Awards for Trumpet Professor

Assistant Professor of Trumpet Eric Millard has received recognition in two recent music competitions: the King’s Peak International Music Competition and The American Prize.

Millard won first place in trumpet in the brass division, ages 23 and up, of the King’s Peak International Music Competition. The virtual competition is open to individual vocal and instrumental musicians and small ensembles of all ages (five to adult) and from anywhere in the world. Millard submitted a live, unedited recording of the Concerto for Trumpet by Estonian composer Eino Tamberg from a March 2020 recital performance at the University of Akron in Ohio. The submission was adjudicated by an international panel of professional soloists.

Millard was also named a finalist for The American Prize in the Instrumental Solo Division (professional division). The American Prize is an annual series of non-profit national competitions in the performing arts that provides professional adjudication, recognition, and cash awards for the best recorded performances by ensembles and individuals in the United States at the professional, college/university, church, community, and secondary school levels. For this competition, Millard recorded the first movement of the Trumpet Concerto, Op. 18, by German composer Oskar Böhme and Centennial Horizon by American composer Kevin McKee.