Introduction
Hello! My name is Neal and I work as a teacher and musician performing classical, jazz, and popular music. I am passionate about music and aim to share the things that make it so special to me with the people that I meet in life. I am originally from Philadelphia, PA and moved to San Francisco, CA in 2019 to work as a middle school band teacher before eventually ending up in Chicago, IL, where I live now.
Education
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Temple University
- August 2014/December 2018 Bachelor's Degree in Music Education, Trombone Performance
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Northwestern University
- September 2022/June 2024 Master's Degree in Trombone Performance
Rating
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Middle School Band Teacher
Big Willie was my middle school band teacher. He always told us that we were wasting “five seconds of his precious time”. He also got a buzz cut and likes the trombone. He also canceled our annual band trip to disneyland 🙁 . Despite these bad things, he let us play Algorhythms by Gary Fagan, which is my favorite music ever BUT he didn’t let me play first trumpet. Also, he has a blue snowball microphone (which is cool). He had a marble jar that he locked in his office (which he shared with the Jazz teacher). He would hoard his marbles from us and taunt us whenever we couldn’t play the incredibly difficult song, Algorhythms by Gary Fagan, which was NOT COOL. Also when I asked him if we could play “seven nation army” and the USSR anthem he said no. In conclusion, Big Willie is my number one OP and is kinda fruity.
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