Accepting Trumpet Students

Joe Klause is a Portland-based musician and educator. He has received degrees from the Juilliard School, the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Longy School of Music, with additional studies at le Conservatoire du Rueil-Malmaison in France. He is an endorsed Thane Trumpet Artist.

On top of his private teaching studio, Joe is faculty at Lewis and Clark College, Reed College, Clackamas Community College, and regularly coaches trumpet sectionals and brass ensembles at local high schools and middle schools. He is a member of the Rose City Brass Quintet and Rose City Brass Trio, and performs regularly with other PNW orchestras, music festivals, and chamber ensembles including the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Tacoma Symphony, Eugene Symphony, Vancouver Symphony and Yakima Symphony.

Aside from trumpet, Joe is a software engineer, a devoted cat dad, and is passionate about swimming, yoga, bouldering, meditation, hiking, and food.

Contact Joe to set up an introductory lesson.