Horns
Flugelhorn
Tanya Bromley is in her eighth 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.
E Flat Alto Horn
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.
Susan Henthorn is a native of Eastern Ohio, Susan earned her Bachelors 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) and the Westerville Symphony. In addition to her membership in the LBB, she also plays in the Advocate Brass Band and serves as ABB’s librarian. Susan is currently the Coordinator of Electronic Resources at Hutchins Library, Berea College. She is a member of Mortarboard, Delta Omicron, Beta Phi Mu, the American Library Association, and the Kentucky Library Association.
Ken Schubert, a founding member of the LBB, rejoined the alto section this year (2007-08). In the first two years, he was the Principal Eb Alto Horn, then moved to the cornet section for several years. Ken began his professional playing with the big bands in the late 1940’s and has been
teaching Trumpet since 1958. He taught Undergraduate Trumpet and conducted a Brass Choir at Indiana University, School of Music and was on the Faculties of the Colleges of Education at Indiana University and Eastern Kentucky University, teaching instrumental music and supervising student teachers in the Laboratory Schools at both Universities. He retired as an Assistant
Professor from Eastern in 1982 and returned to teaching in 1988, teaching Yamaha Keyboard Music Classes in the Madison County schools. Ken earned double majors, “Music Education and Trumpet”, for his Bachelors and Masters degrees from Indiana University.