John Thiessen
Music
Title
Adjunct Faculty
Specialty
Baroque Trumpet
Teaches
College
Historical Performance
About
Historical Performance faculty member John Thiessen, born in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada, has been principal trumpet player for Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and American Classical Orchestra. He received his bachelor’s in trumpet performance from Eastman in 1987 and his master’s in historical musicology from King’s College, University of London, in 1990. Thiessen became a Juilliard faculty member in 2009.