Dr. Gilbert Cline, Professor of Music, is HSU's teacher of Studio Trumpet. In the performance venue at HSU he organizes and leads the Brass Ensembles, which have included a student Brass Choir and the Commencement Brass Choir, Brass Consort von Humboldt (an early music project), and various other small ensembles. He also teaches Brass Techniques (for Music Education Majors), Music History (Antiquity to 1750), Scoring/ Orchestration, and Jazz! -- An American Art Form.

Returning to roots of the trumpet, Dr. Cline has focused his energies on baroque trumpet (the long, eight-foot trumpet having no valves!), performing often as a soloist -- with Seattle Baroque, the Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists (S.F. Bay Area), Portland Baroque Orchestra, Trinity Consort (Portland), the Jefferson Baroque Orchestra (Ashland), Musica Angelica Baroque (Los Angeles), and Magnificat Baroque Orchestra (San Francisco). Other solo credits on baroque trumpet include the International Brassfest, the Oregon Coast Festival, and the San Luis Obispo Mozart Festival. He has received reviews and notices in the major newspapers of Seattle, Los Angeles, and Sacramento -- and in publications of the International Trumpet Guild and the Historic Brass Society.

His research project Brass Consort von Humboldt (baroque trumpets, cornetti, sackbuts, and drums) has delved into music for the old brasswinds of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. BCvH appeared at the 1998 state CMEA conference, the 1999 Historic Brass Society national meeting, in 2000 in Ashland, Oregon, in 2001 at the Palace of Legion of Honor, and in 2002 at Grace Cathedral. Appearing on community concerts and touring to California schools and even Fransican missions, BCvH also recorded a full length audio CD "Tour de Brass," released in 2003.

Beyond performing and teaching, Dr. Cline has researched old trumpets and brasswinds in museums in the U.S. and England, continues research on Humboldt County music history, and composes new works. "Corniche" was been featured in 2002 and 2003 in England at the International Trumpet Guild Conference, and in the U.S. at the National Trumpet Competition and the International Women's Brass Conference. Looking to the new, he has written more than twenty original works for his mid-sized jazz ensemble "The Midnight Jazz-tet."

Dr. Cline earned the BA in music from Humboldt State, the MA from Cal State Hayward, and the doctorate (DMA in trumpet performance) from the University of Oregon, Eugene. First teaching at HSU in 1977, he then taught music at Clear Lake High School and at Castro Valley High School, returning full-time to HSU in 1982. Beyond his current teaching assignments, he previously directed HSU jazz big bands and jazz combos, made highly rated appearances at the Pacific Coast Collegiate Jazz Festivals and the Reno Jazz Festival, and recorded the LP album "P.M. Jazz" in 1985. He also was conductor of HSU concert and symphonic bands, and has served as a clinician and guest conductor of honor bands. In addition to clinics and tours presented in scores of local and regional schools, his students at HSU hosted educational and concert appearances at HSU by groups and artists such as The Whole Noyse and Allen Vizzutti, and appeared on-stage on with with artists ranging from Louie Bellson to Gerald Wilson. On modern valved trumpet he performed with the Oakland Symphony and other orchestras in the San Francisco bay area, with the Oregon Bach Festival and the Eugene Symphony, and in small ensembles such as the Oregon Brass Quintet and Oakland Symphony Brass Quartet.