Faculty: Brass & Woodwind
Tuba, Trombone, Baritone Horn, French Horn, Trumpet; and Woodwinds - Bassoon, Flutes, Clarinet, Oboe, Saxophone
NANCI STALEY, B. Mus., Music Education, Band and Orchestra, majored in the brass instruments, tuba being her performance instrument. She studied conducting, and woodwinds and strings also. She is choir director and Instrumental teacher (strings, winds, brass) at the John Hanson French Immersion and Montessori School, Prince George's Public School System, where she teaches all the instruments except guitar and harp. Ms. Staley is also a choral conductor at Clifton Park Baptist Church in Silver Spring, Maryland, and loves playing and teaching jazz. She joined the staff at Ottley Music School in the Spring of 2008, teaches beginning violin, woodwinds, brass, and she is part of the vocal teaching staff of the Talent4Kids Agency as well at OMS.
Trumpet
CLIFTON BROCKINGTON, B. Mus., Trumpet received a
Bachelors of Music from Howard University with a concentration in jazz.
He has recorded with gospel artists such as Donnie McClurkin, Fred
Hammond, Andre Crouch, Richard Smallwood, and Israel with Mo’ Horns. In
addition to performing in over 30 cities in the United States, the
native Washingtonian has traveled to the Japan, London, St. Croix, and
recently to the Republic of Georgia playing jazz, R&B, and gospel
music.
Mr. Brockington joined the faculty of Ottley Music School in the winter
of 2004-2005 as a trumpet and piano and jazz piano teacher. In the fall
of 2006 he re-established the OMS Jazz Ensemble that that been
initially formed by Tom Newman in 2001. As a singer/songwriter,
Clifton has written several compositions: “Life’s Longings” and
“Journey for Strathmore’s own City Dance”, and as Music Director
co-wrote music to the play Roll On! Primarily known as a trumpeter,
Clifton has given solo piano performance at the Kennedy Center. For the
past two years, he has spent time at the piano trying to master Latin
music with local groups such as: Milagro, La Leyenda and Joe Falero and
the D.C. Latin Jazz All-Star. In addition to completing his first CD
featuring him as a solo artist, Clifton is working to a jazz adaptation
of "Peter and the Wolf". One album he was featured on as a trumpeter
received rave reviews from the Washington Post,
where Mike Joyce noted that “trumpeter Clifton Brockington displays a
knack for recalling Miles Davis's soulful lyricism on 'Ah Jua,'
'Sunlight Underwater' and other tracks.”
Trumpet
KIERON CAVEL IRVINE, B.Mus., Trumpet, is a graduate of
Howard University in Music Education, where he is a member of the
Howard University Jazz Ensemble since 2004. He currently is the lead trumpet and flugelhornist. Kieron attended Ottley Music
School as a child, learning piano and music theory.
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