Band Instrument Repair Program - Instructors • Greg Beckwith Greg Beckwith is an instructor in the Band Instrument Repair Program at MN State College SE Technical in Red Wing, MN. Greg is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy in Michigan and attended Eastman School of Music and The St Louis Conservatory of Music for horn performance. Looking to supplement a freelancing career on horn Greg entered the field of Musical Instrument Repair and received his diploma for BIR in 1992 at Red Wing. He was a repair technician for Davenport Instrument Repair, located in Brooklyn Center, MN for 10 years before his position at the college in Red Wing. In 1995 he had the opportunity to apprentice horn building with Daniel Rauch of Rauch Horns, in Oslo, Norway. He has been involved with the Band Instrument Repair Program at Red Wing since 1996, and has now been teaching full time for the program since 2003. Greg is a member of NAPBIRT and has presented clinics regionally and nationally. In addition he has presented for instrument conferences that have come to the area, given master-classes that combine horn performance and repair/maintenance to public school musicians and also held clinics for the Minnesota Youth Symphonies’ wind players. In June of 2009 he presented at the International Horn societies’ 41st International Symposium at Western Illinois University. He continues to repair at home for a small clientele of brass players in Minnesota. Greg also continues to freelance professionally on horn in the Minneapolis/St Paul area. In his own words:
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