Russell Murray is Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Music at the University of Delaware, where he directs the Collegium Musicum.  Although his training at the graduate level was primarily in Renaissance musicology, he also held a teaching fellowship in trumpet at the University of North Texas where he studied with John Haynie and Leonard Candelaria. Playing with NVCB marks a return to brass playing after more than 20 years specializing in early wind instruments. He is currently Music Director and Conductor of the Chesapeake Sliver Cornet Brass Band.