Thomas Mensch
Director of Bands / Instructor of Trombone

Office: HPE-159 Phone: 903-510-2242 Fax: 903-510-2740 e-Mail: tmen@tjc.edu

Background

Originally from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, Tom Mensch is the Director of Bands and Instructor of Trombone at Tyler Junior College in Tyler, Texas. During his tenure, he has been the steward over the band programs tremendous growth as it has become one of the largest two year collegiate band programs in the country with nearly 200 students enrolled, performing in over eleven different ensembles. Before his appointment to T.J.C., Mr. Mensch served as director of bands at Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, Texas for one year and associate for three years and as Director of Bands at Mirabeau B. Lamar High School in Houston, Texas for three years.

Mr. Mensch’s teaching responsibilities includes, coordinating and rehearsing the Tyler Junior College Apache Marching Band, conducting the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Trombone Ensemble and teaching applied trombone lessons. Over the past four years, the Wind Ensemble has recorded new music for Twin Towers Publishing and has performed numerous tours and concerts performing some of the most challenging wind literature. Mr. Mensch has conducted numerous low brass and band clinics throughout North East Texas and has been the clinician for the Region 21 ATSSB Concert Band as well as the Region 4 1A, 2A Honor Band.

Mr. Mensch is an active performer on tenor trombone with the Rose City Brass Quintet, the East Texas Jazz Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Pines in Nacogdoches, Texas, a freelance musician throughout the East Texas Area, and maintains a teaching studio of talented collegiate and high school trombone students. In February of 2007 he was a guest artist at the First Annual Trombone Day at Southern Mississippi State University. He has performed with the Shreveport Symphony, South Arkansas Symphony, the Altoona Symphony, the Lexington Philharmonic, the Nittany Valley Symphony, Trombones @ Houston, the Tyler Big Band and the Fred Shannon Smith Big Band. He is currently pursuing his Masters Degree in Trombone Performance at Stephen F. Austin State University where he studies with Dr. Debra Scott. His teachers have included Tom Riccobono, Dr. Bruce Tychinski, Richard Brady and Mark Lusk. Mr. Mensch earned his Bachelor of Science in Music Education from the Pennsylvania State University in 1996, is a member of The Texas Music Educators Association, the International Trombone Association, the College Band Directors National Association, the Texas Bandmasters Association, Phi Mu Alpha, and Colonial Hills Baptist Church. Tom Mensch is happily married to his wife Heather and they have a dog named Alex.

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