Woodwinds Faculty

Bradley Bombardier – Saxophone
Office: Humanities 163
Office Phone: 726-7065
E-mail: bbombard@d.umn.edu

Bradley A. Bombardier received his BM degree in Saxophone and Bassoon from the University of Wisconsin-Superior, and his MM as a Woodwind Specialist from Bowling Green State University. Brad is employed as an instructor of woodwinds by ISD 709, and teaches privately. He has held the second bassoon chair in the Duluth-Superior Symphony since 1980, and is principal bassoonist and librarian for the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra. Brad is a founding member of the Bigtime Jazz Orchestra and the Lake Superior Saxophone Quartet. He has appeared as saxophone soloist with the DSSO, performing the Creston Concerto twice in 1997, and has performed the Dubois Concerto with the LSCO and the UWS Orchestra, with whom he has also appeared with his arrangement for saxophone of the Mozart Bassoon Concerto. At UMD, his responsibilities include applied saxophone, saxophone ensemble, saxophone master classes, and woodwind techniques.

Jefferson Campbell – Bassoon, Music History, Music Technology
Office: 243 Humanities
Office Phone: 726-8119
E-mail: jcampbel@d.umn.edu

Jefferson Campbell has distinguished himself over recent years as a solo, chamber and orchestral musician on the bassoon throughout the United States and abroad. Dr. Campbell has appeared as a soloist in California, Florida, North Carolina, Kentucky, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York, South Carolina and overseas in Berlin, Germany and Paris, France. As an orchestral musician, Dr. Campbell has held positions with orchestras in Kentucky, North Carolina, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, and Washington. In the summer of 2006, Jefferson Campbell was guest principal bassoon of the Chengdu Philharmonic Orchestra in Chengdu, China, where he was also invited to teach master classes on bassoon at the Sichuan Conservatory of Music. Recently he was invited to present master classes in bassoon at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional Boulogne-Billancourt, France in January of 2009.

His current chamber music projects include the Third Chair Chamber Players (NE) and the UMD Faculty Woodwind Quintet. Dr. Campbell is prominently featured as both a soloist and chamber musician on the recently released compact disc Nostalgia on the Innova label, featuring all of the music for bassoon by composer Justin Henry Rubin. He has recently completed a performance project featuring the commission and performance of three new works for bassoon premiered in Miami (FL), San Francisco (CA), and Duluth (MN), in 2010 as a result of funding received by an Imagine Grant from the McKnight Arts and Humanities Endowment of the University of Minnesota. His upcoming projects include a New York recital featuring new works for bassoon by American composers in 2011 and master classes and recitals with pianist Tracy Lipke-Perry and percussionist Gene Koshinski at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Regional Lyon in January of 2011.

Dr. Campbell is the Assistant Professor of Bassoon and Music History at the University of Minnesota Duluth, and has served on the artist faculty of Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lake, Michigan. Dr. Campbell been published in the Journal of the International Double Reed Society and presented and performed at the National Conference of the IDRS in 2003, 2006 and 2007. Jefferson Campbell holds a Bachelor of Music Education from Western Kentucky University, a Master of Music in Bassoon Performance and Chamber Music from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and the Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His primary teachers have been Cynthia Estill, C. Larry Long, Mark Popkin, Gary Echols and Dr. Albie Micklich. Dr. Campbell's website

Theodore Schoen – Department Head, Clarinet, Saxophone
Office: 239 Humanities
Office Phone:726-8279
E-mail: tschoen@d.umn.edu

