DANIEL KELLY, a native of Charleston, SC, is professor of trumpet at East Texas A&M University. He joined the ETAMU faculty in the fall of 2010 after serving on the faculty of Indiana State University and the University of Southern Mississippi.

Dr. Kelly is principal trumpet of the Colorado MahlerFest in Boulder and the Classical Music Festival (Austria), a member of The Dallas Winds, a board member and frequent collaborator with Astraios Chamber Music, and has performed with the Charleston Symphony, Dallas Symphony, Plano Symphony, Allen Philharmonic, Northeast Texas Symphony, Mobile Symphony and Opera Orchestras, Gulf Coast Symphony, Mississippi Symphony, Meridian Symphony, Sinfonia Gulf Coast, Terre Haute Symphony and Brass Quintet, Philharmonia à Vent, Columbus Brass, The Prairie Ensemble, Champaign-Urbana (IL) Symphony and Brass Quintet, Baroque Artists of Champaign-Urbana (BACH), Peoria Bach Festival Orchestra. He is also a founding member of The Ambassador Brass Quintet, which has presented concerts and workshops in the US, Thailand, Vietnam and China. Dr. Kelly has presented recitals and master classes at the Campina Grande International Music Festival (Brazil) and Shenzen Conservatory (China). Recent solo performances include Joseph Haydn’s trumpet concerto with the Classical Music Festival Orchestra in Schloss Esterhazy (Eisenstadt, Austria) and Deborah Pritchard’s Seven Halts on the Somme with the Colorado MahlerFest Orchestra.

Dr. Kelly holds a BS in trumpet performance from Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, and a MM and DMA from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His principal teachers include Michael Ewald, Ronnie Romm, Ray Sasaki, and Richard Steffen. He has been designated a Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM) by the Music Teachers National Association and is a member of the Music Teachers National Association, the Texas Music Teachers Association, the College Music Society, the International Trumpet Guild, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, and the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.

Dr. Kelly is a Yamaha Performing Artist/Clinician.