Biography
Education:<br>D.M.A., Trumpet Performance and Literature, University of Illinois,
1989 <br><br>M.M. Trumpet Performance, University of Illinois, 1986 <br><br>B.M.,
Trumpet Performance, Florida State University, 1984 <br><br>Dr. Ulrich, Professor
of Music, has been the trumpet professor at Western Carolina University since 1989.
He received his Bachelor of Music Degree in Trumpet Performance from the Florida State
University where he studied with Bryan Goff. His Master of Music and Doctor of Musical
Arts degrees in Trumpet Performance and Literature were awarded from the University
of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he studied with Ray Sasaki and Michael Tunnell.
He has had additional lessons with Raymond Mase, George Vosburgh, Adolphe Herseth,
James Thompson, Vincent DiMartino, and Chrispian Steele Perkins.<br><br>Maintaining
an active performing career, Dr. Ulrich currently performs with the Asheville Symphony
Orchestra, the Asheville Symphony Brass Quintet, the Fortress Brass Quintet, and the
System 5 Brass Quintet. He has performed as an Extra Trumpet with the Montreal Symphony
and has formerly held positions in the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, Greenville
Symphony Orchestra (SC), Brevard Chamber Orchestra the Springfield Symphony Orchestra
(IL), the Champaign-Urbana Symphony (IL), Sinfonia da Camera (IL), and the Cedar Falls
Waterloo Symphony (IA).<br><br>Dr. Ulrich has performed countless recitals both as
a soloist and in brass quintets. He has performed and taught across the United States
and in Russia, Canada, England, Ireland, Wales, St. Barths, Italy, China, Germany,
Jamaica, Hungary, Romania, Greece, the Czech Republic, Costa Rica, Mexico, South Africa,
Belgium, and France. <br><br> For 30 years, Dr. Ulrich was the Artistic Director/First
Trumpet of the Smoky Mountain Brass Quintet, which gave its New York debut at the
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in June 2007. He is also a founding member of
the Fortress Brass Quintet and System 5 Brass Quintet, which tour nationally and internationally
each year. The Fortress Brass Quintet is comprised of five university brass professors
from five different universities across the United States. System 5 Brass is made
up of five top brass players/teachers from five different universities in the State
of North Carolina.<br><br>Over the years Dr. Ulrich has published over a dozen articles
in the International Trumpet Guild's Journal. He was for 10 years Public Relations
Director for ITG and the Competition Page Editor for the ITG Youth Website. He has
also served on the Membership Development Committee for ITG.<br><br>Dr. Ulrich is
the Executive Director of the Trumpet Festival of the Southeast and is an Artist/Clinician
for XO Professional Trumpets.<br>Dr. Ulrich has three won the James Dooley Award for
Excellence in Teaching Music (2002, 2008, 2015) and in 2013 he was awarded the prestigious
University Scholar Award from Western Carolina University.
Research Interests
Trumpet/Trumpet Education/Trumpet Performance
