Trombone
Bachelor of Music/Education with Artist Diploma in Trombone from the Eastman School of Music, where his major teacher was Emory Remington; Master of Arts in Musicology from The American University. Additional trombone study with Robert Marstellar, Lewis Van Haney, and Horst Raasch. 16 years as a member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 10 as Principal Trombone. He has also been a member of the Cleveland Orchestra, San Antonio Symphony, Radio Telefis/Eireann Symphony Orchestra (Dublin, Ireland), U. S. Army Band, and Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductors included George Szell, Leonard Bernstein, Pierre Boulez, Seiji Ozawa, James Levine, Frederick Fennell, Sergiu Comissiona, and David Zinman. Mr. Fetter has been a faculty member at the Cleveland Institute of Music and Howard University. He is also a composer, arranger, publisher, and conductor.
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Contact: davidf@peabody.jhu.edu, fetter2@verizon.net, 410 889-2277
Fetter Studio Members in 2007-08
George Wiese
A native of National Park, New Jersey, where he attended Gateway Regional High School, George Wiese also studied in the Juilliard School Pre-College Division before coming to Peabody in the fall of 2005 to enter the Bachelor of Music program. His former teachers include James Markey, Mike Boschen, and Richard Linn. George plays a Shires trombone with a Dillon 5G mouthpiece and two interchangeable bells. At Peabody he has been a member of the Peabody Concert Orchestra, the Peabody Wind Ensemble, and the Trombody Peabones trombone ensemble, and he performs in a trombone/harp duo. He also is a musical director in regional Broadway productions and a member of his family’s brass quintet. George enjoys music from the pre-Rennaissance era to music being written right now, as is reflected in his eclectic collection of CDs. Favorites are Baroque, Romantic, and 20th century composers, such as Bach, Wagner, and Prokofiev. Jazz favorites include Maynard Ferguson, the Woody Herman orchestra, and, of course, Tommy Dorsey. See George's homepage at www.freewebs.com/georgewiese.
Daniel Price
Daniel Price came to Peabody in the fall of 2006 from Chantilly, Virginia, where he studied trombone with Bran Keegan and Kathy Van Horne and attended Westfield High School. At Peabody he is in the undergraduate program in Performance/Recording Arts and Sciences. His trombone is a Getzen Custom Series with a Bach 3G mouthpiece. He is a member of the Peabody Wind Ensemble and the Trombody Peabones and he has performed with a trombone quartet. Dan’s musical interests, often guided by a search for unusual, aesthetically pleasing harmonies, range from Renaissance, Baroque, Late Classical, Romantic, 20th Century, Avant Garde, Avant Garde Jazz, Classic Rock, Progressive Rock, Old School Ska, and Electronic Music to Old School Rap/Hip Hop.
And the
Downtown Brass Quintet
