Trumpeter, pedagogue, and scholar Fred Sienkiewicz is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Musicianship at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music and a performs as a regular member of both The Jackson Symphony and the Owensboro Symphony Orchestra. He has appeared with ensembles across the Mid-South, including the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, Nashville Ballet, Knoxville Symphony, Gateway Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra Kentucky, Evansville Philharmonic, and INTERSECTION. As a soloist and recitalist, Sienkiewicz has appeared at colleges and universities throughout New England and the South, and has been featured at King’s Chapel in Boston, on Nashville Public Radio’s Live in Studio C, and at the International Trumpet Guild Conference.
A passionate exponent of musicianship training, Dr. Sienkiewicz teaches classroom ear training and solfège at Vanderbilt University, and is also among the first registered teachers of the Suzuki Method for trumpet. He has both in-person and online studios of Suzuki trumpet students and also helps students of all instruments on cultivating their musicianship skills through private solfège lessons. Sienkiewicz has previously coached chamber music and trumpet for the prestigious Boston University Tanglewood Institute, taught ear training and theory at Austin Peay State University, and served as trumpet faculty for Gordon College (MA), Keene State College (NH), and Plymouth State University (NH).
Sienkiewicz earned degrees at the University of Massachusetts (B.M.), the New England Conservatory of Music (M.M.), and Boston University (D.M.A.), studying trumpet in the studios of Eric Berlin, Charles Schlueter, Terry Everson, and Eric Ruske, interpretation with conductor Benjamin Zander, ear training and solfège with Dr. Gary Karpinski, Dr. Larry Scripp, and Marianne Ploger, and studied Suzuki pedagogy with Ann-Marie Sundberg. His doctoral dissertation from Boston University is the first English-language investigation of the life and music of Soviet Armenian composer Alexander Arutiunian.