Dr. Grant Peters

Grant S. Peters is Professor of Music at Missouri State University, where he teaches applied studio trumpet and is the brass area coordinator. He currently serves as President of the International Trumpet Guild. Prior to his appointment at Missouri State, he served as co-principal trumpet of the Orquesta del principado de Asturias in northern Spain (1992). During the 1989 season, while a member of the Columbia Artists Management ensemble Dallas Brass, he recorded the album A Merry Christmas with Brass for the Word Label. His primary research focus is new works for the trumpet by American composers, and has numerous premiere performances at ITG conferences.

He has recorded three solo CDs of new works for trumpet with piano, organ and wind ensemble, and has performed in solo and chamber settings in Canada, Spain, Poland, England, Sweden, Thailand, Russia, Australia, Mexico and the Czech Republic. His students have been named as finalists in the ITG Solo Competition and recipients of ITG Conference Scholarships. In 2011 he was named Host of the Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Solo Competition, held at Missouri State University.

Peters holds the B.M.E. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the M.M. and D.M.A. degrees in Trumpet Performance from the University of North Texas. His principal teachers include Dennis Schneider and Leonard Candelaria. Peters is a clinician/artist for Schilke Trumpets.