Brent Flinchbaugh, owner/director
Mr. Flinchbaugh is currently Acting-Principal Trumpet of the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra for the 2018-2019 season and was previously Principal Trumpet of the orchestra from 2009-2012. Brent is also a member of the Lyric Brass Quintet and was a founding member of the Clipper City Brass Quintet. Orchestrally, Brent has also performed with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra under Yuri Temirkanov, the New World Symphony under Michael Tilson Thomas, as well as numerous other regional orchestras in the Baltimore/Washington area such as Bach in Baltimore, the Mid-Atlantic Symphony, the Lancaster Symphony, the Harford Chorale, the Handel Choir of Baltimore and the Young Victorian Theater Company. He has recorded and performed with numerous ensembles including the Clipper City Brass Quintet at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and Public Radio International's "Sing in Exultation: Carols from the Washington National Cathedral."
Co-recipient of the 2014 Howard County Music Educator of the Year award, Mr. Flinchbaugh is the Director of Bands at Clarksville Middle School in Howard County, Maryland. He has completed the Maryland Artist Teacher Institute certification program. In addition to public school teaching, Mr. Flinchbaugh maintains a large and successful private trumpet studio. Many of his past students are now scholarship-winning trumpet majors in college and have earned places in numerous GT and All-State ensembles in both Maryland and Pennsylvania. Prior to teaching at HCPSS, he was on faculty of St. Paul’s School, Boys’ Latin School, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Music.
Mr. Flinchbaugh is currently pursing his Master of Music degree in trumpet performance at the University of Maryland in the studio of Chris Gekker. He also attended the Peabody Conservatory and Temple University, earning degrees in trumpet performance and music education. On trumpet, his major teachers include David Bilger (Principal Trumpet, Philadelphia Orchestra), Ed Hoffman (Assistant Principal Trumpet, Baltimore Symphony), Langston Fitzgerald (Professor of Trumpet, Penn State University), Elisa Koehler (Professor, Goucher College) and Joe Burgstaller (Professor of Trumpet, Peabody Conservatory of Music) . In his spare time, Brent writes articles for the International Trumpet Guild Journal and is also an avid golfer. He lives in Columbia, Maryland with his wife Shoshana.
Co-recipient of the 2014 Howard County Music Educator of the Year award, Mr. Flinchbaugh is the Director of Bands at Clarksville Middle School in Howard County, Maryland. He has completed the Maryland Artist Teacher Institute certification program. In addition to public school teaching, Mr. Flinchbaugh maintains a large and successful private trumpet studio. Many of his past students are now scholarship-winning trumpet majors in college and have earned places in numerous GT and All-State ensembles in both Maryland and Pennsylvania. Prior to teaching at HCPSS, he was on faculty of St. Paul’s School, Boys’ Latin School, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Music.
Mr. Flinchbaugh is currently pursing his Master of Music degree in trumpet performance at the University of Maryland in the studio of Chris Gekker. He also attended the Peabody Conservatory and Temple University, earning degrees in trumpet performance and music education. On trumpet, his major teachers include David Bilger (Principal Trumpet, Philadelphia Orchestra), Ed Hoffman (Assistant Principal Trumpet, Baltimore Symphony), Langston Fitzgerald (Professor of Trumpet, Penn State University), Elisa Koehler (Professor, Goucher College) and Joe Burgstaller (Professor of Trumpet, Peabody Conservatory of Music) . In his spare time, Brent writes articles for the International Trumpet Guild Journal and is also an avid golfer. He lives in Columbia, Maryland with his wife Shoshana.