Bio
Rhode Island-based trumpeter Dr. Bailey Paugh aims to cross as many disciplinary boundaries as possible. As a performer and researcher, she is interested in the relationships between body, instrument, movement, and technology, as well as multi-media, intertextuality, and gender studies. She has performed with orchestras across the country including the Eugene Symphony, the Chautauqua Symphony, and the Syracuse Orchestra, but her true passion is contemporary music. Bailey is a founding member of something something trumpet, a group dedicated to bringing new music to new audiences.​
A Licensed Body Mapping Educator since 2019, Bailey works with musicians to connect movement and sound to improve technique, give freer and more embodied performances, and prevent injury. She has given Body Mapping workshops, clinics, and masterclasses across the U.S. and presented her research on the use of Body Mapping in trumpet pedagogy as part of the Association for Body Mapping Education’s webinar series.
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Bailey is an Assistant Professor of Music at the Community College of Rhode Island where she teaches trumpet and other brass instruments, music and movement, music theory, sight singing and ear training, and music appreciation. Prior to her appointment at CCRI, she taught music theory at Portland State University and with the Portland Youth Philharmonic.
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Bailey holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music (DMA, BM) and Portland State University (MM) where she studied with James Thompson and Dave Bamonte.