Roy Pickering

Roy Pickering, low brass teacher at the University of Central Florida since 1979. He received his Master of Music with Distinction from Indiana University where he was a teaching assistant to Dr. Thomas Beversdorf. From 1974-79, he was an Assistant Professor at Louisiana Tech University where one of his students won the NATIONAL Collegiate Artist brass auditions for the Music Teachers National Association in Chicago. He has held positions in the public school system of Florida and as a brass instructor at Lawrence University in Wisconsin. Mr. Pickering is an active performer, bass trombonist of the Santa Fe Opera Association in New Mexico and with several orchestras in Louisiana and Florida. From 1982-90, he was bass trombonist on the Artist Faculty at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. Many of his students have been successful in major orchestras, graduate schools and others are performing and teaching. From 1994-96, his student winning the brass the Collegiate Artist Competition for the Florida State Music Teacher's Association and at the National level of MTNA is now the principal tubist with the Seattle Symphony. During the summers of 1995-98 he was bass trombonist at the Classical Music Festival in Eisenstadt, Austria. Summer of 2001, he taught at Moulin d'Ande in France and performed with the UCF Wind Ensemble in the Czech Republic and Hungary. February 2002, he was guest soloist with the UCF Wind Ensemble at the CBDNA in Atlanta. He performs in major programs at the International Trombone Festivals and is responsible for starting the ITA Yaxley Bass Trombone Memorial Scholarship. In August, 2003, he performed by invitation at the International Trombone Festival held in Helsinki, Finland. Mr. Pickering also performed in the Glazunov Hall at the Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory in St. Petersburg, Russia. During the summer of 2004, he performed with the Cramer Choir at the International Trombone Festival held in Ithaca, New York. In May 2005, he performed new trombone ensemble music and adjudicated a final major contest for ITF held in New Orleans.