University of Kentucky
Professor of Trombone at the University of Kentucky since 1983, Dale Warren maintains an active performing schedule. As a performer he has soloed twice with the Boston Pops Orchestra(as winner of a Boston Pops Concerto Competition) and performed as Principal Trombonist with the National Orchestra of South Africa(Pretoria, Johannesburg). Mr. Warren has also been a member of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Fellowship Orchestra. As a free-lance artist he has performed with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Empire Brass Quintet, the Denver Symphony, and numerous name artists. In chamber music Mr. Warren toured nationally and recorded for ten years as a member of the Top Brass Quintet. He also performed and taught on the faculty of the Empire Brass Quintet Seminar in Tanglewood, Massachusetts. Mr. Warren was a featured soloist with the U.S. Army Brass Band in the 1999 Eastern Trombone Workshop. He further stays active as a solo recitalist/clinician for Bach Trombones, a division of the Selmer Corporation.
Mr. Warren has previously taught at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi and Texas Wesleyan College in Fort Worth, Texas. His teachers include the following principal trombonists: Ron Barron, Boston Symphony Orchestra; Milt Stevens, National Symphony Orchestra; and John Kitzman, Dallas Symphony Orachestra. Mr. Warren also studied with Buddy Baker, University of Northern Colorado and former member of the big bands of Stan Kenton and Woody Herman, and Richard Bowles, University of Florida. Mr. Warren has a year of doctoral work in performance at Boston University, a master's degree in performance from the University of Northern Colorado, and a bachelor's degree in music education from the University of Florida.