April Brumfield is Director of Brumfield & Associates Music, an agency that manages
the careers and touring of a select group of artists including world-renowned jazz
trombonist Wycliffe Gordon.
She has over twenty-five years of experience in artist management, programming, fundraising
and special events management, and holds a Masters degree in Arts Administration from
the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. She has worked with some of the most
celebrated artists in classical and jazz music, including Jean-Pierre Rampal, Alfred
Brendel, the Juilliard String Quartet, Fred Hersch, Paul Winter, and The Amadeus Trio,
among others.
Ms. Brumfield has served in higher education since 2001, as an Associate Professor,
and as the Director of Music Industry Studies at Eastern Kentucky University (from
2001-2015). While there, she created a joint degree program in Music Marketing in
the College of Business Administration, and served as Faculty Advisor for both programs.
She was also associate chair of the department in marketing and promotion.
Currently she is adjunct Professor at Augusta University, where she is also helping to create a certificate program in Music Industry Studies.
She teaches online courses in Music Copyright, Licensing & Publishing, Careers in
Music Business and Booking and Touring Management.
April is a Kentucky Peer Advisory Consultant for the Kentucky Arts Council and presents
yearly professional development workshops for Kentucky Artists. She also volunteers
as President of the Friends of Madison Community Band and is an active member of Jazz
Educator’s Network, where she was a guest Presenter at the annual members’ conference
in 2012 and 2016.
She is an accomplished trumpet player and is a former member of the McDonald’s All-American High School, (which is where she met her husband). Her passions include bowling, gardening, traveling and of course the music business.
