Eric Brewer

Eric Brewer is the Director of the Music Program at Waynesburg University. He conducts the Symphonic Band and Brass Ensemble as well as teach individual brass lessons. Prior to Waynesburg University, Mr. Brewer was on faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and Kent State University in Ohio. For over a decade he served as the Principal Trumpet of the Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theater Company where he performed with artists such as Marnie Nixon, Joy Hermalyn, Faith Esham and Michael Ballam. 

As a trumpet soloist, Mr. Brewer has been featured with the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, New Music Ensemble at the Dana School of Music at Youngstown State University, and with the Utah Festival Opera Orchestra. He has recorded music for San Jose Chamber Orchestra and the Imperial Brass. Mr. Brewer has performed with numerous professional ensembles around the country, including the Dallas Wind Symphony, Wichita Falls Symphony, Plano Symphony, and Springfield Orchestra. 

A graduate of the Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory and the Yale School of Music, Mr. Brewer was a trumpet student of James Darling of the Cleveland Orchestra and Allan Dean of the New York Brass Quintet. He has studied conducting with Dwight Oltman, John DeMain, and is currently working on his Doctorate of Musical Arts at West Virginia University with Dr. Scott Tobias.