Joe Brausam
Lessons ~ Freelance Musician ~ Arrangements and Transcriptions
Joe Brausam is a freelance horn player and music educator, holding a Masters in Conducting from Messiah College and a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from The College of New Jersey. His primary instrument is the french horn and he is also proficient in all other major brass instruments. He studied under horn player Kathy Mehrtens at The College of New Jersey and also studied at Towson University under Joy Brannigan. Joe currently plays in several ensembles and serves as an Assistant Conductor with the Toms River Multigenerational Orchestra.
Joe has also performed in a variety of ensembles and musicals for schools and community and professional theatre companies:
Joe also has experience in arranging and transcribing music for various ensembles such as solo instruments, concert bands, brass ensembles, woodwind quintets, and flute ensembles.
Joe will teach private lessons in your home for:
Joe has also performed in a variety of ensembles and musicals for schools and community and professional theatre companies:
- Philadelphia Wind Symphony
- Colts Neck Community Band
- South Jersey Area Wind Ensemble
- South Jersey Pops Orchestra
- The College of New Jersey Orchestra and Wind Ensemble
- New York Opera Exchange - 2014 Production of La Traviata
- The String Orchestra of Brooklyn
- Surflight Theater - 2013 Production of Les Misérables, 38 performances
- Exit 82 Theatre
- Greater Princeton Youth Orchestra
- Blawenburg Band
- Garden State Philharmonic
- Phoenix Productions at the Count Basie Theater (Rogers and Hammerstein's "The King and I")
- Spring Lake Community Theater ("The Secret Garden")
- Musical productions at Allentown High School, Robbinsville High School, Central Regional High School, Lacey Township High School, Pond Road Middle School, Hillsborough High School, Rancocas Valley High School, and other schools
Joe also has experience in arranging and transcribing music for various ensembles such as solo instruments, concert bands, brass ensembles, woodwind quintets, and flute ensembles.
Joe will teach private lessons in your home for:
- French horn, all levels
- Trombone and Baritone, beginner and intermediate students
- Trumpet, beginner students
- Music theory, through college level material