Keith Johnson is Regents Professor of Trumpet at the University of North Texas. Prior to his present position he was Professor of Trumpet at the University of Northern Iowa. He is a member of the Dallas Opera Orchestra, the Dallas Bach Society, Fort Worth Early Music, the Orchestra of New Spain, and the New Hampshire Music Festival. He has played with the symphonies of Dallas, Fort Worth, Shreveport, and Kansas City. He has also played with the Mexico philharmonic, the Orchestra of the Mineria Festival, the Solistas de Mexico, and the Cape Town Philharmonic. He has been a member of the Northern Brass Quintet, the Texas Brass Ensemble, and the Sundance Brass. He has served on the Board of Directors for the International Trumpet Guild, and for eight years was Music Review Editor for the International Trumpet Journal. He has appeared as a soloist and clinician throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Africa. He has published more than thirty articles on brass performance, and he has published two books, The Art of Trumpet Playing (Gore Publishing) and Brass Performance and Pedagogy (Prentice-Hall), that have been translated into several languages and are used in universities and conservatories throughout the world. He has also published method books for modern trumpet and for natural (Baroque) trumpet. His students have held teaching and playing positions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico as well as Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Spain, and South Africa. He holds degrees from the University of North Texas and the University of Illinois, and his teachers have included William Scarlato, John Haynie, Haskell Sexton and Vincent Cichowicz.