His principal teachers include Denis Wick, Robert Deahl, Al Lube, Carsten Svanberg, Phil Wilson, Michel Becquet, Allen Barnhill, John Marcellus, Leon Brown, and Dave Maser.
In 1978, John Marcellus, former principal trombonist with the National Symphony Orchestra, along with John Melick, former trombone instructor at Towson State University, founded the Eastern Trombone Workshop at Towson State University, in Baltimore, Maryland.
His conducting teachers have included Richard Lert of the American Symphony Orchestra League and Lloy Geisler of the National Symphony and Catholic University of America.
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1Maria Kilbourn Eastman is the mother of George Eastman, who endowed the Eastman School of Music.
The third euphonium player for the debut performance John Marcellus; the pianist was Steve Harlos; the bassist and drummer were from the Bobby Lewis Band (Chicago).
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