B. Vance's son-Seth Frack

Post from NC Brass Band 4/16/2014

 



Today's "Featured NCBB Musician of the Day" is our principal trombonist, Seth Frack....

After making his way down from rural Alberta, Canada...through Columbus, OH...Seth Frack (trombone) has been happy to call Winston-Salem, NC home for the last 18 years. Shortly after moving south, he attended the University of North Carolina School of the Arts where he received a Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone Performance under the instruction of James Miller of the LA Philharmonic. He continued on to a earn a Master of Music degree in Trombone Performance also under James Miller, and has remained an active player in the area ever since. During the day, Seth works as a Product Development Manager for a technology company.

His orchestral trombone playing has taken him across the southeast performing with such groups as the North Carolina Symphony, the New World Symphony, the Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Opera Carolina, the Winston-Salem Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony, and the Western Piedmont Symphony. He has also performed with the Carolina Brass, the Carolina Philharmonic Brass Quintet, the North Carolina Chamber Brass, the Giannini Brass Quintet, the da Capo Brass Quintet, and the Piedmont Wind Symphony. His jazz experience includes the Charlotte Jazz Orchestra, Orquesta International La Clave, Tropic Orquesta, the Doug Woolard Big Band, and the Piedmont Jazz Collective, as well as local jazz jams in the Triad area.

Seth currently serves as principal trombone of the Carolina Philharmonic and the North Carolina Brass Band, lead trombone in the Camel City Jazz Orchestra and the Little Apple Big Band, and is a founding member of the Ardmore Brass Quintet