trumpet
Professor (Adjunct) of Trumpet. Allan Dean plays trumpet with Summit Brass, St. Louis Brass, and the Yale Brass Trio. In the field of early music, he was a founding member of Calliope: A Renaissance Band and the New York Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble. A member of the New York Brass Quintet for eighteen years, he was a freelance concert and recording artist in New York City for more than twenty years.
He has served on the faculties of Indiana University, the Manhattan School of Music, the Hartt School, and the Eastman School. In 1988 Professor Dean joined the faculty of the Yale School of Music, where he coaches brass chamber music and directs the Yale Cornet and Sacbut Ensemble in addition to teaching trumpet. He performs and teaches each summer at the Mendez Brass Institute and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival in Norfolk, Connecticut. He is a frequent soloist with Keith Brion’s New Sousa Band. He has also appeared at the Spoleto and Casals festivals, the Banff Centre (Canada), the Orford Arts Centre (Canada), Musiki Blekinge (Sweden), the Curitiba Music Festival (Brazil), and the Morella Festival (Spain).
Mr. Dean has played both modern trumpet and early brass on more than eighty recordings on most major labels including RCA, Columbia, Nonesuch, and Summit. On early instruments he has recorded with Calliope, the New York Cornets and Sacbuts, the Waverly Consort, the Ensemble for Early Music, and the Smithsonian Chamber Players.