Levels Taught:
ALL (Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced)
More Information:
Glendon Ingalls' teaching career has included 6 years as Band Director in the Windsor N.W. Supervisory Union, 19 years as Band Director at Barre Town Elementary/Middle School, 2 years as Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Band Director at Spaulding High School, and 12 years as instrumental music teacher at Rutland Town School. A graduate of the University of Vermont Music department, postgraduate studies have included studies at UVM, UNH, Central Connecticut State, Johnson State, and Berklee College of Music. Post-graduate studies have also included trumpet lessons with Charles Schlueter (Boston Symphony) and bass viol lessons with Louis Kosma (Metropolitan Opera Orchestra). A multi-instrumentalist, Glendon is string bass, electric bass, and trumpet instructor at Middlebury College as well as Castleton University. He was trumpet and brass methods instructor at Johnson State College from 1998-2003.
He also teaches trumpet at The Middlebury Community Music Center. He has been invited to conduct wind and jazz ensembles at numerous festivals in northern New England and in upstate New York. He is longtime staff bassist and dectet director at a summer adult jazz camp, Jazz Camp (jazzcamp.com) in Warwick, Rhode Island (formerly Jazz Vt.). In 2006 he was cited by the University of Vermont as Outstanding Vermont Teacher in the Rutland Central Supervisory Union.
During his performance career he has been privileged to perform with many acclaimed jazz, classical, and popular music artists including The Vermont Jazz Ensemble, Joey Leone’s Chop Shop, The Vermont Philharmonic, The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s “Fanfare” Brass Trio, The Red Clover Jazz Trio, The Maple Leaf 7, Fontella Bass, Jimmy Beaumont and The Skyliners, Jerry Bergonzi, Lester Bowie, Jon Faddis, Joshua Bruneau, Vinnie Cutro, Steve Davis, and Chris Vadala. He has performed internationally in the Jazz Over Volga River Festival in Yaroslavl, Russia.
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Information provided on 11/20/2017
