Timothy Leasure
Trumpet
The Zunkiewicz Family Chair
Timothy Leasure received a Bachelor of Music in Music Education from Ohio University and a Master of Music in Performance from The Ohio State University. After college, he won a position as trumpet instrumentalist with the United States Navy Band in Washington, DC. He was also a member of the Navy Band Brass Quintet, a group featured on the band’s recording Music for Chamber Winds.
He has performed with the Arlington (VA) Symphony, the Annapolis (MD) Symphony, the Harrisburg (PA) Symphony, the Fairfax (VA) Symphony, the Ohio Valley Symphony, and the West Virginia Symphony. He is currently second trumpet in ProMusica Chamber Orchestra and performs as an Associate Musician with the Columbus and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestras.
He can be heard in over 40 recordings by professional orchestral, band and chamber music ensembles. He has performed extensively in the United States and Europe, and in such prestigious venues as Carnegie Hall; the White House; the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; La Chapelle Notre-Dame de Rocamadour, France; and the Esterhazy Palace in Eisenstadt, Austria.
He is currently Professor of Trumpet at The Ohio State University School of Music. His students hold university positions throughout the country and perform in military bands and orchestras worldwide. He is equally proud of his former students who are teachers nationwide in our nation’s public and private schools.
He is the sole author of two software applications for the Apple iPhone and iPad, the award-winning Mahler Translations and Musicorum.
In 2001, he was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. He was also the recipient of the 2004 Distinguished Teaching Award and the 2015 Distinguished Scholar Award, both at The Ohio State University School of Music.
He was recently named as a Yamaha Performing Artist.
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