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Waxhaw, North Carolina

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Age: 9+
Speaks French, English, German, Italian, Spanish
Teaching since 1976
PhD. Ethnomusicology

    About Dr. Arthur P.

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    Arthur as a professional trumpet player is a skilled musician in classical, commercial, and jazz idioms and has been one of L.A.’s and New York's first call trumpeters for commercial recordings, television and motion pictures, and live theater. He has contributed to albums for many popular artists, including Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, M.F.S.B, Coldplay, and Michael Buble. His television credits include every major awards show: the Grammys, the Emmys, the Academy Awards, the Golden Globes, and the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Arthur has been a trumpeter on the wildly popular television show, “Dancing with The Stars” for five seasons dating back to its inception in 2005. He was also lead trumpeter for the mega-hit show, “American Idol” in seasons 1-3. Arthur has appeared regularly on the soundtracks of hit television shows like “Family Guy”, “American Dad”, “King of the Hill” and many others.

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    Experience

    Motion Picture Credits (Sound tracks)

    May, 1978 - Present

    Universal, Disney, Goldwyn-Meyers, Warner Bros. etc.

    Arthur's motion picture credits include the soundtracks of over 300 major films, including a project with Grammy Award winning rap artist Kanye West for the soundtrack of Mission Impossible III. He can be heard on the soundtracks of such movies as “John Carter”, “Tin Tin”, “Glory Road”, “Just Like Heaven”, “Rush Hour”, “Planet of the Apes”, and animated hits like “Monsters, Inc.”, “Robots”, and “Cars”, as well as “Spider man”, “Big Fat Liar”, “Enemy of the State”, “Armageddon”, “Patch Adams”, and “Romeo Must Die,” to name a few. Arthur has also been first call trumpeter at Hollywood’s Pantages Theater, where he has played for Broadway hits like Mel Brooks’ “The Producers”, Disney’s “The Lion King”, “Wicked”, and “Hairspray”.

    Teacher, Professor and Clinician

    Dec, 1977 - Present

    Public schools and Universities

    Dr. Pugh has previously taught public and private school in Connecticut, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania. He’s been Dean of the Music dept. & Professor of Trumpet at Morris Brown College, on the graduate faculty of San Jose State (now San Jose University), served as its director of education outreach, has served as the Executive director of the University of the Performing Arts and currently the owner of "The Trumpeters Studio".

    Education

    Bachelor of Music Ed. & Special Ed.

    Aug, 1972 - Jun, 1976

    University of Hartford (Hartt School of Music)

    PhD. Ethnomusicology

    Sep, 1982 - Oct, 1986

    Harvard University

    Masters of Music

    Aug, 1976 - Jul, 1977

    West Virginia University

    Certifications

    Connecticut Teaching Certificate Music Ed. & Special Ed. (P-12)

    Feb, 1976

    Connecticut State Department of Education

    Georgia Professional Certificate in Music (P-12)

    Mar, 2014

    Georgia Professional Standards Commission

    Awards

    Various Albums from 1977 to 2014

    Aug, 2014

    Albums RIAA.

    Affiliations

    American Federation of Musicians

    Aug, 1968

    A labor union representing professional musicians in the United States and Canada. Founding in 1896 as the successor to the "National League of Musicians," the AFM is the largest organization in the world representing the interests of professional musicians.

    Society for Ethnomusicology

    Mar, 1985

    SEM is a U.S.-based organization with an international membership of approximately 1,750 individuals dedicated to the study of all forms of music from diverse humanistic and social scientific perspectives. We examine music as central to human experience throughout space and time, and explore its profound relationship to cognition, emotion, language, dance, visual arts, spiritual belief, social organization, collective identity, politics, conflict and peace, economics, the physical body, and mental health. Through SEM programs and the work of our individual members, we seek to advance academic and public understanding and appreciation of music as a cultural phenomenon of unlimited variety and as a resource that is fundamental to the well being of individuals and communities.

    Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America

    Jun, 1984

    Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America (also known as Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Phi Mu Alpha, or simply Sinfonia) is an American collegiate social[1] fraternity for men with a special interest in music. The fraternity is open to men "who, through a love for music, can assist in the fulfillment of [its] Object and ideals either by adopting music as a profession, or by working to advance the cause of music in America."

    American Musicological Society

    Feb, 1984

    The American Musicological Society is a membership-based musicological organization founded in 1934 to advance scholarly research in the various fields of music as a branch of learning and scholarship; it grew out of a small contingent of the Music Teachers National Association and, more directly, the New York Musicological Society (1930-1934).

    National Association for Music Education

    Jan, 1981

    Founded in 1907, NAfME is among the world’s largest arts education organizations. NAfME advocates at the local, state, and national levels; provides resources for teachers, parents, and administrators; hosts professional development events; and offers a variety of opportunities for students and teachers.

    International Trumpet Guild

    Mar, 1980

    The International Trumpet Guild is a non-profit organization founded in 1975 to promote communications among trumpet players around the world and to improve the artistic level of performance, teaching, and literature associated with the trumpet.

    Broadcast Music Inc.

    Jun, 1977

    One of three United States performing rights organizations, along with ASCAP and SESAC. It collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers, and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. In FY 2013, BMI collected more than $944 million in licensing fees and distributed $814 million in royalties.

    Languages

    Spanish

    Limited Proficiency

    French

    Limited Proficiency

    English

    Professional Proficiency

    German

    Limited Proficiency

    Italian

    Limited Proficiency

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