BRYAN GOFF, Professor of Trumpet and Coordinator of Winds and Percussion, joined the faculty of Florida State University in 1974. He holds the B.M.E. and M.M. degrees from the University of Colorado. Prior to his FSU appointment he was trumpet soloist with the Air Force Academy and taught in Colorado. He currently plays principal trumpet with the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra and appears extensively as a soloist and clinician throughout the United States and abroad.

Goff has recently appeared as soloist with the Florida Symphony and Tallahassee Symphony and has performed with the Atlanta Symphony, Colorado Springs Philharmonic, and others. He studied Baroque trumpet with Edward Tarr and frequently appears as soloist on that instrument and with the FSU Baroque Trumpet ensemble. Professor Goff is past-president of the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors, and is on the Board of Directors of the International Trumpet Guild, an organization which he served as Treasurer for 16 years.