Rate My Professor Kenneth Jimenez

Prior graduate work includes a master’s lecture recital at the University of Minnesota Duluth, focusing on trumpet solos and brass works by composers such as Vejvanovsky, Neruda, Kail, Martinu, and Husa, under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Muehlenbeck-Pfotenhauer, as well as studies with Dr. Scott Meredith at the University of Wyoming. As a performer on trumpet, cornet, and cornopean, Jimenez has appeared in numerous VCSU faculty and student events, including the Music Faculty Showcase recital performing an arrangement of Cavatine d’Anna Bolena by Donizetti and Conversation for Cornet by Clare Grundman (September 2024), the Inaugural Recital honoring President Alan LaFave (2019), and a recital with VCSU musicians at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet (2019). His research interests encompass early-nineteenth-century French cornet solos by Schiltz, Fessy, Forestier, Gallay, and others, with plans to edit and publish these works. Jimenez has also innovated in brass pedagogy by designing and 3D-printing custom mouthpieces for historical trumpets and embouchure training devices, presenting on 3D printing in music at North Dakota State University (2014). He contributes to campus governance as an at-large member of the Institutional Review Board.