Stamps Brass Quintet Class of 2020

Major: Instrumental Performance

Instrument: Trombone

Stamps Ensemble Name: Stamps Brass Quintet

Major: Instrumental Performance

Instrument: Trumpet

Stamps Ensemble Name: Stamps Brass Quintet

Cameron Zhen, a trumpet player from Coral Springs, Florida, is a member of the Stamps Brass Quintet in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. At age 9, Zhen started playing trumpet, which developed into a passion in high school that convinced him to pursue music as a career. As a student of J.P. Taravella High School, Cameron studied under Ral Estevens, who also attended the University of Miami, albeit in the 1980s. Throughout all four years of high school, Zhen received only the highest ratings, superiors, at all evaluations such as Solo and Ensemble and concert band festivals. He participated in the Broward All-County Band all four years as well. In his junior and senior years of high school, Cameron participated in the Florida All-State ensembles as a member of the Symphonic Band and the Symphonic Orchestra. He also participated in the Miami’s New World Symphony’s Side-By-Side Program in his last 2 years of high school. In summer 2017, between his senior year and starting college, Zhen participated in the Boston University Tanglewood Institute’s Young Artist Orchestra and studied under principal of the Metropolitan Opera, David Krauss. Zhen currently studies with former principal trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and current trumpet professor at University of Miami, Craig Morris.

Major: Instrumental Performance

Instrument: Trumpet

Stamps Ensemble Name: Stamps Brass Quintet

Profile:

Soon to be obtaining a BA in music and psychology from the University of Miami, Logan is from the small town of Glen St Mary, FL. Having attended Douglas Anderson School of the Arts in Jacksonville, FL for high school, Logan has performed in many various musical styles throughout his career such as jazz, classical, and pop, with a particular focus on musical theatre. Logan has attended many conferences and competitions in his career ranging from the College Band Director’s National Association Conference to the Savannah Jazz Festival. While having also been invited to attend the Jazz Education Network conference and the Midwest Clinic Conference in 2017. Some highlights include attending the Eastern Music Festival with the Stamps Brass Quintet as the chamber ensemble in residence, playing in the Highfield Philharmonic in Cape Cod, MA and Pit Orchestra for the College Light Opera Company in Cape Cod, MA and -on the psychology side -working as a research assistant for the Early Science Initiative research lab in the psychology department at UM. Now in his fourth year, Logan plans to continue playing music, but ultimately intends to eventually acquire a doctorate degree in psychology and open his own unique Psychology practice as a therapist and owner.

Major: Instrumental Performance

Instrument: Horn

Stamps Ensemble Name: Stamps Brass Quintet

Peter McFarland is a classically trained horn player from Yorktown, Indiana. He is a member of the Stamps Brass Quintet and is a Second-year Horn Performance major at the University of Miami, Frost School of Music, studying with Professor Richard Todd. At the Frost School of Music, McFarland has performed as a principal and sectional player with the Frost Symphonic Winds, Frost Wind Ensemble, and Frost Symphony Orchestra. During the summer of 2017, McFarland traveled with the Stamps Brass Quintet to Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina where the quintet served as a chamber group in residence, performing regularly for outreach events and formal recitals. While in Eastern Music Festival, he also performed Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 1 in D Major with the Eastern Faculty Orchestra as well as Sergei Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Suite A and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade as principal in the festival's student orchestras: the Eastern Symphony Orchestra and the Guilford Symphony Orchestra. As a high school student, McFarland was a regular member of the Indiana All-State Ensembles, and he performed 3 times with the All-State Honor Band, sitting principal twice, and 2 times with the All-State Orchestra, sitting principal once.  He has had a unique upbringing as the son of missionary parents in Papua New Guinea where he was taught horn by Ms. Marlene Schutter and his father, Mr. Bruce McFarland. When his family moved to Indiana during his sophomore year of high school, McFarland grew as a musician under the tutelage of Mr. John Higgins and Professor Gene Berger of Ball State University. 

Major: Instrumental Performance

Instrument: Tuba

Stamps Ensemble Name: Stamps Brass Quintet

Stefan Hopman, a tuba player from Sint Anthonis, Netherlands, is a member of the Stamps Brass Quintet in the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami. As a high school student, Stefan attended the Interlochen Arts Academy where he performed with the wind ensemble and orchestra. During the Summer of 2016, Stefan performed with the World Youth Orchestra. Stefan is an avid solo musician and has been a finalist in the International Euphonium and Tuba young artist solo competition, a semi-finalist in the International Tuba and Euphonium Conference Artist solo competition, and will be competing this year in the semi-finals artist division of The Leonard Falcone International Euphonium and Tuba Festival. Also, this year Stefan will be attending the Eastern Music Festival in Greensboro, North Carolina. Incredibly grateful to each of his teachers, Stefan has studied with Thomas Riccobono, Matthew Schlomer, Lucas Davey, and Calvin Jenkins; and is currently studying with Dr. Aaron Tindall. Outside of playing the tuba, Stefan enjoys building websites, spending time with family and friends, and working out at the gym.