Trumpet Lessons

An experienced and versatile trumpeter, Dr. Megan Bailey is seasoned in all facets of trumpet playing from opera to jazz, wind band to solo repertoire. Megan currently serves as Visiting Assistant Professor of Trumpet at Northern Illinois University. Additionally, she maintains an active freelance performing schedule in the Chicagoland area and throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Megan has performed as a member of the Lone Star Wind Orchestra under the direction of Eugene Corporon since 2018 and with the Turtle Creek Chorale since 2017. She also serves as an associate member of the Dallas Opera Orchestra and has fulfilled substitute musician roles with Dallas Winds, the Monroe Symphony Orchestra, the Mississippi Symphony, and the Richardson Symphony.

Notable performances include appearances at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic in Chicago on three separate occasions as well as featured recitals at the Texas Music Educators Conference in 2017 and 2018 with the Dallas-based brass dectet, Center Stage Brass. Megan was an invited performer on the New Works Recital at the 2022 International Women’s Brass Conference. She was a featured soloist with the Lone Star Wind Orchestra in April 2023, and in early 2024 she returned to the orchestra pit with the Dallas Opera Orchestra in their production of Strauss’s Elektra. She can be heard on the GIA label Composer’s Collection discs featuring the music of John Mackey and Michael Daugherty as well as “Taylor Made,” “Inventions,” Discoveries,” and “Hope.”