Events & Repertoire

SEBQ
of Iowa City
(www.sebq.info)

Randall Aitchison, horn
Randall Aitchison is Coordinator of Patient Satisfaction at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. As a horn player, he performs in area church and community ensembles. He resides with his wife and son (also a horn player) in University Heights.

Ken Ausman, tuba/trombone
Ken Ausman was born and raised in Sterling, Il. He studied Music Education and Tuba Performance at The University of Iowa from 1993 to 1999. He has been teaching private brass lessons at West Music in Coralville since 1998. He also works at the Coralville Hy-Vee as a Product Specialist and for I.T. Solutions as an Office Manager.

Ed Kottick, trombone/euphonium

Ed Kottick was brought up in Brooklyn, NY, where he was a trombone student of Simon Karasick. He played in New York’s National Training Orchestra under Leon Barzin while still a student at NYU. Subsequently, he was a member of the Gershwin Concert Orchestra under Loren Maezel, the New Orleans Philharmonic under Alexander Hilsberg, and the New Orleans Opera Orchestra under Renato Cellini. He free-lanced in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, while working on his Ph.D. in musicology, but abandoned the trombone in the early 1960s, when he began his academic teaching career. He returned to the instrument in 2007. During his 45 trombone-less years he continued to make music as a recorderist and a conductor.

Dennis Pedde, trumpet

Dennis Pedde holds Bachelor and Master of Music degrees in Trumpet Performance from the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, and a Master of Church Music degree with a major in Music Theory from Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, KY. He also completed all Recitals and Course work toward a Doctoral degree in Trumpet Performance and Pedagogy at the University of Iowa. He has studied Trumpet with Arnold Jacobs and William Scarlett, both formerly of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; Douglas Smith and Jerry Amend in Louisville, KY: and
with David Greenhoe at The University of Iowa. He teaches at Central College in Pella, IA, Kirkwood Community College, and his private studio. He plays principal trumpet with the Ottumwa Symphony Orchestra and the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band.

Scott Vogelgesang, trumpet

Scott Vogelgesang is a native of the Twin Cities. Scott moved to Iowa City in 1995 from Washington DC after a stint in the US Army. He studied trumpet and played in the jazz band, concert band, subbed in the orchestra, a jazz quintet and played polka gigs on the weekends at the University of Minnesota in Duluth. Scott works at the University of Iowa and loves to play his trumpet, flugelhorn, and piccolo trumpet in whatever musical venues will have him.