{"id":9027,"date":"2019-07-03T15:08:30","date_gmt":"2019-07-03T19:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/?post_type=cu_people&#038;p=9027"},"modified":"2025-06-02T11:30:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T15:30:29","slug":"travis-mandel","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/people\/travis-mandel\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Mandel"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n<p>Travis Mandel is Principal Trumpet of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, Cathedral Brass &amp; a member of the Central Band of the Canadian Armed Forces. Born and raised in the National Capital Region, he began the trumpet at age 14 in Le Centre d&#8217;excellence artistique of l&#8217;\u00c9cole secondaire publique De La Salle. He later pursued his studies at the University of Ottawa where he completed both his bachelor and masters degree under the tutelage of Eric Rupp. His desire to perfect his craft led him to the University of Montreal where he took selected courses in orchestral performance while studying with renowned trumpeter and pedagogue Manon Lafrance. In recent years, Travis has participated in a number of masterclasses and seminars, most notably at the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale (2016 &amp; 2017) where he had the opportunity to work with soloists Hakan Harderberger, Cl\u00e9ment Saulnier &amp; Marco Blaaw as well as a host of orchestral players including Thomas Stevens, James Thompson &amp; Craig Morris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over his young career, Travis has appeared in concert with many orchestras in Eastern Canada, most notably with the National Arts Centre Orchestra, the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra, l\u2019Orchestre symphonique de Gatineau and l\u2019Orchestre de la francophonie. He has played with a variety of military bands, but his proudest moments came as member of the Band of the Governor General&#8217;s Foot Guards, a band he served with until 2016. His career highlights include playing for His Royal Highness Prince William and the Duchess of Cambridge, appearing in concert with the Beijing Symphony Orchestra, sharing the stage with with jazz artist Diana Krall as well as performing solo works with the University of Ottawa Orchestra and the Central Band of the Canadian Armed Forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although Travis enjoys performing, he has a great passion for music education and thoroughly enjoys working with young musicians. In 2012, he returned to his roots accepting a position as a brass clinician at the newly renamed Centre d&#8217;excellence artistique de l&#8217;Ontario. He has also been teaching in a variety of other arts programs throughout the National Capital Region which include le Programme sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 en arts of l&#8217;\u00c9cole secondaire catholique B\u00e9atrice-Desloges as well as Arts Canterbury. Travis takes great pride in his private studio that has enabled students to continue their studies in a large number of Canadian universities most notably at McGill University, the University of Western Ontario and the University of Ottawa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Travis Mandel is a Bach Artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9057,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cu_people_first_name":"Travis","cu_people_last_name":"Mandel","cu_people_initials":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_people_type":[18],"cu_people_expertise":[],"class_list":["post-9027","cu_people","type-cu_people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","cu_people_type-performance-instructor"],"acf":{"cu_people_job_title":"Performance Instructor: Trumpet","cu_people_degree":"","cu_building":false,"cu_people_office_num":"","cu_people_pronoun":"none","cu_people_designation":"","cu_people_email":"","cu_people_phone":"","cu_people_phone_ext":"","cu_people_linkedin":"","cu_people_bluesky":"","cu_people_twitter":"","cu_people_instagram":"","cu_people_facebook":"","cu_people_website":"https:\/\/centerstage.conn-selmer.com\/artists\/travis-mandel","cu_people_orcid":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/9027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/9027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9059,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people\/9027\/revisions\/9059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_people_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_type?post=9027"},{"taxonomy":"cu_people_expertise","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_people_expertise?post=9027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}