Kenneth Kroesche is currently the Professor of Trombone. Euphonium and Tuba at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan where he also serves as the Coordinator of Applied Instrumental Music. For the past seven years, he has served in a similar role at Western Carolina University and has held teaching positions at Lenoir-Rhyne College, University of Michigan-Flint and the Schools of Music at the Universities of Michigan and Georgia. This past summer he taught at the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp in Twin Lakes, Michigan. He holds a master's degree in music and doctorate of musical arts degree in performance from the University of Michigan, in addition to a bachelor's degree in music education from Texas State University. As a euphonium soloist, Dr. Kroesche has appeared with a number of ensembles, including the performance of a concerto with the National Symphony Orchestra at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. This honor was the result of a competitive nationwide audition sponsored by the orchestra and their music director, Matislav Rostropovich. The Washington Post's review of this concert described him as "an expert on the instrument." He has presented recitals at the 2000 International Tuba & Euphonium Conference (ITEC) in Canada, the U.S. Army Conference and the 2002 ITEC at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. There he also performed with Symphonia, an ensemble comprised of the nation's foremost performers and professors of tuba and euphonium. Further, the Western Carolina University Tuba-Euphonium Ensemble presented a concert at this conference. He is the principal trombonist of the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, while also performing as a trombonist with the Rochester Symphony and the Toledo Symphony's Concert Band.