Performer Bios

Tyler Goodwin

Tyler Harrison Goodwin was born May 18, 1993, has been composing since September 2006. He has studied on the composition directions of Gregg Wilkins, Mark Kilstoffe, and Jay Bocook. He has graduated from Chapman High School in 2011. He has been a part of many ensembles and has played under the directions of Ray Cramer, Richard Clary, Leslie Hicken, Steven Bryant, Frank Ticheli, Jay BoCook, Hugh Flloyd, Tom Joiner and Brian Balmages. He has also studied trombone under the direction of Phil McIntyre, Brad Edwards, Christopher Smith, and Mark Britt. He is currently a junior at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina studying trombone performance, music composition and minoring in film. He is currently working under the True Cenima movie production studios working with the film score of "Speed Bump", "Tony Russa", and "The Jap Room" directed by Max Gudakov and Eddy Gudakov.

Ian Blegen

Ian Blegen is a horn performer, arranger, and teacher who is involved in expanding the repertoire available for the instrument, both in solo playing as well as in an ensemble setting. Since arriving at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro to begin his pursuit of a BM degree in Performance, Ian has performed with several ensembles within the university, including the Wind Ensemble, Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra, and Horn Choir. His time with these ensembles has led to domestic performances in North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and New York, as well as a European tour encompassing concerts in the Czech Republic, Austria, and Italy. Ian was a member of the pit orchestra for UNCG’s American Prize winning 2018 production of Mozart’s die Zauberflöte and was featured on the Wind Ensemble’s 2015 recording of John Mackey’s Drum Music. Ian’s performance experience extends well beyond the realm of collegiate playing. He has performed with the North Carolina Opera, the Greensboro Opera, Steve Haines and the Third Floor Orchestra, the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and the Durham Symphony Orchestra, for which he currently holds the second horn position.

​Ian began arranging music in high school, starting by writing out chorales to be used as marching band warm ups. When his first arrangements weren’t used for their original purpose however, he began arranging for horn quartet instead. He would then often record these smaller arrangements in a multi-track format, a hobby that nourished his love of writing music. Once he started college, Ian moved from quartets to full horn choir arrangements, several of which have been played by the UNCG Horn Choir, including his first original piece, entitled Stress Fracture and premiered in October 2019. Along with his love of horn chamber music, his high school hobby of mult-itrack recording also led to an interest in sound engineering, which he explored while teaching at a high school marching band in the area. He did the sound design for his band’s pre-show and, after getting his feet wet, went on to do the sound design for the school’s winter guard show later that fall. The show, entitled “Too Good at Goodbyes”, went on to win second place at the state championships that season.​

As part of his goal of expanding the well of repertoire for horn, Ian is currently (Fall 2019) playing in a faculty/student jazz nonet comprised of his colleagues at UNCG. Through their performance of charts from Miles Davis’ album, titled Birth of the Cool, he hopes to develop a greater understanding of jazz playing and how the horn can be used effectively in the genre.​

Ian’s non-music hobbies include watching football (namely the Pittsburgh Steelers,) all things Star Wars, SCUBA diving, and aviation. He intends to get his private pilot’s license after finishing his current degree.

Dalton Guin

Dalton Guin was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in May 1992. Raised in Erwin, NC, he began playing horn in 2004, and graduated from Triton High School in 2010. In 2011 Dalton enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, attending Basic Recruit Training in Parris Island, SC; Marine Combat Training in Jacksonville, NC; and the Basic Musician’s Course at the Naval School of Music in Virginia Beach, VA. During his two enlistments, he served as a horn instrumentalist, music librarian, motor transportation dispatcher and operator, training clerk, and associate conductor with the Marine Forces Pacific Band in Kaneohe Bay, HI, and the Marine Corps Band New Orleans in New Orleans, LA. Notable performances include a concert tour of New Zealand commemorating the 70^th Anniversary of Marines landing there during World War II, Amerika Samoa Flag Day, a 70^th Anniversary concert tour commemorating the Battle of Peleliu, the 70^th Anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic in Alberta, Canada, and the Marine Forces Reserve’s Century of Service concert tour across the continental United States.

Dalton is currently pursuing his Bachelor’s degree in Music Performance, studying under Dr. Abagail Pack at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.