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Flugelhorn
Tanya Bromley is in her thirteenth year as a member of the Lexington Brass Band. She earned her Bachelor of Music Education degree from Eastern Kentucky University and Master of Music, with a major in music education and minor in trumpet performance, from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. At the Conservatory, she studied with Marie Speziale of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. Tanya is a former member of the Cincinnati Brass Band and the Cincinnati Brass Fellowship. She currently performs with the Immanuel Baptist Church Orchestra in Lexington, and has performed professionally with the Lexington Philharmonic, the Springfield Ohio Symphony, and a variety of free-lance engagements. Tanya retired from public school music teaching in 2003. She currently maintains a private teaching studio in the Lexington area and serves as the trumpet professor at Transylvania University. In addition to her trumpet performance and teaching activities, she supervises music student teachers for Morehead State University.
Paul Hickner has been a member of the Lexington Brass Band for ten years. He received his B.M.E. and M.M. (trumpet) degrees from Indiana University and has also pursued doctoral studies in brass pedagogy at I.U. He has played in many different brass ensembles, orchestras, and big bands over the years, performing as a soloist with the LBB and the Central Kentucky Concert Band. He enjoys golf, hockey, running, and karate. He and his wife Paula (music librarian, University of Kentucky) have two children. He works at Lexington’s Community Montessori School, teaching Music and Physical Education. Paul runs three bands, teaches numerous private lessons on various instruments, and serves as an adjunct faculty member at Asbury University.
E Flat Alto Horn
Nathan Miller is beginning his second tour of duty with the Lexington Brass Band, playing previously with the LBB in 2001-2002. He is currently the Director of Music for The Salvation Army in Lexington, KY where he directs both adult and youth brass ensembles, as well as children’s choral and beginning music programs. Nathan has received Horn Performance degrees from Asbury University (B.A. 2005) and the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music (M.M. 2007). After spending two summers in Italy playing horn for the Opera Theater and Music Festival of Lucca, Nathan now enjoys olive oil and speaking faux-Italian. He was previously a member of the St. Louis Brass Band from 1999-2001. The Salvation Army music programs provided Nathan with his early music education. More importantly, his involvement in The Salvation Army gave him the opportunity to experience God’s love and share it with others in practical ways. Nathan has a hamster named Oreo, a nephew named Andy, a niece named Ellen and enjoys woodworking, books, and freestyle rapping…yo.
Susan Henthorn, a native of Eastern Ohio, earned her Bachelor’s in Music Education degree from Otterbein College and a Masters in Library Science from Kent State University. She is a former member of the Village Brass Quintet (then the Hallelujah Brass Quintet), the Westerville Symphony, and Danville’s Advocate Brass Band where she also served as the group’s librarian. Susan is currently the Berea Digital Project Coordinator at Hutchins Library, Berea College. She is a member of Mortarboard, Delta Omicron, and Beta Phi Mu. Susan currently serves as the secretary for the North American Brass Band Association board.
Mike West attended Michigan State University, spent two years as a musician at Ft. Hood Army base and graduated from Wayne State University with a Bachelor of Music degree. For 20+ years he taught music in Michigan schools and was a musical consultant and arranger for marching bands and drum corps throughout Michigan and Canada. He was a member of the Great Lakes Judges Association.
In 1983 he moved back to his home state of Kentucky. He was one of the original founders of the Capital City Community Band. He has been a member of Saxton’s Cornet Band for 15 years and is currently a member of the board of directors. He has played alto horn in the Lexington Brass Band since its beginning and is a member of its board of directors. He is currently working with the Frankfort Salvation Army Youth Band. He has spent countless hours arranging and transposing music of the mid and late 1800s.
Mike is married, has three children and two grandsons and lives in Frankfort, Kentucky, where he works for Franklin County Public Schools in Community Education.
Major Mike Himes is an officer in The Salvation Army, where he received most of his training on brass instruments. He is appointed to The Salvation Army Student Fellowship Center at Asbury University in Wilmore, KY. Mike has taught numerous children and adults to play a brass instrument. He attended the University of Connecticut, and Nyack College, where he received a degree in Organizational Management. He is currently enrolled in Asbury Theological Seminary where he is working on a Masters of Arts in Biblical Studies. Michael and his wife, Cathy, are involved in The Salvation Army’s brass band and vocal ensemble at Asbury University and in Lexington.
