Arie VandeWaa

Assistant Professor of Trombone

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Biography

A Mobile native, Arie VandeWaa has worked as a freelance trombonist in the Southeast since 2010 and has performed on both tenor and bass trombone with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and Mobile Opera, the Baton Rouge Symphony Orchestra, The Pensacola Symphony Orchestra, the Gulf Coast Symphony Orchestra, The Tuscaloosa Symphony Orchestra, The Mobile Big Band Society, The Druid City Big Band, The Pensacola Jazz Society, and the Southeast Chamber Orchestra, as well as various Jazz, Commercial, Second Line, and Chamber ensembles throughout the Gulf Coast area. Dr. VandeWaa has also maintained a healthy trombone studio, teaching private lessons to high school and middle school students in Baldwin and Mobile counties, and has worked as a low brass clinician for multiple colleges, high schools, and middle schools throughout the Southeast.

VandeWaa has participated in and audited numerous festivals and seminars including the 2013 Alessi Seminar, as well as the Southeast Trombone Symposium and the International Trombone Festival. Arie has also taken lessons from Peter Ellefson, James Markey, Michael Mulcahy, Brian Hecht, Craig Mulcahy, Jim Nova, Bradley Palmer, Brent Phillips, Martin McCain, and has performed in masterclass settings for Joseph Alessi, Denson Paul Pollard, David Finlayson, Nathan Zgonc, George Curran, Alex Iles, Tom "Bones" Malone, and more.

VandeWaa completed his Bachelor’s degree in Music with elective studies in Business at the University of South Alabama, where he studied trombone under Dr. Greg Gruner and completed his Master's Degree and Doctoral Degree at the University of Alabama, where he studied with Dr. Jon Whitaker. He is an Edwards Instruments Artist.