trumpet teachers
Maximilian K. Ehrhardt - trumpet
Max attends University of Pacific where he is a Jazz Studies Major focusing on performance on trumpet in the Conservatory of Music - Instrumental Jazz Department. He has studied trumpet with Joe Mazzaferro, Nicholas Payton, Tom Perron, and Terrell Stafford. His formal studies began in the 6th grade at Oaktown Jazz Workshops in Downtown Oakland, under the instruction of Ravi Abcarian, Geechi Tayor, and Richard Howell. It was here he was able to hone the skills that would lead to his acceptance to Oakland School for the Arts, one of the most regarded and highlighted arts high schools in the Bay Area. He graduated from the Jazz Instrumental department under the direction of Dave Ellis. At a young age Max enthusiastically embraced learning music and becoming a multi-instrumentalist; he enjoys several brass instruments, as well as piano and music production, which add to his love of composition and arranging.
Jeff Peterson - Piano, TRumpet, Horns
Jeff is a graduate composition student at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music who started music when he was 4 when he took piano. He later picked up the trumpet and French horn until committing to composition. He is incredibly passionate about teaching music, as he began doing so at the end of high school where he volunteered his time teaching at the local elementary schools. He went on to work at MakeMusic Inc. after graduating with his Bachelor of Music in composition in 2016 and hosted his own radio show “Piano Spectrum” in 2017. His compositions also received recognition, winning the Sonoma Fine Arts Commission and the John Phillip Sousa Award. Jeff studied composition privately with two pupils of Nadia Boulanger (notable and famous music teacher): Dr. David Conte of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and Phelps Dean Witter, a 1950’s graduate of the Paris Conservatory. Among music, Jeff has been an avid handwriting enthusiast for over 10 years, mainly focusing on the history, manufacture, and collection of old fountain pens. You’ll be hard-pressed to find him without a fountain pen in his hand!