bio

Trumpet Studio
Dr. Jay Coble, director

Jay Coble is Assistant Professor of Trumpet in the School of Music at the University of South Florida in Tampa. He received his undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University, his master's degree from Indiana University, and earned a doctorate from the University of Southern California. His teachers and main influences have been William Adam, Joe Phelps, Roy Poper, and Boyde Hood. Dr. Coble comes to the University of South Florida from Northern State University, where he taught trumpet from 1993 to 1998. Prior to that, he was a freelance trumpet artist in the Los Angeles area. Dr. Coble has a very diverse background and has experience playing in a wide range of styles. He has recorded for television shows such as the Tracy Ullman Show and The Simpsons, and has played on commercials for Infinity Cars, Alaska Air, Shell Oil, and Pepsi to name a few. Dr. Coble has played many shows, including artists such as Natalie Cole, Mel Torme, and Nancy Wilson, and has toured internationally with Buddy Rich and Tom Jones. He has also performed with the Burbank Symphony, Burbank Chamber Orchestra, Santa Monica Symphony, and the Antelope Valley Master Chorale. Since coming to the University of South Florida, Dr. Coble is musically active in the Tampa Bay area, performing in shows, recitals, and appearances with the Florida Orchestra and the Florida West Coast Symphony in Sarasota. He has recorded with jazz professor Chuck Owen's Jazz Surge and with jazz professor Jack Wilkins. He has been featured soloist with the USF Wind Ensemble and the USF Symphony Band. He has been a member of Tampa Bay groups SHIM, a free jazz group, and Bogus Pomp, a group dedicated to the music of Frank Zappa. During the summer of 1999 Dr. Coble was asked to go to China to teach and perform at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing and at the Conservatory of Music in Xi'An. Because of this successful trip, he was invited to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Shenyang Conservatory of Music in the summer of 2000. At each conservatory he taught for four days and performed solo recitals. He is also active as a clinician in the classical and jazz genres. He taught at the International Music Camp and has been teaching at the Yellowstone Music Camp since 1991. He enjoys performing new music, and has premiered works for the Tampa Bay Composers Symposium for the internationally acclaimed Bonk Festival. In the fall of 2002, Dr. Coble and USF trombone professor Tom Brantley released a CD titled Confluences which is music written or arranged for the trumpet and trombone. They have performed across the United States, including a performance at Carnegie Hall in 2003. Recently, Dr. Coble has judged for the International Trumpet Guild, at the Master's Division of the National Trumpet Competition, and for the 2004 Ellsworth Trumpet Competition. Another CD for Confluences is in the works, and well as continued touring for the group. Dr. Coble is a Yamaha performing artist.