Vincent Cichowicz was Professor Emeritus at Northwestern University, having served on the faculty since 1959 and as Professor of Trumpet from 1974 to 1998. He began his musical career at the age of 17 as a member of the Houston Symphony Orchestra, and after military service in the Fifth Army Band, returned to Chicago to attend Roosevelt University. In 1952, he became a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where he remained for 23 years. During this period he was a member of the Chicago Symphony Brass Quintet and was a participant in the Grammy Award winning Columbia recording of Giovanni Gabrieli’s Antiphonal Brass Music.
Appointed Music Director of the Millar Brass Ensemble in 1995, their collaboration can be heard on the Delos recording, Brass Surround. In 1997 Mr. Cichowicz received a special achievement award from the European Chapter of the International Trumpet Guild and was presented with the "Legends in Teaching Award" by Northwestern University. In 1999 he received the International Trumpet Guild Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Cichowicz has been a faculty member of the National Youth Orchestra of Canada since 1980 and the Brass Seminar program at The Domaine Forget in Charlevoix, Quebec since 1986. He has conducted numerous workshops and clinics throughout the United State, Canada, Europe and Japan and is regarded as one of North America's foremost experts in brass pedagogy.
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