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2011 Great American Brass Band Festival to welcome child prodigy Natalie Dungey

April 25, 2011

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In 2011, the Great American Brass Band Festival welcomes to the stage 11-year-old child trumpet prodigy Natalie Dungey.

Although not even yet a teenager, Natalie has generated buzz around her abilities for years. Just before her 9^th birthday, Natalie advanced to the National Trumpet Competition Junior Division round in Fairfax, V.a., based on her audition recording of the first movement of the “Concerto for Trumpet” by Hummel. At the competition, she was featured in a master class recorded for Fox 5 News in Washington D.C.

She went on to win the competition the next two years, performing the Arutunian Concerto in 2009 and then the first movement of Tomasi Concerto in 2010.

Other performances include soloing with the University of Washington combined University and Campus bands, conducted by Eric Smedley & Vu Nguyen, “Prayer of Saint Gregory” with the Northwest Symphony conducted by Anthony Spain, “The Trumpeter’s Lullaby” with the Auburn Symphony lead by Stewart Kershaw, Del Staiger’s “Carnival of Venice” with the Sammamish Symphony under the baton of R. Joseph Scott, Mateo Messina’s “The Calvary” with the Bellevue Philharmonic conducted by Michael Miropolsky and Northwest Symphony.

Natalie’s interest in music goes back as far as she can remember. Her mother is a professional violinist and her father a trumpet teacher, band director, and NWSO's principal trumpet. As a toddler, she would sit on her father's lap, attending trumpet lessons and rehearsals for the church orchestra, grabbing the mouthpiece and playing any chance she got. She could be found dragging an old trumpet her dad gave her around the house and blasting away. She begged him to teach her, but, he refused, believing she was too young. Undeterred, Natalie assigned herself the first few pages of a method book.

After practicing them diligently, she put stars on the ones she could do well and again asked for her dad to teach her. Finally, at age 7 she began formal lessons with her dad, insisting that he teach her "just like his students." Natalie resides in Issaquah with her family and enjoys reading, school, nail polish, shopping (Lululemon!), doing crazy Yoga poses around the house, and playing with her friends.

For more information on Natalie, as well as the exciting weekend planned for the 2011 Great American Brass Band Festival, please review our website and social media links listed below. The Great American Brass Band Official Site: ttp://www.gabbf.org/ Official Blog: http://greatamericanbrassbandfestival.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/DanvilleGABBF

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