She has performed and recorded professionally on trumpets both old and new with the Baltimore Chamber Orchestra, the Handel Choir of Baltimore, the Orchestra of the 17th Century, and Newberry’s Victorian Cornet Band. She studied at the Peabody Conservatory (DMA, Conducting; BM, Performance; BM, Music Education), and the University of Tennessee–Knoxville (MM, Performance). A member of the editorial staff of the International Trumpet Guild Journal since 2002, she has published widely about historic brass and is currently at work on two books: The Trumpet Family: Instruments, History, and Repertoire [working title] (Indiana University Press, forthcoming) and Dictionary for the Modern Trumpeter (Scarecrow Press, forthcoming). For more information: http://elisakoehler.wordpress.com