Bio

Shania Cordoba is an avid trumpet performer and educator. As a solo, chamber, jazz, and orchestral performer, Shania finds joy in collaboration and performance opportunities with other artists. Shania’s teaching pedagogy focuses on the intrinsic values that music holds; such as navigating hurdles, creative problem solving, and creating meaningful music.

As a performer, Shania has toured and performed around the United States, Asia, and Mexico. She has been accepted into the National Symphony Orchestra of the USA (2018), National Symphony Orchestra Summer Music Institute (2019), Sewanee Music Festival (2020), and Festival Napa Valley Blackburn Music Academy (2023). She has advanced to the live rounds of the National Trumpet Competition in the Large Trumpet Ensemble and Undergraduate Solo Divisions (2018, 2020). She also placed 3rd in the Next Generation Trumpet Competition featuring new works by Viet Cuong, Kevin Day, James David, Molly Joyce, and Liza Sobel (2021). Shania was a member of Hub City Brass, an undergraduate brass quintet based out of Lubbock, TX, who were finalist in the Mixed Wind Division at the Coltman Chamber Music Competition and were accepted into the Rafael Mendez Brass Institute in 2020. She also participated in brass quintets at the Yale School of Music, where they performed repertoire of all sorts of genres at lunchtime chamber concerts and educational outreach concerts.

As an educator, Shania has taught private lessons through her in-person and online studio, given masterclasses and led high school trumpet ensembles. She has been a trumpet instructor with Through the Staff (2020-2021), Texas Tech Band and Orchestra Camp (2021-2023), Yale’s Music in School’s Initiative (2022-2023), and at local high schools in El Paso, TX.

Shania currently studies with Justin Emerich at Michigan State University. She has had additional studies with Dr. Andrew Stetson and Richard Harris at Texas Tech University as well as Kevin Cobb at Yale University.

Shania hails from El Paso, Texas and currently resides in East Lansing, Michigan.