Dean Boysen serves as the Artistic Director for the 10-piece brass chamber ensemble, BRAZZISSIMO! Throughout his twenty-five year association with the ensemble Dean has added to the BrZ library his own compositions and arrangements thus infusing an element of personal artistic identity into the BRAZZISSMO! sound. In addition to writing for the ensemble he writes and arranges music for brass quintet and trio, woodwind ensembles, big band, and orchestra.
Mr. Boysen – trumpeter and flugelhornist – has performed, recorded, and written horn arrangements and compositions for many popular national music artists including: Collage, Con Funk Shun, Carl Carlton, Bill Summers and Summers Heat, Full Spectrum Jazz, The Whispers, Sylvester, and more. Some of his show performances include: The Bay Area Music Awards (Bammies), plus concert dates with The Four Tops, The Temptations, The Whispers, Sylvester, Huey Lewis and the News, Third World, Dr. Loco’s Rockin’ Jalapeño Band, etc. Discography at Discogs.com
Retired in 2024 from a thirty-six year technical career with Xerox Corporation, Dean continues on with music activities, family and friend visits, hiking, motorcycling, and occasional online competitve chess tournaments.
Trumpet Studies:
Claude Gordon – trumpet virtuoso and pedagogue (period 1979-1984)
Carl Leach – Claude Gordon protegè and former Bay Area Circle Star Theater and Las Vegas Flamingo Hotel lead trumpeter (1978)
Marvin Nelson – Principal/Assistant Principal Trumpet – Oakland Symphony, Music Director/Trumpet Professor – California State University Hayward (1977)
Music Affliations/Associations:
Diablo Symphony Orchestra – Principal Trumpet & board director
The BrassWorks Band (brass quintet and drums)
The BrassFire! brass quintet
Gabriel’s Trio
The Musical Toy Soldiers
The Hayward Municipal Band
The Oakland 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 (George Olsen), Jazz studies (Tom Hart)
California State University, Hayward (1976-77) General Ed. and music performance
Retired in 2024 – Xerox Corporation (1988 – 2024)