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Dr. Travis Heath is Professor of Trumpet at Northeastern Illinois University (NEIU) in Chicago, IL, where he teaches applied lessons, conducts the NEIU Wind Ensemble Ensemble, and is Director and Founder of the Chicago Brass Festival. 

 

Dr. Heath has played Principal Trumpet with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Chicago Sinfonietta, Lead Trumpet with the American Rhapsody Orchestra and is Principal Trumpet with Camerata Chicago.  His international tours include performances in Japan, England, Ireland, France, Italy, Czech Republic and Canada at prestigious musical festivals.  His debut solo recording, Point of Departure, was released by the Mark Records label to high acclaim. 

 

A fifth generation Floridian from Vero Beach, Dr. Heath won the 1995 “Florida Trumpet Festival Solo Competition” and performed frequently with the Orlando Philharmonic and Brevard Symphony Orchestra and commercially at Universal Orlando Resort and Walt Disney World.  Dr. Heath holds a DMA and MM from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, where he studied with Dr. Scott Whitener and William Fielder and received the John I. Bettenbender Memorial Performance Award for outstanding artistic achievement.  He holds a BM from the University of Central Florida where he studied with John Almeida.