 Kathryn James Adduci
Office: MUS 270 • Phone: 408-924 4653
Email: Kathryn.Adduci@sjsu.edu
BM – University of Western Australia
MM – University of Georgia
DMA – University of North Texas
Coordinator of Brass Studies, Trumpet
Kathryn James Adduci has performed and taught throughout the world, including in Australia, Asia, Europe and North America. She has appeared as a soloist with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, and has performed with professional orchestras in Australia, Malaysia, Canada and the United States.
Dr. Adduci is well-regarded for her work with historical instruments. She has performed with numerous period instrument groups in North America including the Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra in Toronto, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, Texas Camerata, and the Orchestra of New Spain, and she has taken lessons on the baroque trumpet with Michael Laird, Friedemann Immer, Paul Plunkett and John Thiessen. While a doctoral fellow at the University of North Texas studying under Keith Johnson, she taught the baroque trumpet as well as the modern trumpet, and was the coordinator of early music brass ensembles and the director of the UNT Baroque Trumpet Ensemble. She has appeared as a soloist with the UNT Baroque Orchestra at the fringe festivals of the Boston Early Music Festival and the Berkeley Early Music Festival.
Dr. Adduci is also an experienced chamber musician, in particular through her work at the University of Georgia with Fred Mills (formerly of the Canadian Brass) as a graduate assistant in the Bulldog Brass Society. With this group, she was a musician in residence at the 2000 and 2001 Hartwick Summer Music Festivals in New York State. Her recent awards and other achievements include a prestigious Toulouse Doctoral Fellowship from the University of North Texas (2001-2002), and winning the 2004 National Trumpet Competition Baroque Trumpet College Division. She can be heard on the soundtrack to the 2005 Disney movie Casanova, which topped the Billboard classical chart, and also on the Klavier label, performing with the UNT Wind Symphony under Eugene Migliaro Corporon.
In August of 2005 Dr. Adduci joined the faculty at San José State University, where she serves as the Coordinator of Brass Studies for the School of Music and Dance and as the trumpet teacher. As a teacher she treats each student as an individual with different needs, and helps the student to reach their full potential as a musician by mastering their technique on their instrument most efficiently, and by learning how to use this technique to express the greatest musicality.
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