Allan Dean, 2nd trumpet (1966 - 1985)
b. 1938, Mason City, IA.
Allan Dean is Professor of Trumpet (Adjunct) at the Yale University School of Music and is currently performing with Summit Brass and the St. Louis Brass Quintet. He is also active in the early music field with Calliope: A Renaissance Band and the NY Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble.
Dean was a member of the NYBQ for 18 years and freelanced in the New York concert and recording field for over 20 years before joining the faculty of Indiana University in 1982. Upon retirement of NYBQ in 1984, Dean joined the St. Louis Brass.
In 1989 he moved back to the northeast to join the Yale faculty. Dean performs and teaches each summer at the Mendez Brass Institute and Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norwalk. He has also appeared at the Spoleto and Casals Festivals, the Banff Centre and Orford Arts Centre (Canada), the Musike Blekinge (Sweeden), Puebla Instrumenta (Mexico) Morella Festival (Spain). He can be heard playing modern trumpet and early brass on over 80 recordings on most major labels, including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, Summit and others.
Affiliations
- Education: University of Iowa, Manhattan School of Music
- Yale University School of Music
- Mendez Brass Institute
- Norfolk Chamber music festival
- The New York Cornets and Sacbuts
- Yale Cornet and Sacbut ensemble
- Waverly Consort
- The Ensemble for Early Music
- The Smithsonian Chamber Players