Brass Instructor
IAN HOFFMAN has a deep-seated connection and passion for music and the arts, having started his musical journey singing with the Dreaming Summit Honor Choir in the 4th grade, and the Arizona State Choir the very next year.
He has been a trumpet player through and through from his first day of middle school band. Fast forward to the present, he now has over a decade’s worth of trumpet playing experience and is going on seven seasons instructing winds at AzMBA Grand Champion and two time Division 4A High Music Award-winning Millennium High School, as well as the award-winning Millennium Jazz Ensembles. He has a plethora of knowledge and experience in the areas of jazz, marching brass, and trumpet pedagogy respectively.
As a performer, Ian spent two summers with the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps as a multiple year soloist, and was section leader in 2022. He has had the opportunity to share the stage with world renowned trumpet players such as Wayne Bergeron, Jens Lindemann, Michael Martin, and José Sabaja, and carries this experience into his teaching endeavors.
Ian maintains a private trumpet studio in Phoenix and continues to teach brass sections across the state. He is the director of consecutive WGAZ Champion Foreword Winds, the premier independent winds group in Arizona, as well as serving as WGAZ Winds Advisor. He is starting his second year as assistant director at Millennium High School and plans to help take the program to new heights.
He is looking forward to getting after it with Pacific Crest this summer!