Michael Cichowicz and Mark Dulin founders of Studio 259 Productions
Michael Cichowicz makes his living as a professional trumpet player. He has toured, recorded or played with artists such as Tower of Power, Rod Stewart, Huey Lewis and the News, the Beach Boys, Joe Cocker, Burt Bacharach, Smokey Robinson, Sammy Davis Jr., Frank Sinatra, Aretha Franklin, and more recently Frankie Valli and Gino Vanelli, to name just a few. Michael currently resides in Chicago, Illinois and makes his living as a trumpet player, horn arranger, publisher, clinician, and administrator. He plays regularly with several prominent local bands, has written hundreds of horn arrangements and credits Jerry Hey and Greg Adams as his main mentors in that area.
Michael also appears at schools around the country conducting master classes about his father, Vincent Cichowicz’ career, approaches to small horn section playing in commercial music and the music business. The classes are designed to help educate young players in making the transition from universities and colleges into the world of the professional commercial brass players. Since 2014 Michael has also been working with Richard Stoelzel, the Professor of Trumpet at McGill University in Montreal, on establishing a new worldwide trumpet organization called the World Trumpet Society. Michael is currently the Vice President and COO of the WTS. They will be holding trumpet seminars around the world to try to bring trumpet players from around the world closer together!
Mark Dulin leads an active career as a performer and educator in Atlanta, Georgia. As an orchestral musician he is a former member of the Charlotte and Jacksonville Symphony Orchestras. He has performed with the Emerson String Quartet, giving the North American Premiere of Dimitri Shostakovich’s op.41A. Dulin is a founding member of the Atlanta Chamber Brass.
Dulin is a faculty member at LaGrange College and Purdue University Fort Wayne and has served on the faculties of the University of Akron, Winthrop University, Appalachian State University and the University of North Florida and has presented lectures and masterclasses throughout the United States including The Juilliard School, The Eastman School of Music, The Cleveland Institute of Music, The University of Wisconsin, The University of Iowa, Western Illinois University, Illinois State University and Baylor University.
He has written articles for the ITG Journal including interviews with Håkan Hardenberger, Gabor Tarkovi, Raymond Mase and Kevin Cobb.
Dr. Dulin holds degrees from Indiana University, the University of Cincinnati and SUNY Stony Brook and is a Vincent Bach Performing Artist. He is a student of John Rommel, Marie Speziale, Kevin Cobb, Joe Phelps, Michael Sachs, James Pandolfi, and John Entzi.