Theodore Schoen currently teaches applied clarinet and saxophone at UMD. Dr. Schoen has performed, toured and recorded with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and has been a frequent performer with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, including playing on several of their recordings (Mahler's Symphonies No. 2, 6 & 7, Mozart's Requiem, and Strauss Opera Scenes). He has served as the Principal Clarinetist with the Atlanta Opera Orchestra and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as Bass Clarinetist with the Florida Symphony Orchestra and has performed with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra, Bellingham Festival Orchestra, Naples Philharmonic, Florida Orchestra, and the Jacksonville Symphony. He received his B.M. and M.M. degrees from the Juilliard School and his D.M.A. from Florida State University. His teachers were Stanley Drucker, Joseph Allard, and Charles Russo. An active chamber music soloist, Dr. Schoen has given solo recitals at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall, Zankel Hall and in St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk and Novouralsk, Russia. He also performed the Mozart Clarinet Concerto with the Ural State Philharmonic in Ekaterinberg. Dr. Schoen has recorded a solo CD, Clarinet Hive, on the Naxos label, which includes the world premiere of Evan Ziporyn's Hive and other works for clarinets with several prominent American clarinetists. In 2005, Dr. Schoen received the prestigious University of Minnesota McKnight Presidential Fellow Award.

Paul Schimming – Clarinet
Office: Humanities 152
Office Phone: 726-8248
E-mail:

Paul Schimming holds a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in clarinet performance from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, where he studied with Burt Hara and John Anderson. He previously received a Master of Music degree from Arizona State University and a Bachelor of Music degree from Kansas State University. He is an active clarinetist in the Twin Cities area, and has performed with the Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra, Green Bay Symphony Orchestra, St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra, Eau Claire Chamber Orchestra, Greater Grand Forks Symphony Orchestra, and with members of the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. He has performed throughout the United States and Ireland in solo and chamber music concerts, and is a member of RenegadeEnsemble, a Twin Cities new music ensemble dedicated to promoting the works of living composers.

In addition to teaching applied clarinet at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, Paul teaches applied clarinet and saxophone at Southwest Minnesota State University in Marshall, MN, and at St. Joseph School of Music in St. Paul. He has previously taught at Concordia University, the University of North Dakota and St. Cloud State University, and in the summers is on faculty at the International Music Camp in North Dakota.

Lorie Scott – Flute
Office: 221 Humanities
Office Phone: 726-7543
E-mail: lscott@d.umn.edu

Lorie Scott is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Minnesota Duluth. In addition to flute studio activities, she teaches music theory and performs with the faculty woodwind quintet. Dr. Scott was recently named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster in American Studies (music). Her edition of the Karg-Elert Caprices (Urmusik Edition) was a winner of the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition and was listed as ‘Editor's Choice' in Flute Talk Magazine. She will present a series of performances featuring her collection of arrangements of Edvard Grieg's Lyric Pieces in the upcoming school year. This project has received support from the Minnesota State Arts Board (Artist Initiative Grant) and through the University of Minnesota's Imagine Fund. Other projects and performances, including at the Banff Centre (2011), have been supported through various grants of the National Endowment for the Arts, Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, and the Iowa Arts Council. Dr. Scott is active in the Upper Midwest Flute Association and has adjudicated for the Minnesota State Arts Board, National Flute Association, and MidSouth Flute Society. She teaches and performs at the Five Seasons Chamber Music Festival in the summer and previously taught at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp. She serves as a reviewer for National Council on Undergraduate Research proposals and enjoys advising UMD students on UROP (Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program) and NCUR independent projects. Her flute teachers include Mary Karen Clardy, Carol Hester, and Jan Boland. She holds DMA and MM degrees (flute performance/theory minors) from the University of North Texas and a BA from Luther College in music and business management, summa cum laude. Business aside, she loves experimenting with food and f-stops and wandering around Northern Minnesota's land, lakes, and skies in various forms of season-appropriate transportation, often accompanied by her cocker spaniel, Dolce. Flute Studio Website

Laurie Van Brunt – Oboe
Office: Humanities 152
Office Phone: 726-8208
E-mail: lvanbrun@d.umn.edu

Laurie Van Brunt received her Bachelors of Music degree in oboe performance from the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and her MM in musicology from the University of Massachusetts and pursued further graduate studies in musicology at the City University of New York. She studied oboe/English Horn with Wayne Rapier, Laurence Thorstenberg, and Thomas Stacy. For 20 years she was Solo English Horn/Oboe with the Florida Symphony Orchestra and the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra before moving to Duluth in 1999. Currently Ms. Van Brunt teaches oboe at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and plays English Horn with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra and principal oboe with the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra.