Abel Sanchez
Trumpet
Mr. Sanchez is a graduate of the renowned University of North Texas where he earned a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance with a secondary emphasis in Jazz Studies. A Bachelor of Music Education degree was completed at New Mexico State University. While attending the UNT College of Music, Mr. Sanchez was on the faculty as a Trumpet Teaching Fellow and undergraduate chamber ensemble director. While at NMSU, he held the position of Trumpet Assistant, director of the second jazz ensemble, and held an additional assistantship with the Las Cruces Symphony.
Academically, Mr. Sanchez is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. He is a past winner of the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Scholarship Competition and was active as a counselor at the Mile High Jazz Camp in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Sanchez has completed recordings under the PS Classics Label, the GIA Windworks Label and has appeared at the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival, College Band Directors National Association and Texas Bandmasters Association conferences, as well as other venues from Washington D.C. to southern California.
As a professional musician Mr. Sanchez can be heard on The Golden Apple, one of the top ten opera recordings of 2015 as selected by Opera News. He has performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, Lyric Stage of Irving, Uptown Players of Dallas, Richardson Symphony, North Texas Wind Symphony, the Texas Ballet Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and with such artists as Michael W. Smith, Lee Greenwood, Sandi Patty, Tony Campise, Mariachi Cobre and a host of others.
Mr. Sanchez has just celebrated twenty years as a trumpet teaching artist. His students have won the International Trumpet Guild Youth Scholarship Competition, been accepted to the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Program, selected as members of the Texas All-State and New Mexico All-State bands as well as the Dallas Youth Orchestra and Fort Worth Youth Orchestra. Students of the trumpet studio consistently receive first division ratings at solo and ensemble festivals.
Academically, Mr. Sanchez is a member of the Golden Key International Honour Society and the Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. He is a past winner of the International Trumpet Guild Jazz Scholarship Competition and was active as a counselor at the Mile High Jazz Camp in Boulder, Colorado. Mr. Sanchez has completed recordings under the PS Classics Label, the GIA Windworks Label and has appeared at the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Festival, College Band Directors National Association and Texas Bandmasters Association conferences, as well as other venues from Washington D.C. to southern California.
As a professional musician Mr. Sanchez can be heard on The Golden Apple, one of the top ten opera recordings of 2015 as selected by Opera News. He has performed with the Fort Worth Symphony, Lyric Stage of Irving, Uptown Players of Dallas, Richardson Symphony, North Texas Wind Symphony, the Texas Ballet Orchestra, the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra and with such artists as Michael W. Smith, Lee Greenwood, Sandi Patty, Tony Campise, Mariachi Cobre and a host of others.
Mr. Sanchez has just celebrated twenty years as a trumpet teaching artist. His students have won the International Trumpet Guild Youth Scholarship Competition, been accepted to the Interlochen Center for the Arts Summer Program, selected as members of the Texas All-State and New Mexico All-State bands as well as the Dallas Youth Orchestra and Fort Worth Youth Orchestra. Students of the trumpet studio consistently receive first division ratings at solo and ensemble festivals.
Mary Sanchez
Flute
Mary Reyes Sanchez is a graduate of New Mexico State University where she earned both a Master of Music degree, with emphasis in conducting and a Bachelor of Music Education degree. While at NMSU she was on the faculty as a Graduate Flute Teaching Assistant, adjunct instructor for woodwind techniques, and held an assistantship with the Las Cruces Symphony.
Pedagogically, Mrs. Sanchez is active in several flute organizations. She has served as both President and Vice-President of one of the largest flute organizations in the country, the Texas Flute Society, home to the Myrna W. Brown Artist competition. Mrs. Sanchez has also been on the faculty of the renowned Floot Fire camp founded by Claire Johnson. She is currently assistant director of one of the fastest growing flute summer camps in the north Texas area Flute Camp! Mrs. Sanchez has served as an adjudicator in solo and ensemble festivals and as a clinician in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Her performing credits include principal flutist with the Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso, the Dona Ana Lyric Opera, member of the Las Cruces Symphony and has appeared at the College Band Directors National Association conference. She has also worked with legendary sound engineer and Grammy Award winner Phil York completing works for composer C. Edward Salter under the Eagle Tiger Record Label.
The Flute Studio under Mrs. Sanchez has now been producing successful students for twenty years. Her students have consistently received superior ratings at solo and ensemble festivals, recognition at auditions in the middle/high school and university levels. Students from the studio have been selected to the Texas All-State and New Mexico All-State bands and accepted to university music programs across the country.
Pedagogically, Mrs. Sanchez is active in several flute organizations. She has served as both President and Vice-President of one of the largest flute organizations in the country, the Texas Flute Society, home to the Myrna W. Brown Artist competition. Mrs. Sanchez has also been on the faculty of the renowned Floot Fire camp founded by Claire Johnson. She is currently assistant director of one of the fastest growing flute summer camps in the north Texas area Flute Camp! Mrs. Sanchez has served as an adjudicator in solo and ensemble festivals and as a clinician in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Her performing credits include principal flutist with the Gilbert and Sullivan Company of El Paso, the Dona Ana Lyric Opera, member of the Las Cruces Symphony and has appeared at the College Band Directors National Association conference. She has also worked with legendary sound engineer and Grammy Award winner Phil York completing works for composer C. Edward Salter under the Eagle Tiger Record Label.
The Flute Studio under Mrs. Sanchez has now been producing successful students for twenty years. Her students have consistently received superior ratings at solo and ensemble festivals, recognition at auditions in the middle/high school and university levels. Students from the studio have been selected to the Texas All-State and New Mexico All-State bands and accepted to university music programs across the country.