Jacinda Ripley

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Dr. Jacinda Ripley is the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Tarleton State in  Stephenville, Texas. She previously held collegiate positions at Saginaw Valley State, Alma  College, the University of Olivet, and Saint Xavier University. She has performed with the  Jackson, Lansing, Battle Creek, Flint, Adrian, Racine, and Saginaw Bay Symphonies and  was a trumpet fellow at the National Orchestral Institute in 2022.  

Dr. Ripley maintains a private studio and has presented masterclasses to studios across the  United States, recently including the University of North Texas, the University of Texas Austin, the University of Massachusetts- Amherst, the University of Utah, the University of  Iowa, and Illinois State Trumpet Studios. She has given presentations at the International  Women’s Brass Conference and serves on the editing team for the International Women’s  Brass Conference Noteworthy Newsletter.  

Ripley received her Doctorate from Michigan State University. She holds a Master of  Music in Performance from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Music in  Performance from the Eastman School of Music. Her primary trumpet teachers have  included Justin Emerich, Robert Sullivan, James Thompson, and Leah Schuman.