John Kitzman
Southern Methodist University
Retired Principal Trombone of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
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Retired Principal Trombone of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra
www.smu.edu/Meadows/AreasOfStudy/Music/Faculty/KitzmanJohn

Kitzman has been on the faculty of the International Institute at Round Top, teaching there for more than 20 years. He was also on the faculty of the Teton Music Festival.
He has soloed with the Dallas Symphony, the Amarillo Symphony the Meadows Symphony and other ensembles. Kitzman has been a clinician and recitalist at the International Trombone Festival. He has given master classes at the Manhattan School in New York, University of Indiana, Illinois, the Cleveland Institute, University of New Mexico, the University of Texas and Glenn Gould Academy in Toronto. Kitzman has been a guest faculty member at Baylor University and the University of North Texas. He has been on the faculty of Southern Methodist University since 1974. His former students sit in major orchestras including the Dallas Symphony, the Toronto Symphony, The Buffalo Symphony, the Kennedy Center Orchestra. Several of his students are now Professors of Trombone in universities and colleges across the country.
John Kitzman studied with Henry C. Smith of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Ed Herman of the NY Philharmonic and Per Brevig of the Metropolitan Opera. While at student at the Tanglewood Music Festival in 1968 he won the Spaulding Prize for the Outstanding Instrumentalist of the season.