Dirk Koman, Trumpet

Dirk is an active freelance trumpet player, teacher and band director all over San Diego. His experience includes principal trumpet of the San Diego Comic Opera Orchestra, an extra with the San Diego Symphony, San Diego Opera and Chamber Orchestra. Dirk has performed with orchestras at the Aspen Music festival and played with the Bolshoi and San Francisco ballet companies. He is brass choir director at La Jolla Presbyterian church, band director at USD HS and Marian Catholic High School, helped establish and directed the Coronado Community Band. A graduate of the New England Conservatory and USIU School of Performing Arts, Dirk is an Associate Professor at the University of San Diego, performer, leader and program director for Young Audiences, Inc. and teaches privately.

Charles Lauer, Trumpet

Charles has performed with the San Diego Symphony, Opera, Ballet, Starlight Opera, and the Seaport Village Band. He holds a Master of Music degree from the University of Portland and played with the Portland Symphony and Brass Quintet for four years. Charles also toured with the Metropolitan Opera national company and played with the San Francisco and Bolshoi Ballets when they were on tour in San Diego. He taught at Lewis and Clark College and now is the trumpet coach at Mt. Carmel High School.

Steve Rumbold, French Horn

Steve has been musically active in San Diego and North County since moving to Vista in 1980. In addition to Classic Brass, Steve has played in the SDSO Summer Pops, the SD Chamber Orchestra, and numerous musical theater pit orchestras. He is also a well established musical educator and conductor, currently teaching at Tri-City Christian School and Mira Costa College in Oceanside. He has attended the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cal-State Northridge and San Diego State University.

James Prindle, Trombone

One of San Diego's busiest trombonists, Jim has performed with the San Diego Symphony and Opera, Ballet and Chamber Orchestras, and musical theater orchestras at the Civic Theater, the Old Globe and Starlight Bowl. Originally from Spokane, he has also lived and worked in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Caracas, Venezuela. He is the low brass clinician for all three Poway high schools and has taught privately for over twenty-five years. Jim holds degrees from Gonzaga University and California State University at Northridge.