Ethan Bulak Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il

-Responsible for creating and heading up a customer relations and media department for an veterans job-assistance website and mobile application.-Help customers by answering questions and helping them find creative solutions to fix problems that arise.-Create and consult on various forms of media that the company uses to better promote their services, including: composing and recording original music, video editing and presentation, and website design and programming.

-Serve as trumpet player for one of Chicago's premier for-hire horn sections-Have performed with many artists in a wide variety of genres-Composed original horn material for various ensembles including: Bumpus, Terrible Spaceship, Verona Red, Jamie Lyn Beatty, Brother Joscephus and the Love Revolution, JC Brooks and the Uptown Sound, Syl Johnson, Brent Puls, and more.

Greater Chicago Area

-Served as a private instructor in the Chicago area-Responsible for teaching piano, trumpet, and guitar lessons to students ranging in skill from beginners to advanced students-Learned the importance of differentiating instruction in order to ensure maximum progress with all students

Greater Chicago Area

-Serve as the trumpet player for a nationally touring funk and soul band-Wrote, arranged, and performed both original works and covers-Still performs regularly throughout the Chicagoland Area and the Midwest

Chicago, Il

-Serve as the second grade lead teacher for an after school learning center in West Chinatown.-Responsible for providing individualized instruction to students ranging from kindergarten to sixth grade with a wide variety of learning styles, strengths, and weaknesses.-In charge of effectively communicating and collaborating with the other educators under my supervision in order to maximize the potential for the educational, social, and emotional growth of the students.

Cicero, Il

-Served as Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet at Morton College-Responsible for providing students with the foundational skills needed to increase technical ability and musicianship-Worked collaboratively with other members of the music faculty in organizing recitals and repertoire, performing with the students, and increasing the size of the program

Chicago, Il

-Served as general music teacher, drum line instructor, and choir teacher for an AUSL operated school in the North Lawndale Cluster. -Responsible for coordinating and directing the rehearsals and performances for the Collins -Academy Drum Line, Gospel Band and Choir, and Recording and Production Club.-Ran logistics of performance, rehearsal, and recording for the AUSL Honor Choir.-Coordinated various ensemble performances at assemblies and other events at the high school and throughout North Lawndale Area.-Was the director of the The Collins Academy Drum Line, which was a active participant in the community; traveling to middle and elementary schools in North Lawndale to perform and help educate younger students, hosting the North Lawndale Cluster AUSL Drum Line rehearsals, and helping to secure and Arts Turnaround Grant for the AUSL North Lawndale Cluster of Schools.

Greater Chicago Area

-Played trumpet in a professional event band for weddings and corporate events-Learned the importance of punctuality-Provided the band with horn arrangements on a regular basis

Master Of Music Education, Music Teacher Education, K-12

Activities and Societies: Band, Choir, Orchestra, and Jazz BandGraduated magna cum laude from Vandercook College of Music with a Master.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Jazz Performance

Activities and Societies: DePaul University Honors Society, DePaul Screamin' Deamons Pep BandGraduate magna cum laude from DePaul.