Dr. Christine Ennis joined the faculty of Texas A&M University-Kingsville in the fall of 2005.  She holds a Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music in Trumpet Performance from The University of Texas at Austin as well as dual Bachelor of Music degrees in Music Education and Trumpet Performance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Her trumpet teachers have included Ray Sasaki, Ronald Romm, and Michael Ewald.  She performs regularly with the Victoria and Corpus Christi Symphony Orchestras and is an active performer, educator, adjudicator and clinician throughout the country.  Dr. Ennis has presented clinics at the Texas Music Educators Convention and the Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and Humanities.  Additionally, she has taught trumpet and horn at Victoria College in Victoria, Texas and was a teaching assistant at The University of Texas at Austin.
 
    At the University of Illinois, Professor Ennis was awarded the A.A. Harding Band Award and the Outstanding Performance Grant.  While at The University of Texas, she was awarded the Effie Potts-Sibley and Mary A. Seller-Yantis Endowed Presidential Scholarship as well as the Frank C. Erwin Jr. Centennial Professorship in Fine Arts Scholarship.

Professional memberships include the International Trumpet Guild, College Music Society, Music Teachers National Association and Texas Music Educators Association.  Dr. Ennis is a native of New York City and Northern Virginia.

To Contact Professor Ennis: Call 361.593.2803