2008 Winds & Brass Workshop Faculty
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Trumpet player Bruce Daugherty has been a core member of the Millar Brass Ensemble for 13 years and is recorded on their last four compact disc releases. The group received national recognition for their contribution to the successful cross-over recording "Heigh Ho Mozart!" (Delos) and is considered to be one of the best brass ensembles in the United States. Daugherty maintains a busy freelance schedule throughout Chicago and the Midwest, Originally from Seattle, he received his Master of Music degree from Northwestern University (Evanston, IL).
Daugherty is also Assistant Band Director and private trumpet instructor at New Trier High School in Winnetka, IL. During summers, he teaches and performs at the Performing Arts Institute of Wyoming Seminary near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He founded Brassmeisters, a popular summer program for young brass players, at Elgin Community College.
Groups he has performed with include the Lake Forest Symphony, the Northwest Symphony Orchestra (Seattle, WA), the Lincoln Opera, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, the Salt Creek Ballet, the Springfield (IL) Symphony Orchestra, the Illinois Chamber Orchestra and the Illinois Philharmonic. Bruce has studied with Arnold Jacobs, Barbara Butler and Vincent Cichowicz and is the co-director of MYA’s Big Bands.
Oboist Naomi Bensdorf Frisch enjoys an active career as a performer and music educator. Along with holding principal Oboe positions in the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Elmhurst Symphony, Mrs. Bensdorf Frisch performs regularly with the Chicago Chamber Orchestra during their season at the Chicago Cultural Center and as principal Oboe for their residency at the Southern Illinois Music Festival. As a soloist, Naomi has performed with the Southwest Michigan Symphony, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, and the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. In demand as a freelance musician, Mrs. Bensdorf Frisch has recently performed with the Tulsa Opera and Symphony Orchestras, the Elgin Symphony, the South Bend Symphony, Light Opera Works, and others. She can be heard on recordings with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra and the Elgin Symphony and in a collection of the chamber music of renowned Chicago composer M. William Karlins, available on Hungaroton Records.
A native of Evanston, Illinois, Mrs. Bensdorf Frisch received her Bachelor of Music Magna cum Laude from Northwestern University, as a student of Ray Still, and her Masters of Music with Distinction from DePaul University. As a 1999-2000 Fulbright Scholar, Naomi traveled to Germany to study with internationally renowned Oboist Ingo Goritzki and perform with the Southwest German Baroque Soloists.
Mrs. Bensdorf Frisch is often working with young musicians. She is the coordinator of woodwind chamber music for the award-winning Midwest Young Artists program and runs their summer woodwind chamber music camp. Naomi is in demand as a private Oboe teacher for Chicagoland’s young Oboists, teaching private Oboe lessons at the Music Institute of Chicago and the North Shore School for the Arts, among others. In addition, she has given master classes and clinics at Southern Illinois University and has been on the Faculty of Trinity College, Lake Forest College, North Park University, and DePaul University.
