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Erika Schafer, Assistant Professor

Dr. Erika Schafer

Office: Fine Arts Center 104
Email:Erika-Schafer@utc.edu
Phone: (423) 425-4641
Webpage: http://utc.edu/Erika-Schafer/index.htm

Assistant Professor

Instructor for Applied Trumpet
Classes:
  • Jazz Band
  • Trumpet Instruction
  • Trumpet Ensemble
  • Pep Band II
Director:
  • Jazz Ensemble
  • Trumpet Ensemble
Other responsibilities:
  • Assistant Director of Bands
Education:
  • D.M.A. Trumpet Performance, The Catholic University of America
  • M.M. Trumpet Performance, Yale University
  • B.M. Music Education, The University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Dr. Erika L. Schafer is in her fifth year as Assistant Professor of Trumpet and Assistant Director of Bands at UTC. She teaches trumpet lessons, directs the Jazz Band and Trumpet Ensemble, and is the Assistant Director of the Marching Band and Pep Band. She also performs regularly with the Chattanooga Symphony and the UTC Faculty Brass Quintet. She is a founding member of New Dischord, a Chattanooga-based performing ensemble featuring new music in collaboration with other artists. Furthermore, she is a frequent guest clinician and adjudicator. This includes serving as Associate Artist Faculty for the 2010 National Trumpet Competition, judging the 2009 MTNA Tennessee Brass Chamber Music and Young Artist Brass Competitions, and directing the second All-Middle Tennessee High School Jazz Band in 2009. Highlights of her time at UTC include hosting Jeff Coffin, saxophonist with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, and his group Mu'tet as well as Thomas Hooten, current principal trumpet of the L.A. Philharmonic and former principal trumpet of the Atlanta Symphony, as guest artists, and the performances of the UTC Trumpet Ensemble at the Trumpet Festival of the Southeast in 2012 and 2010.

Prior to her position at UTC, Dr. Schafer was a member of the United States Navy Band in Washington, D.C. where she was a featured soloist and performed with several chamber ensembles including the U.S. Navy Band Brass Quartet and the Joint Services Brass Quintet. She was also active in several orchestras in the D.C. area including the McLean Symphony Orchestra, the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra, the Folger Consort, and the Orchestra of the 17th Century. She is a former student of the Aspen Music Festival and School. Her primary teachers include Chris Gekker, Steven Hendrickson, Allan Dean, Louis Ranger, and Walter Chesnut.