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Kris Kwapis

Adjunct Lecturer in Music (Natural Trumpet, Cornetto)

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Email:
kkwapis@indiana.edu
Department:
Historical Performance Institute
Merrill Hall, MU301

Education

  • D.M.A., Doctor of Musical Arts, Stony Brook University, 2005
  • M.M., Master of Music, University of Michigan, 1997
  • B.M., Bachelor of Music, University of Michigan, 1993

Biography

Acclaimed for her ‘sterling tone’ in the New York Times, Kris Kwapis appears regularly as soloist and principal trumpet with period-instrument ensembles across North America, including Portland Baroque Orchestra, Early Music Vancouver, Pacific MusicWorks, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Chicago's Haymarket Opera Company, Bach Society of Minnesota, Callipygian Players, Bourbon Baroque, and Lyra Baroque, making music with directors such as Andrew Parrott, Monica Huggett, Alexander Weimann, Barthold Kuijken, Jacques Ogg, and Masaaki Suzuki. Her playing is heard on Kleos, Naxos, ReZound, Lyrichord, Musica Omnia and Dorian labels, including the 2013 GRAMMY nominated recording of Handel's Israel in Egypt, and broadcast on CBC, WNYC, WQED (Pittsburgh), Portland All-Classical (KQAC), Sunday Baroque and Wisconsin Public Radio.

Kris is the Director of La Voce di Gabriele and former Artistic Director of Spiritus Collective. A student of Armando Ghitalla on modern trumpet, with a BM and MM in trumpet performance from the University of Michigan, Dr. Kwapis holds a DMA in historical performance, and lectures on historical brass performance practice with recent appearances at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, University of Wyoming, University of Minnesota-Duluth, University of Louisville, Madison Early Music Festival, Pacific Lutheran University and Rutgers University.

Dr. Kwapis enjoys sharing her passion with the next generation of performers as a faculty member at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music Historical Performance Institute (teaching cornetto and baroque trumpet), is on faculty at Seattle's Cornish School of the Arts in addition to teaching at her home in Seattle and online. www.kriskwapis.com

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