

For over a decade now I managed to build up a career as soloist, composer and improviser playing with some of the leading voices in European jazz, along with performing eith American players (Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jamie Baum, Jonathan Blake and Jaleel Shaw).I teach also improvisation and composition, drawing from the European tradition and my experiences working with such trumpet masters as Tomasz Stańko, Piotr Wojtasik, Axel Dorner and Palle Mikkelborg.After years and years of struggling myself to find a right embochure and way of playing (went through at least 4 complete embochure corrections) I finally am at the point where I am confident my approach works and because of all the experience gathered I can help with technical issues at any level.

Technique - based strongly on work of Arnold Jacobs and Laurie Frink approach. Janiyah Outlaw might not know her way around EB Frink Middle School yet, but she knows a lot more about moving up to the sixth grade after spending the past three weeks in LCPS’s Summer Bridge Academy, a program helping rising sixth and ninth graders make the step up to a new school environment.

Allen Mewborn became the second principal of the consolidated school. Savannah school is now closed, but was consolidated with Contentnea Elementary to form Contentnea Savannah K-8 School. Interestingly enough, these remain three of the four current middle schools in Lenoir County. E B Frink Middle School placed in the bottom 50 of all schools in North Carolina for overall test scores (math proficiency is bottom 50, and reading proficiency is bottom 50) for the 2018-19 school year. There were three choices for black students in Lenoir County: Frink, Savannah, and Woodington. E B Frink Middle School serves 503 students in grades 6-8. When consolidation occurred, Frink was chosen for its location, infrastructure, and administration. Upon consolidation, the school was renamed E.B. Around this time, Lenoir County became one of the first places in North Carolina to have both white and black consolidated schools. Principal Frink died suddenly in May of 1951. They rebuilt the school across the street at its current location (102 N. In 1921, the school caught on fire and burned down. It was located at 103 North Martin Luther King Jr. Frink Middle School began as La Grange Colored High School in 1920.
