sessions, chamber brass, jazz ensembles, and pit orchestras, and he has recorded with Mento Buru and Soulajar.
Sound-first brass teaching informed by the Chicago school and Claude Gordon’s Systematic Approach, for students, ensembles, and music educators.
Share your ensemble’s needs, student experience levels, and goals, with a focus on sound, fundamentals, and musical communication. Include your preferred date, location or online format, available time, and number of participants.
Discuss a clinic ↗Sound-first music teaching, professional learning, and in-service sessions. Include your audience, goals, preferred date, format, and available session length so Brent can suggest a suitable focus.
Discuss a session ↗Chicago-style brass pedagogy translated into rehearsal language directors can use the next day. CASMEC 2027.
Listening, singing, and sound modeling drawn from Arnold Jacobs and Vincent Cichowicz, for studios, sectionals, and clinics.
Attention, practice habits, and performance wellness in one-on-one instruction. Michigan State University, 2020.
Portfolio careers, studio systems, and professional boundaries for working musicians. Washburn University, 2026.
Documenting and preserving pedagogical lineage, with attention to consent and privacy. ITG 2027.
Each topic can be adapted as a keynote, clinic, masterclass, or in-service session, in person or online.
California All-State Music Education Conference
Thursday, January 14, 2027 · 2:00 PM · Room A9
International Trumpet Guild Conference
Lexington, Kentucky · May 18–22, 2027
60-minute session · time forthcoming
Formats, length, and timing for new engagements are arranged by inquiry. Contact Brent about a session.
Brent’s research connects brass pedagogy, motor learning, performance wellness, and the preservation of pedagogical lineages.
His current work explores the documentation and retrieval of pedagogical knowledge, with attention to consent and privacy. Related graduate writing has examined the case for sustained music education funding and the Tanglewood Symposium’s influence on contemporary pedagogy.
In development: Sound-First Brass Teaching, workshop material drawing on Arnold Jacobs’s “Song and Wind” approach and Vincent Cichowicz’s emphasis on lyrical flow.
Connect about research ↗
Brent Williams is a trumpeter, music educator and clinician based in Bakersfield, California. His work spans orchestral and commercial performance, university trumpet instruction and foundational music education, and his teaching centers on sound, musical communication and the practical habits that help musicians develop over time.
Since 2020, Williams has taught applied trumpet at California State University, Bakersfield. He also teaches instrumental music in the Panama-Buena Vista Union School District, working with elementary band and strings students across multiple campuses. He founded Brent Williams Music Studio in 2012, offering individualized instruction, music theory tutoring and audition preparation.
His sound-first approach draws on the Chicago school of brass pedagogy and Claude Gordon’s Systematic Approach. His teachers and mentors include Edward Carroll, Sal Panelli, Kris Tiner, Charles Brady and Don Williams, and his additional study includes Chosen Vale, the Orford Arts Centre and the Musikallpa festival in Lima, Peru.
Biographies and session topics for hosts, plus lecture summaries.
Short and long biographies, established session topics, and inquiry details for conference and workshop hosts.
Download presenter kit ↓PDF · 3 pages · 96 KB
Washburn University guest lecture, October 8, 2026. A concise guide to portfolio careers, studio systems, and professional boundaries.
Download lecture summary ↓PDF · 4 pages · 76 KB
Email brent@bwmusicstudio.com, or call or text (661) 304-2518.
