Professional positions
John Marcellus is currently Emeritus Professor of Trombone, Eastman School of Music, Music Director of the Bemus Bay Pops Symphony Orchestra (2012- ) now renamed the "Chautauqua Lake Pops" and Principal Trombone, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra at the Chautauqua Institution in New York since 1979. He served as Professor of Trombone at the Eastman School of Music (1978-2014), Music Director and Conductor of the Brighton Symphony Orchestra (1980-2014). Since 1979, he has taught at the Chautauqua Institute and served as the Principal Trombonist with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra.
Previous to joining the faculty of the Eastman School in 1978, Dr. Marcellus served as the Principal Trombonist with the National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, DC) for 13 years, and also served as the Associate Principal Trombonist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, soloist with the United States Navy Band, and served as Principal Tuba with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra at the age of 16.
Dr. Marcellus was the first trombone and tuba instructor on the faculty of the North Carolina School for the Arts from 1965 to 1968. In Washington, D.C., he served on the faculties of Catholic University from 1966 to 1978, Howard University from 1967 to 1970, American University from 1968 to 1978 and the Interlochen Arts Academy from 1982-1983.
He served as guest conductor at the National Music Camp at Interlochen in 1982. Other musical groups that he has played with or conducted include the Penfield Symphony Orchestra, Brighton Symphony Orchestra, Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic, Buffalo Philharmonic, St. Louis Symphony, Syracuse Symphony OrchestraBaltimore Symphony Orchestra, and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra. He has performed as a soloist with theU.S. Navy Band]] in Washington D.C. 1960-1964), the National Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet, Washington Theatre Chamber Players, and the Contemporary Music Forum, as well as performing solo recitals in London, Paris, Cologne, Stuttgart, Birmingham, Manchester, Japan, Sweden, Finland, Austria, Holland, Poland, and Denmark.
His close association with the International Trombone Association has included appearances in workshops since 1972. He is one of its founding board members and served as its president in 1988–1990)]. Other workshops in which he has performed recitals and solos include the 1976 International Brass Congress in Montreux, Switzerland, 1981 Low Brass Workshop at McGill University in Montreal, the Eastern Trombone Workshop since 1974, the Eastern Music Festival, Brevard Music Center, and Norfolk Chamber Orchestra. He served as co-director of the Eastern Trombone Workshop along with John Melick held at Towson State University (1974-1979) in Baltimore, Md. In 1980 the workshop moved to Florida State University, under the direction of Prof. William F. Cramer, in 1981 the Workshop was hosted by Bill Campbell at the University of Miami. The U.S. Navy Band, under Chief Phillips (a Cramer student) took control of the Workshop in 1983, thus bringing the event back to the DC area. In 1993, U.S. Army Band solo trombonist Scott Shelsta, with support of Colonel Bryan Shelburn, commander of The U.S. Army Band, took hold of the reins of ETW. In 2014, at the 40th edition of the Workshop, Colonel Thomas Palmatier unveiled the workshop’s new name: The U.S. Army Band’s American Trombone Workshop.
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