Logan Place
Interim Department Head/Instructor of Trumpet
Department
Department of Music and Performing Arts
Interim Department Head/Instructor of Trumpet
Department
Department of Music and Performing ArtsDr. Logan Place is Interim Department Head and Instructor of Trumpet in the Department of Music and Performing Arts.
Prior to his appointment he worked as an active freelance musician and teacher in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and Arkansas. Dr. Place holds a Bachelors degree in Music Education from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, a Masters degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas. His primary trumpet instructors were Douglas Lockard, James Buckner, Richard Giangiulio, and Keith Johnson.
He is currently Third Trumpet in the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra and Third Trumpet in the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra in Biloxi, Mississippi. Other groups he has performed with include the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Mobile Symphony Orchestra, Jefferson Performing Arts Society, Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, South Arkansas Symphony Orchestra, Allen Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra at Park Cities, and Little Rock Wind Symphony. Dr. Place previously served on the faculty at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp.
Trumpet playing and braces is Dr. Place’s primary research interest. He has presented clinics at the TMEA (Texas), IMEA (Illinois), LMEA (Louisiana), and International Trumpet Guild conferences. Dr. Place is also published articles in the International Trumpet Guild Journal and The Instrumentalist. A method book is forthcoming.