Meet Joe Metzer
For more than five decades, Joe has built a life around composing, arranging, teaching, and performing music.
Experience From Every Side of the Stage.
Joseph Metzer is an internationally recognized composer, arranger, trumpet performer, and educator whose career spans more than five decades. A native of Oklahoma, he has worked with ensembles and musicians across multiple regions of the United States.
Throughout his career, Joe has served as an arranger for ensembles of all levels, a public and private school educator and administrator, and a concert and jazz clinician throughout Oklahoma. He also held the positions of staff arranger and Director of Bands at the University of Tulsa.
Under his direction, concert, marching, and jazz ensembles earned consistent distinction, including recognition at the state level in jazz performance.
Joe’s catalog includes dozens of published compositions that have been distributed and performed internationally. As a trumpet performer, he has maintained an active professional career for more than 50 years, appearing with local and regional ensembles and collaborating with notable touring professionals.
Joe continues to call Oklahoma home, where he remains active in composition, arranging, performance, and private trumpet instruction.
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