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Colaluca began playing the trumpet in sixth grade. He performed for Gypsy Rose Lee while a college student and has played locally in a brass trio and supper club group. Colaluca has held the first trumpet chair in the [[DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA]]. | Colaluca began playing the trumpet in sixth grade. He performed for Gypsy Rose Lee while a college student and has played locally in a brass trio and supper club group. Colaluca has held the first trumpet chair in the [[DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA]]. | ||
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Revision as of 03:09, 6 December 2008
COLALUCA, Joseph. (New Castle, PA- ). Celebrated trumpeter and chair of the LORAS COLLEGE music faculty. Colaluca came to Loras in 1969 and started a stage band, brass choir, and a concert band. Drawing upon his own experience, he assembled the first Loras College Jazz Festival in 1972 that showcased such celebrated musicians as Ed Shaughnessy of the "Tonight" television show and bandleader Maynard Ferguson.
Colaluca began playing the trumpet in sixth grade. He performed for Gypsy Rose Lee while a college student and has played locally in a brass trio and supper club group. Colaluca has held the first trumpet chair in the DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.