Associate Professor
Trumpet
School of Music
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803-2504
P: 225.578.2587
F: 225.578.2562
E: jwest@lsu.edu

James West (Associate Professor of Trumpet). Mr. West has been at Louisiana State University since 1978, and began his career teaching trumpet at Arkansas Polytechnic College in the fall of 1969. Mr. West is currently the state chairperson of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors in Louisiana. He is Principal Trumpet with the Baton Rouge Symphony, and was the conference chairperson for the 1991 meeting of the International Trumpet Guild, which was held at L.S.U. in May of 1991. Chamber music credits include the Norem Faculty Brass Quintet, the Acadiana Brass Quintet, the Berkshire Brass Quintet (at Tanglewood), the New Hyperion Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra, and the Mos Eisley Chamber Orchestra.