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Rob
Jonas
Rob joined the DCJB in late 2004 as lead trumpet player,
a role he has played with many different groups since taking up the instrument
at age 11. In addition to the DCJB, Rob currently plays lead for the Richland
College Thursday Night Jazz Band as well as Swingtime 2000, a 16-piece
big band he co-founded over 10 years ago and also manages. For six years
he played second trumpet with the Garland Summer Musicals orchestra, and
has also been part of a brass quintet called Classical Brass, Etc. Rob
was active in band at North Garland High School, and later played in concert
and jazz bands at Richland College. After transferring to the University
of Texas at Arlington, Rob had a four year stint as lead trumpet with
the UTA Jazz Orchestra, led by Bill Snodgrass. He works as a Patient Account
Rep for Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and is active at McKinney's Parkway
Baptist Church, where he volunteers as the sound engineer, serves on a
children's activities committee, and plays his horn from time to time.
Mike
Magers
Mike comes from a family of singers and
instrumentalists who have always been active in church music. "There
was hardly a time when some kind of music was not being played or sung
in our home when I was a kid." Mike says. In addition to playing
trumpet
in the DCJB since its early days, Mike has been a member of the
orchestra at the First
Baptist Church of Dallas for over 30 years. He is also active in the
cornet section of Heritage Brass Band, which recreates the music of the
Civil War and World War II. In addition, he plays trumpet the New
Life Symphony Orchestra. Prior groups have included the Bravura Wind
Ensemble, various summer musicals and comic opera orchestras. He is
a graduate of Baylor University and works
as a CPA when he can't find someplace to play.
Art
Drescher
A native of San Antonio, Art earned a
bachelor's degree in Horticulture from Texas A&M University in
College Station and a master's degree in Park & Leisure Service
Management from the University of North Texas in Denton. He played in
the Fightin' Texas Aggie Band at A&M, and has also played in the
Brass Ensemble and Hand Bell Choir at the First Christian Church of
Richardson. He currently attends Creekwood Christian Church in Flower
Mound. Along with the DCJB, he currently plays with Kleine Blasmusik, a
small German Brass Band, and the Hella Shrine Drum and Bugle Corps. He
has been president of both the Texas Association of Shrine Drum &
Bugle Corps and the Association of Shrine Drum & Bugle Corps of
North America. Art is a Registered Agent with Mutual of Omaha.
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Bob
Penick
Bob began playing trumpet in junior high in Columbus,
MS. At Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, he earned a music
education degree, minored in trumpet performance, and earned a BA in math.
He did graduate math work at the University of North Texas in Denton,
and in 1966 was hired by Texas Instruments in Dallas. He retired from
TI in 1997. Bob's playing lapsed after college, but resumed in 1987 when
he joined the Texas Instruments Jazz Band, a big band made up of TI employees.
He has also played with the Richland College Jazz Band, the Pecos River
Brass, the Survivors' Dixieland Band, the Richardson Community Band, and
The Rounders, a western swing band. As a free-lancer he has played with
Paul Salos and with the Christian big band Joshua. He joined the DCJB
in December, 2002. Bob's membership in multiple bands has afforded him
the opportunity of performing with the likes of Randy Brecker, Peter Erskine,
Kevin Mahagony, Marvin Stamm, Clark Terry and Mike Vax, as well as local
favorites Galen Jeter and the late Tommy Loy. In July, 2002, he played
with the TI Jazz Band at Switzerland's Montreux Jazz Festival.
Denis Campos
Denis Campos is a graduate of San Francisco
State University in San Francisco, California. He received a Bachelors
of Arts Degree in music in 2001 and a Diploma in Practical Theology
from Christ For The Nations Institute in 2005. In San Francisco, he
served as the Worship Leader at his home church for 5 years. He has
traveled and recorded with many Christian Spanish speaking artists and
ministers. He has taught piano, trumpet and saxophone as a private
instructor at CFNI. He currently serves as Worship Leader at New Life
Christian Fellowship in Dallas, TX and as Director of School of Worship
and Technical Arts at CFNI. Denis has a heart to see people come to the
feet of Jesus and worship Him with all their hearts in Spirit and in
truth.
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