Biography
Dr. Dale White did his undergraduate work in music education at Maryville College in Tennessee, after which he completed a masters in trumpet performance at Yale University. He completed a doctorate in trumpet performance at the University of Minnesota in 1984. Dr. White has studied trumpet with Samuel Krauss of the Philadelphia orchestra, Robert Nagel of the New York Brass Quintet, David Baldwin of the University of Minnesota and Manny Laureano of the Minnesota Orchestra. He has studied conducting under Allan McMurray and Robert Reynolds. White has performed with the Toledo, Knoxville and New Haven Symphonies, as well as, the Minnesota Orchestra. He was principal trumpet of the Spoleto Festival Orchestral in Italy. White has also performed with the Dave Brubeck Quartet and the Lake Wobegan Brass Band. He appeared as a soloist on Minnesota Public Radio’s “Live from Landmark” and as a soloist in a variety of other regional recitals. He has been a brass clinician, performer, and conductor on numerous concerts in the central and eastern United States. He has recorded a compact disc entitled “Music for Trumpet and Piano”. He is presently the principal trumpet of the Saint Cloud Symphony, founding member of the Riverside Brass Quintet, member of the Paramount Jazz Orchestra, and is also trumpeter with the College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University faculty ensemble known as PASTICHE. Previously instructor of brass and bands at Ohio’s Heidelberg College, he is professor of brass and director of wind and brass ensembles at CSB/SJU.