Randall C. Tinnin

Dr. Randall Tinnin (Rutgers University, D.M.A., The Juilliard School, M.M., and the University of North Texas, B.M.) is Professor of Trumpet at the University of North Florida School of Music. Dr. Tinnin has appeared with Serafini Brillanti throughout the U.S., in the U.K. and France, and won the 2006 North American Brass Band Association Solo Contest. New York engagements include appearances with the Orchestra of St. Luke's, Queens Philharmonic, and WQXR-NY radio broadcasts.  Early music appearances include the American Bach Society, San Francisco Bach Choir, St. Bartholomew's Chamber Orchestra (NYC), the NYC chapter of the Early Music Foundation, New Trinity Baroque (Atlanta), Vox Ama Deus (Philadelphia), and the Spire Chamber Ensemble (Kansas City).  Dr. Tinnin's research has been published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal and the Journal for the Arts in Society.  An advocate for arts as an agent for change, Dr. Tinnin was the Director of the HOPE Schools of the Arts, an arts-based mentoring program serving students in under-resourced communities in Spanish Harlem and Chinatown in Manhattan, and is now the Director of the UNF Music Mentors Program, which sponsors music majors from the University of North Florida to offer private and small group music instruction to students in under-resourced communities in Duval County, Florida.