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Dr. Thompson serves as Professor of Music for the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where he has been on the faculty since 1979. He is hornist with the Lyrique Quintette, a woodwind quintet in residence at the university as well as Boston Mountain Brassworks, the university's resident brass quintet. He also serves as principal horn of the North Arkansas Symphony and the Boston Mountain Chamber Players. He appears regularly with the Arkansas Symphony, Pinnacle Players and numerous other regional orchestras.
Dr. Thompson has appeared as soloist with the National Orchestras of Bolivia and Thailand, the North Carolina Symphony, the Music Festival of Arkansas, Pinnacle Players (Little Rock, AR), the North Arkansas Symphony, the Fort Smith (AR) Symphony, the Southeast Kansas Symphony and the orchestras of the Universities of Arkansas, North Carolina and Wisconsin.
He has been featured as guest soloist and teacher, and with chamber and orchestral ensembles, in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Thailand, and throughout Europe and the United States.
Dr. Thompson serves on the faculty of Sequoyah Music Festival, a summer chamber music event for junior high through college age students held each summer in Fayetteville, Arkansas. He also performs and teaches each summer at Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan. Faculties previously served on include the University of Wisconsin, the University of North Carolina, and numerous summer music camps and festivals including the Music Festival of Arkansas. He has served guest residences at dozens of schools and universities including the Queensland Conservatorium of Music (Brisbane, Australia), the National University of Bolivia (La Paz), the Instituto de Bellas Artes (Santa Cruz, Bolivia), and several universities in Thailand.
Dr. Thompson performed in recital during the 2nd International Brass Congress held in Bloomington, Indiana in 1984 as well as the College Music Society National Meeting held in Nashville in 1985. He has appeared in recital at 6 previous International Horn Workshops and numerous Midwest Horn Workshops. He was a finalist in the 1979 Heldenleben International Concerto Competition, held in Cleveland, Ohio.
Dr. Thompson's horn students have enjoyed wide-ranging success as players and teachers. Former students have gone on to attend some of the country's most prestigious graduate schools and summer festivals and to obtain positions with numerous professional orchestras, university faculties, and public school music programs. His students regularly place well at solo and chamber music competitions both on campus and nationwide.
MUSC 340
479-575-5762
tthomp@uark.edu
