Trumpeter, pedagogue, and scholar Fred Sienkiewicz is both Director of Aural Skills area and chair of the (pre-collegiate) Blair Academy brass area at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music. Sienkiewicz performs as principal trumpet of The Jackson Symphony, a member of the Owensboro Symphony, this season is guest principal of the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra, and has appeared with ensembles across the Mid-South, including the Nashville Symphony, Nashville Opera, Nashville Ballet, Knoxville Symphony, Gateway Chamber Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic, Orchestra Kentucky, and INTERSECTION. As a soloist and recitalist, Sienkiewicz has appeared at colleges and universities throughout New England and the South, and has been featured with the Parthenon Chamber Orchestra, Nashville Philharmonic Orchestra, Brookline Symphony Orchestra, Lark Musical Society (Glendale, CA), King’s Chapel (Boston, MA), on Nashville Public Radio’s Live in Studio C, and at the International Trumpet Guild Conference.

A passionate exponent of musicianship training in the French solfège tradition, Dr. Sienkiewicz teaches aural skills at Vanderbilt University, trumpet in the Blair Academy, and is also among the first registered teachers of the Suzuki Method for trumpet. He created the trumpet area within the Vanderbilt Suzuki Program and currently serves as president of the Middle Tennessee Suzuki Association. Sienkiewicz’s previous appointments include chamber music at the prestigious Boston University Tanglewood Institute, ear training and theory at Austin Peay State University, and 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.