Discography
Dean Boysen
Artistic Director, Trumpets and Flugelhorn, Composer and Arranger
Dean Boysen is a trumpeter, composer, and arranger who serves as Artistic Director for the BRAZZISSIMO! 10-piece brass ensemble. Throughout his twenty-four year association with the ensemble Dean has contributed his compositions and arrangements, thus adding to the group’s unique identity. In addition to brass dectet music, Dean also composes and arranges for the brass quintet and trio, woodwind ensembles, big band, and orchestra.
Although just retiring from a thirty-six year technical career with Xerox Corporation, Dean had continued to perform professionally throughout these years as an in demand freelance and recording artist. Mr. Boysen has recorded with many popular national recording artists and side-manned for various shows such as the The Bay Area Music Awards – Bammies (1979 – 1982), and in concerts including The Four Tops, The Temptations, Sylvester, Huey Lewis, Third World, Dr. Loco’s Rockin’ Jalapeño Band, etc. (Discography below)
Dean now enjoys concentrating his time on music performance, composing and arranging, hiking within the East Bay Regional Parks, motorcycling, and playing chess.
Trumpet Instruction:
(1979-1984) Claude Gordon – trumpet virtuoso and pedagogue
(1978) Carl Leach – C.G. protegè and former Bay Area Circle Star Theater and Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel lead trumpeter
(1977) Marvin Nelson – Music Director/Professor – California State University Hayward, and Principal/Assistant Trumpet of the Oakland Symphony
Affliations and Associations:
Diablo Symphony Orchestra – Principal Trumpet
The California Pops Orchestra, The Black Tie Jazz Orchestra, Gabriel’s Trio (brassworksband.com), The Musical Toy Soldiers (brassworksband.com), The Hayward Municipal Band
A.F.M. Local 6 and A.S.C.A.P. memberships
Education:
University of Phoenix (BSBM – grad. 1998) Bachelor of Science in Business Management
Control Data Institute, San Francisco, Ca – (grad. 1985) – Computer Technology, Electronics and Microprocessors
De Anza College, Cupertino, Ca (1978-79) – Music theory, counterpoint, jazz studies
California State University, Hayward (1976-77) General Ed. and music performance
Retired from Xerox Corporation in 2024 (1988 – 2024)