UW-River Falls

Rick Gaynor

Lecturer of Music

Rick Gaynor

Lecturer of Music
Applied Trombone and Euphonium, Trombone Choir, Brass Ensemble, Music Appreciation

M.M., Cleveland Institute of Music
B.S., University of Wisconsin-River Falls

Office Phone: 715-425-3177
e-mail: richard.gaynor@uwrf.edu

Rick Gaynor. instructor of Trombone/Euphonium, also directs UWRF Brass Ensemble, Trombone Choir, and teaches Music Appreciation at UW-River Falls. He received his degree in Music Performance from UW-River Falls where he studied with James Gauthier and David Herring. He received his Master’s degree in Trombone Performance from the Cleveland Institute of Music where his teachers included Cleveland Orchestra trombonists Ed Anderson and Tom Klaber. He also spent a summer participating in the Aspen Music Festival in Aspen, Colorado where he studied with Per Brevig of the Metropolitan Opera and the Juliard School (New York City.)

Mr. Gaynor is an active performer in the Twin Cities area. He has performed hundreds of concerts with the Minnesota Orchestra and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (two of this country’s leading ensembles.) He has performed in top Broadway musicals, including nearly 150 performances of "Phantom of the Opera".

Mr. Gaynor has performed under some of the world’s leading conductors including: Edo de Waart, Roger Norington, Mark Wigglesworth, Henry Charles Smith, Eiji Oue, David Zinman, Robert Shaw, Roberto Abbado, Helmut Rilling, Richard Bonynge, Emmanuel Plassin, Marco Quidarini, Daniel Harding, Hans Vonk, Christopher Hogwood, Andreas Delfs, Hugh Wolff, and Bobby McFerrin.

Mr. Gaynor has performed with some of the world’s leading musicians and entertainers including; Luciano Pavarotti, the Three Tenors, Charlotte Church, The Temptations, Moody Blues, the Dallas Brass and The Canadian Brass. He has been a Featured Soloist with the UW-River Falls Wind Ensemble, The Phipps Center Orchestra, many area high school bands, the International Trombone Association Conference and a Clinician with the International Tuba/Euphonium Conference.

Mr. Gaynor can be heard on numerous recordings including the Intergalactic Contemporary Ensemble’s (I.C.E.) "I Dig", Innova 548. He has performed at some of the world’s leading venues including: London’s Queen Elizabeth Hall, as a part of the London Jazz Festival; and New York’s Carnegie Hall with the Minnesota Orchestra.

In the tradition of Emory Remington’s Eastman Trombone Choir, I encourage participation in the UW-River Falls Trombone Choir. We perform on Brass Concerts and other special occasions.

You can contact Rick Gaynor by email at richard.gaynor@uwrf.edu for more information (type UWRF in the subject line please.) Mr. Gaynor can also be contacted at UWRF by phone at 715-425-3177.