James Boldin is Assistant Professor of Horn and Music History at the University of Louisiana Monroe, where he teaches applied horn and music history courses, and performs with the Chamber Arts Brass. He earned D.M.A. and M.M. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a B.M. degree from Appalachian State University. Prior to joining the faculty at ULM, he held positions at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse as a Lecturer in Music and the University of Wisconsin-Madison as a Teaching Assistant. He has performed and presented at the Southeast Horn Workshop and has presented clinics at the Louisiana Music Educators Association State Convention. Dr. Boldin’s primary teachers include Douglas Hill and Dr. Karen Robertson.
An active orchestral musician, Dr. Boldin performs with the Monroe Symphony Orchestra as principal horn and the Rapides Symphony Orchestra as third horn. During the 2008-2009 season, he was contracted to perform as second horn in the Shreveport Symphony Orchestra. He has worked extensively with orchestras in Wisconsin such as the Madison, La Crosse, Green Bay, Manitowoc, and Oshkosh Symphony Orchestras, and with the Asheville Symphony in North Carolina. As a soloist, he has performed Richard Strauss's Horn Concerto No. 1 with the Camerata Chamber Orchestra in Madison, Wisconsin. In addition, Dr. Boldin has presented master-classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Summer Music Clinic, at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, and Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Recording credits include two CDs on the Summit Records label, Soliloquies, featuring euphonium soloist Demondrae Thurman, and Forbes Plays Koetsier, featuring tuba soloist Mike Forbes. Additional recordings include James Dick Plays Edvard Grieg, with the Texas Festival Orchestra conducted by JoAnn Falletta, and Overtures from Overture Hall, with the Madison Symphony Orchestra conducted by John DeMain. Dr. Boldin has also published articles in The Instrumentalist Magazine and The Horn Call: The Journal of the International Horn Society.
Boldin is a member of Pi Kappa Lambda and The International Horn Society.