Black Bayou Brass (formerly the Chamber Arts Brass) has been a faculty ensemble in residence at the University of Louisiana at Monroe since 1971. Its current members are Alex Noppe, trumpet, James Boldin, horn, and Micah Everett, trombone. An experienced and versatile professional ensemble, Black Bayou Brass regularly performs concerts and recitals at ULM and in the northeast Louisiana community, as well as at conferences throughout the region. Its members are dedicated to performing, promoting, and even creating new literature for brass trio, in addition to playing standard original repertoire and transcriptions from the 16th century to the present.

Devoted to encouraging and promoting music education, Black Bayou Brass performs a number of educational concerts each year at schools throughout Louisiana and the surrounding states, in addition to offering master classes, private lessons, and ensemble coaching for high school students. The group serves as ambassadors for the University of Louisiana at Monroe, encouraging students and others attending their performances to Discover ULM.

The Lunte/Seiler Duo has performed since 1997 for national flute conventions, numerous sate and regional flute festivals and as guest artists at the University of Mississippi, Delta State University, Rhodes College, University of New Orleans, Northwestern State University and other institutions of higher learning across the south.

The Ouachita Trio is one of the longest-established chamber ensembles based in the School of Visual and Performing Arts’ Division of Music at The University of Louisiana at Monroe, having toured in Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  The Trio consists of Instructor of Music Mark McCleery, an active soloist, chamber artist, and orchestral cellist throughout the Mid-South; Assistant Professor of Music Scot Humes, principal clarinetist of the Monroe Symphony, and frequent performer with the Shreveport Symphony; and Associate Professor of Music Richard Seiler, pianist, and coordinator of ULM Keyboard Studies.