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D. Jay Hildebrandt Professor, Low Brass & Jazz Director, Jazz Ensemble I D.M. (Indiana) 134 Amy E. du Pont Phone: 302.831.1263 Fax: 302.831.3589 |
D. Jay Hildebrandt, is Professor of Music and teaches low brass and jazz. He received his Doctor of Music degree from the Indiana University, where he studied with internationally recognized artists such as Harvey Phillips, David Baker, Wm. J. Bell, Jay Friedman, Lewis Van Haney, Henry C. Smith, Buddy Baker and Keith Brown. Prior to his appointment at the University of Delaware in 1978, he taught in the public school of Gary, Indiana and at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point.
His diversified professional performing responsibilities include principal bass trombone in the Delaware Symphony, tenor trombone in Delaware Brass (the UD faculty brass quintet), tuba in the DSO Brass Quintet and euphonium in the Colonial Tuba Quartet, as well as frequent free-lance work on all four instruments. He can be heard on Spectraphonics, the newly released CD by the Colonial Tuba Quartet on Mark Records. Professor Hildebrandt has appeared with the Minnesota Orchestra and such popular groups as those of Henry Mancini, Les Elgart, and Andy Williams. He has performed with Philabone, Westminster Brass, OperaDelaware, Twentieth Century Ensemble and the Playhouse Theatre.
He has been a faculty member and guest artist at the International
Trombone Workshop, Nashville, Tennessee and presenter/co-organizer of the
Colonial Euphonium Tuba Institute in May, 1996. Professor Hildebrandt is
in high demand as a soloist and a conductor. He performed at the Sapporo
(Japan) Music Festival, the International Tuba Workshop/Symposium at
Lexington, Kentucky, the New York Brass Conference, and on two European
tours with the Colonial Tuba Quartet, of which he is a founding member.