Dr. Mike Davison
Professor of Jazz and Trumpet
(804) 289-8281
mdavison@richmond.edu
Topics: Music (Brass Chamber), Music (Cuban), Music (Jazz, Latin Jazz), Music (Trumpet)
Davison holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, and the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Head of the jazz and brass programs at Richmond since 1986, he is president of the Virginia chapter of the International Association of Jazz Educators and on the board of the National Trumpet Competition. He has performed as a member of several groups, including the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra, Richmond Symphony Orchestra, and both the Canadian and Empire brass quintets. He has recorded numerous jazz and classical albums and written two transcriptions books on trumpeter Randy Brecker. He is also on the trumpet faculty at the International Arts Camp in Interlochen, Mich., and is in great demand throughout the country as a classical and jazz teacher and performer.
For more information on Davison, please visit the Richmond Research Institute.