Dr. Karen Gustafson

America's Arctic Trumpeter

 Yamaha Performing Artist

 


 


Dr. Karen Gustafson is an internationally known trumpet performer and clinician having recently performed concerts and recitals in Italy, Canada, and across the United States. Other performance credits include the Bach Chamber Players of St. Paul, Minnesota Orchestra, Windsor Symphony, Phantom of the Opera Orchestra (Toronto), Enid Symphony, Niagara Symphony, and the Shaw Festival Orchestra. Dr. Gustafson serves as a guest artist in the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival and has performed at the UNESCO World Forum on Music, the International Women's Brass Conference, the World Saxophone Congress, and the International Trumpet Guild Conference. She is heard on NPR's 'Intermissions' as well as PBS and CBC Radio Canada. She has been guest soloist with several bands and orchestras in the United States and Canada and has given solo recitals in Alaska, Oklahoma, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois, Ontario, and Saskatchewan.


While an active performer, Gustafson has presented trumpet and band clinics at several universities and been on faculty at music festivals across the USA and Canada. She attended the Banff School of Fine Arts, Domaine Forget Music Academy, the Royal conservatory of Music (Toronto), and was a member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Dr. Gustafson earned a Bachelor of Music from the University of Victoria, a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the University of Minnesota. She has studied trumpet with Armando Ghittala, Louis Ranger, Ramon Parcells, Vincent Cichowicz, David Baldwin, and Gary Bordner, and wind band conducting with John Paynter, Jerry Luckhardt, and Craig Kirchoff.


Interested in studying trumpet with Dr. Karen Gustafson at the University of Alaska Fairbanks?

     Apply for Admission 

     Apply for a UAF Scholarship 

     Apply for a UAF Music Scholarship


 Links 

Borealis Brass Home

Brass Studios at the University of Alaska Fairbanks

International Trumpet Guild 

National Trumpet Competition

Yamaha


Sound Clip

Dr Gustafson performs Ewazen

 

For more information or for interested students, contact Dr. Gustafson at ffkg@uaf.edu