Gerard Heroux, formerly an adjunct faculty at Brown University in French horn, is a published composer and arranger and an instructor\/performer of French horn, trumpet, and bass guitar. A music director for several area theaters, he was formerly publicity director for the music department and a conducting assistant for the URI Symphonic Wind Ensemble.<\/p>\n
He has an extensive background in music resource management, including printed music for solo, ensemble and instructional areas, with specialized training in instrument repair, digital and analog recording, and technical maintenance.<\/p>\n
Heroux oversees a million dollars of equipment inventory, coordinates the scheduling of all URI concerts, recitals and festivals, and supervises a resource center serving 3,000 students annually. Heroux plays Eb alto horn in the Providence Brigade Band, a group that recreates in look and sound a typical mid-19th-century brass band. He also plays French horn, trumpet and sings in V. Majestic, a five-piece improvisational music ensemble.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":958,"featured_media":3013,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"peoplegroups":[40],"class_list":["post-2506","people","type-people","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","peoplegroups-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/2506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/people"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/2506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11149,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/people\/2506\/revisions\/11149"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"peoplegroups","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/peoplegroups?post=2506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}