Iskander Akhmadullin

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Iskander Akhmadullin Assistant Professor, Trumpet
Member, Faculty Brass Quintet
DMA, University of North Texas
office: 213 Fine Arts Building
phone: 573-882-8021
fax: 573-884-7444
email: AkhmadullinI@missouri.edu
mailing address: 140 Fine Arts Building, Columbia, MO 65211

Iskander Akhmadullin, assistant professor of trumpet at the University of Missouri, holds degrees from the Kazan Music College, the Moscow State Conservatory, and the University of North Texas. His major teachers were Abbas Slashkin, Vadim Novikov, Leonard Candelaria, and Keith Johnson.

Dr. Akhmadullin has performed in several professional orchestras in Russia and the United States and can be heard on the Marco Polo, Naxos, Hugo, Klavier, and Delos labels. He has been a Co-Principal Trumpet with the Missouri Symphony Orchestra for several seasons.

Together with his wife, pianist Natalia Bolshakova, Dr. Akhmadullin has given recitals and master classes in the United States, Russia, and Germany. Active as both a recitalist and chamber musician, he has premiered a number of solo and chamber works and is continuously introducing new trumpet pieces by American composers to Russian audiences, while also presenting the American premieres of works from the Russian trumpet repertoire. Mr. Akhmadullin was among the first Russian trumpet players to perform on the baroque trumpet.

Professor Akhmadullin has been a member of the National Trumpet Competition Faculty and performed as a soloist and in groups at numerous festivals and conferences, including the Moscow Autumn Festivals, the Russian Trumpet Guild Conferences, Texas Music Educators Association, ABA, CBDNA, and WASBE conventions, and the International Trumpet Guild conferences.

Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Missouri, Professor Akhmadullin taught at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. He resides in Columbia with his wife and 21-month old daughter Anna Sophia.