As a conductor he has worked with a wide variety of ensembles including choirs, orchestras, music theatre, and university ensembles. His conducting teachers include Sam Jones, Don Portnoy, Kurt Muspratt, Paul Vermel and the many conductors with whom he has worked and observed for the past 40 years. Mr. Trinkle was a conducting fellow at the famed Conductor's Institute of South Carolina for 2 years. Ensembles under his direction have toured the US, Switzerland, Italy and Brazil.
His own ensemble, Trinkle Brass Works, Inc., has received wide recognition through grants from the National Endowment for the Arts via Arts Midwest and Western States Arts Federation. Additionally grants from the Virginia Arts Council, North Carolina Arts Council, the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Wyoming Arts Council, Nevada Arts Council and many individuals and companies have funded hundreds of performances and Arts in Education residencies. TBW researches, commissions and performs music for brass and percussion. |