Mike Kaupa is currently teaching at the Harley School in Rochester, NY, and the Eastman Community Music School. He was an interim professor of jazz trumpet at the Eastman School of Music for the 1999/2000 school year. Mike's also been on the faculty of the Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp from 1998 to 2007.
Mike has performed throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Japan. Since 2001 he has been a member of the faculty at the annual Seminario de Jazz, in Barcelona, Spain. He has been associated with the Taller de Musics school in Barcelona since 1983 and recorded there with the group Onix and with Tete Monoliu and the Orchestra Taller de Musics de Barcelona.
Among others, he has performed with Jorge Rossy, Ben Monder, Mark Murphy, Gary Bartz, Luciana Souza, Ed Howard, Joe Locke, Bruce Barth, Steve Wilson, Steve Gadd, Judy Niemack, Mel Torme, and Ray Charles. He recently conducted the Finger Lakes All-County Middle School Jazz Band in Geneva, NY.
AND (fall, 2007). soloist with New York State Council on the Arts grant recipient, Chris Jetsch, and large ensemble in NYC.
***Mike can be heard EVERY FRIDAY EVENING at the Strathallan Hotel in Rochester, N.Y.
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