Thursday, March 29, Wiff Rudd, professor of trumpet at Baylor University, gave a guest trumpet recital in the Ralph R. Pottle Auditorium, and he was accompanied by colleague and assistant professor of piano, Dr. Kae Hosoda-Ayer.
Rudd, a native of San Antonio, has been teaching at Baylor since 2002 and is part of Rhythm & Brass. Rudd founded the group in 1993, and since then the group has recorded multiple critically acclaimed records.
“This is not my first time at Southeastern. I play with a group called Rhythm & Brass, and we’ve played at Fanfare a couple of times. When I got here, I just drove up to school and I knew right where to go, I love it,” Rudd said.
The jazz group Rhythm & Brass takes their influences from the likes of Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Johann Sebastian Bach and Duke Ellington. They have performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, and have traveled internationally to Saudi Arabia, Canada and Japan.
Rudd was also the associate professor of music at the University of Arkansas from 1998-2002 and was the principal trumpet in the North Arkansas Symphony Orchestra.
According to Logan Pace, instructor of trumpet at Southeastern, Rudd’s style can best be described as classical soloist style. Rudd opened with