Room
107, Lipinsky HallOne University Heights, CPO 2290
Asheville, NC 28804
828-251-6432
music@unca.edu
Dr. John Entzi
Assistant Professor of Music
Dr.
John Entzi is former Director of Concert Bands and Jazz Ensembles at
North Carolina State University. Dr. Entzi received the B.M.E.
degree (1974) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
the M.A. (1978) from Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, and
the D.M.A. (1998) in trumpet performance from the University of
South Carolina in Columbia, South Carolina.
Dr. Entzi has toured and
performed extensively throughout the Southeast, where he performed
with Holiday on Ice, Disney on Parade, The Ringling Brothers &
Barnum and Bailey Circus, The Henry Busse Orchestra, The Tommy
Dorsey Orchestra, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, Guy Lombardo, Vaughn
Monroe, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, Atlantic Jazz Orchestra, When
Swing Was King, Nelson Riddle Orchestra, and the U.S. Air Jazz
Orchestra. He has also performed with such notables as Frankie Valli
and the Four Seasons, Nancy Wilson, The Four Tops, The Spinners, The
Temptations, Anita Bryant, Martha Raye, Bernadette Peters, Johnnie
Ray, and Gladys Knight and the Pips. He has also performed with the
Saint Joseph Symphony, the Kansas City Symphony, the Miller Piedmont
Symphony, the Greensboro Symphony, and the South Carolina
Philharmonic and is a charter member of the Charlotte Repertory
Orchestra.
Dr. Entzi is an active member
of the National Band Association, the International Association of
Jazz Educators, Music Educators National Conference, International
Trumpet Guild, and the College Band Directors National Conference.
Dr. Entzi is also a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia and the Kappa
Kappa Psi Band Fraternity.