Thomas J. Trimborn

B.F.A., M.M., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Ph.D., Northwestern University

Thomas Trimborn has over thirty years of teaching experience at all levels of education, elementary through college. He holds degrees in Music Education and Conducting from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee [B.F.A. & M.M.] and in Music Education from Northwestern University - Evanston, Illinois [Ph.D.]. He has conducted many concerts, clinics, camps, festivals and services including performances at Mt. Rushmore, and the Kennedy Center. Of special note were his internationally televised performances of Aaron Copland's Lincoln Portrait with narrator William Warfield at the Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California, and as conductor for Adolph Herseth [retired] principal trumpet in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a rare guest solo appearance. At Truman he currently teaches undergraduate Conducting and is the Director of the graduate Master of Arts in Music Education [MAE] degree program. Numerous articles written and illustrated by Dr. Trimborn have appeared in the Music Educators Journal, The Instrumentalist Magazine, the Band Directors Guide [BDGuide], and the European Music Educators Association Journal. His series of graphic portraits and written biographies entitled Band Pioneers and Jazz Pioneers have both been published by the Village Press and the original art is on permanent display at the United States Air Force Academy Band rehearsal facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Since 1994, he has provided the cover art for the Missouri School Music Magazine. A life-long interest in Abraham Lincoln has led him to create a series of Lincoln portraits with reproductions being available in Springfield, Illinois. His book entitled, Encounters With Lincoln: Images and Words, published by the Truman State University Press in November 2005, is available at bookstores nationwide. Dr. Trimborn is a life member and past Illinois state chair of the National Band Association, has served on the Editorial Committee for the Music Educators Journal, and the Indiana Music Educator's Executive Board. He is currently Truman chapter President of the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. For more information visit: www.angelfire.com/music6/trimborn/