Jason Huffman
jsnfmn at yahoo dot com
Education
2008 – Present
Boston Conservatory
Boston, MA
Master of Music in Composition
Composition studies with Jan Swafford, Andy Vores and Dalit Warshaw
2008 – Present
Private Trumpet Lessons with Steve Emery
1997 – 2002
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Oberlin, OH
Bachelor of Music
Majors: Trumpet Performance with Roy Poper (Associate Professor of Trumpet, Oberlin Conservatory; former Principal Trumpet, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and LA Opera; founding member, Modern Brass Quintet), Ryan Anthony (former Assistant Professor of Trumpet, Oberlin Conservatory; former member, Canadian Brass), and Al Couch (former Assistant Principal Trumpet, Cleveland Orchestra)
Composition with Richard Hoffmann, Randolph Coleman, John Luther Adams and Pauline Oliveros; single lessons with John Adams, Tan Dun and Louis Lane
Spring 2000 Composition Study abroad in Vienna, Austria with Richard Hoffmann
Coursework includes: Discrete Mathematics, History of Modern Art, History of Modern Architecture, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Schoenberg the Theorist, Schoenberg Seminar, Studio Skills for Composers
1997 – 1998
Private trumpet lessons with Alex
Wilson (former Principal Trumpet, Buffalo
Philharmonic Orchestra)
Performance Experience
9/08 – Present
New England Philharmonic
Utility Trumpet
Richard Pittman, Music Director
Boston, MA
9/08 – Present
Concord Orchestra
3rd Trumpet
Richard Pittman, Music Director and Conductor
Concord, MA
9/08 – Present
Boston Conservatory Large Ensembles
Various parts in Wind Ensemble, Orchestra and Brass Ensemble
Boston, MA
6/08 – Present
Mercury Orchestra
Principal Trumpet
Channing Yu, conductor
Cambridge, MA
5/08 – 8/08
Metropolitan Wind Symphony
Principal Trumpet
Lewis Buckley, Music Director
Natick, MA
9/07 – 6/08
Dudley
House Orchestra
Principal Trumpet
Drew
Schneider, Conductor 2004-2008
Cambridge, MA
9/07 – Present
Charles River Wind Ensemble
Principal Trumpet
Eric Hewitt, Music Director
Newton Center, MA
9/07 – 6/08
Harvard Wind Ensemble
Principal Trumpet
Thomas G. Everett, Conductor
Mark Olson, Assistant Conductor
Cambridge, MA
9/07 – 2/08
Lowell House Opera Orchestra
Trumpet (1st Offstage and Assistant)
Channing Yu, Music Director
Cambridge, MA
9/07 – Present
Substitute:
Longwood Symphony Orchestra – Jonathan McPhee, Music Director and Conductor
Newton Symphony Orchestra, James M. Orent, Music Director
Metropolitan Wind Symphony – Lewis
Buckley, Music Director
Bay Colony Brass – Jerry
Cadden, Music Director
Civic Symphony Orchestra – Max
Hobart, Music Director
Wellesley Symphony Orchestra – Max
Hobart, Music Director
5/07 – Present
Boston Repertory Orchestra
Principal Trumpet
William Shoucair, Conductor
Newton Center, MA
1999 – 2002
Oberlin College Community Winds
Principal Trumpet
John Knight,
Conductor
Oberlin, OH
1997 – 2002
Various performances in all conservatory ensembles with an emphasis on
the New Music Ensemble under conductors Louis
Lane, Tim
Weiss and Paul
Polivnick. Principal parts on works by Hindemith, Richard Hoffmann,
Mahler, Prokofiev, Huang Ruo, Ravel, Stravinsky, Xenakis, and others.
Commissioned works by student composers and played in solo, chamber and
large ensemble works in student composer concerts.
Employment
2/06 – Present
Harold J. Bursztajn, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and co-founder of the Program
in Psychiatry and the Law @ BIDMC Psychiatry of Harvard Medical School
Cambridge, MA
Research/Office Assistant
617-492-8366
Handle the daily flow of administrative duties in a busy forensic psychiatrist’s office including patient and court case billing, scheduling appointments, formatting and transmission of documents, and logging mail and phone contacts; conduct sensitive and confidential communications with patients, attorneys, and other professionals; compose and edit correspondence; access and format electronic databases and maintain electronic and paper files; maintain advertising accounts and listings and conduct outreach to prospective clients and publications.
9/05 – 2/06
Professional Staffing Group:
Amicas, Inc.
Brighton, MA
Office Manager/Receptionist
617-779-7878
Answer and screen phones; greet visitors; order and stock supplies; handle shipping and receiving of packages; schedule conference rooms and projector sign outs; maintain printers, copiers and kitchen appliances; secure new vendors for document shredding and limousine services; and help with investor relations, marketing and sales projects as needed.
Reach out and Read
Somerville, MA
Data Entry
617-629-8042
Data Entry and filing into Access database, gather from web and clean data for filing and data entry purposes.
12/04 – 9/05
City Express
Boston, MA
Bike Messenger
617-350-4000
Delivery of time sensitive documents to and from a wide variety of businesses including many of the most prominent law firms, architects and engineers in the Boston metro area
9/04 – Present
Antiques on Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA
Administrative/Cashier
(617) 234-0001
Customer service, balance incoming finances, ordering of office equipment and supplies, maintain relationships with dealers both within the coop and external to it, serve as the hub of communications between the 100 dealers of the coop and the store owners and employees
3/04 – 8/04
Boston Public Library
Boston, MA
Digital Music Archivist
(617) 536-5400
8/02 – 8/04
Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson and Abbott
Boston, MA
Coordinator
(617) 423-1700
Maintain confidentiality of sensitive documents, design of forms for interoffice use, assisting architects with various chores; maintaining and ordering of office equipment and supplies; filing of library materials and architectural documents; coordination of communications within 200 employee architectural office including handling of mail, faxes, drawings and interoffice communications
9/00 – 5/02
Oberlin College Student Union
Oberlin, OH
Pool Hall Attendant
(440) 775-8565
Organization of tournaments, advertising, planning of various Student Union events (parties, concerts, speakers) in addition to work within the pool hall
Summers of 01-02
Borders Books and Music
Richfield, MN and Newton, MA
Music/Book Seller, Cashier
(612) 869-6245
Customer service with specialty in classical music, Shelving, Special Orders, Register, setup of displays
Skills
Typing: 75+ WPM, Windows (3.1, 95, 98, 2000, ME, XP),
Mac OS X, Linux (Red Hat, SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian), Microsoft Word, Access,
Excel, Powerpoint, Filemaker Pro, ABBYY Finereader, Dreamweaver (Advanced),
Finale 2008 (Advanced), Sibelius, Acrobat, Pro Tools (Advanced), Sonar,
Digital Performer, POV-Ray, Photoshop, GIMP, currently learning PHP and
MySQL
Language: German
Interests
Artistic: Music (Classical, Jazz, Rock/Pop, Folk) Composition
and Performance (Trumpet, Piano), Sound Recording and Mixing, Architecture,
Internet Radio, Drawing, Photography, Foreign/Art Cinema, Anime, Performance
Arts, Furniture Building and Design, Cooking
Intellectual: Intellectual Property, Discrete Mathematics
and Logic, Philosophy, Modding and restoration of vintage and current
electronics and video game systems
Physical: Mountain Biking, Rock Climbing, Urban Exploration