Artistic Director, Trumpets and Flugelhorn, Composer and Arranger
Dean Boysen has been serving as Artistic Director since 2012 and is a founding member of today’s BRAZZISSIMO! ensemble. Dean has been writing for the ensemble for twenty-three years contributing in excess of forty original compositions and arrangements combined. In addition to the brass dectet music he writes, he also arranges for the brass quintet and trio, woodwind ensembles, big band, and orchestra. Dean’s early professional trumpet work began at age 16 which included nightclub top-forty band work, Marriott’s Great America theme park musician, and that of studio musician (1976 -1983). His record album credits number in the dozens. He was a signed recording artist with the group Collage under the SOLAR/MCA records label. He recorded with many popular national recording artists and played for various shows such as the The Bay Area Music Awards – Bammies (1979 – 1982), and concerts with The Four Tops, Sylvester, Huey Lewis, Third World, etc. (Discography link below)
Trumpet studies:
(1979-1984) Claude Gordon Trumpet virtuoso and pedagogue
(1978) Carl Leach – sensational former Bay Area Circle Star Theater and Las Vegas hotels lead trumpeter
(1977) Marvin Nelson – Music Director at California State University Hayward, and Principal/Assistant Trumpet of the Oakland Symphony.
Current Associations: Diablo Symphony Orchestra – Principal Trumpet
The California Pops Orchestra, The Black Tie Jazz Orchestra, The Hayward Municipal Park Band, Gabriel’s Trio, The Musical Toy Soldiers (brassworksband.com)
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: February of 2024 from Xerox Corporation (1988 – 2024)