Colter Weatherholtz has extensive performance and teaching experience and has served as the Adjunct Professor of Trombone at Southern Nazarene University, Senior Faculty Instructor for Trombone and Low Brass for the University of Central Oklahoma's Central Community Music School, and is highly sought after as a private instructor and clinician at schools throughout the Oklahoma City metro area.
As a music educator, Colter brings more than a decade of performance and teaching experiences to students of all ages. His instruction has helped students achieve superior ratings at contests and successfully audition for honor bands and college scholarships. Some of the honors his students have recently received include: superior ratings at OSSAA Regional and State Solo and Ensemble Contests, membership in top ensembles and honor bands including the Oklahoma Music Educators Association CODA and All-State Bands, OBA Jazz Band, Oklahoma Youth Jazz Ensemble (OYJE), Oklahoma Youth Orchestra (OYO), Quartz Mountain Summer Arts Institute Orchestra, Oklahoma City Community Orchestra and Symphonic Band, and more. His students have also earned numerous scholarships to summer music programs and universities throughout Oklahoma and surrounding states. Many of Colter's former students have gone on to pursue music education and aspire to be successful musicians and teachers.
As a freelance trombonist, Colter has enjoyed an active and divers performance career for more than a decade and continues to be highly sought after as a perfromer throughout the Oklahoma City and Dallas metro areas.
Colter has performed with many of the world's most accomplished musicians including: Grammy Award winning artists, Sandi Patty and Brad Leali; Grammy Nominated artists, Toby Keith and Pete Christlieb; Academy Award winner, Shirley Jones; Van Cliburn Competition Gold Medalist, Valery Kuleshov; TV and Broadway stars, Patrick Cassidy, Debbie Boone, and J. Mark McVey; award winning composer, Susan Botti; and Acclaimed Music Educators, Tony Baker, Dr. Kent Kidwell, Lee Rucker, Brian Gorrell, and Jeff Kidwell.
Colter has been a member of a variety of renowned ensembles including: The University of North Texas 3 O'Clock Lab Band, Utubes Jazz Trombone Ensemble, Edmond Jazz Orchestra, Pecos River Brass, Souled Out Rock/Dance Band, Time Machine Rock/Dance Band, Joe Wright Big Band, Brad Leali/Shelley Carroll Bid Band, University of Central Oklahoma Brass Quintet, Crossings Community Church Orchestra, Sooner Theatre Productions, Rose STate Theatre Productions, and more.
Colter has performed at Carnegie Hall and Cowboys Stadium, as the opening act for Third Eye Blind, The University of North Texas 1 O'Clock Lab Band, and Galen Jeter's Original Dallas Jazz Orchestra, and for celebrity audiences that have included Dallas Cowboys Quarterback Tony Romo and Former President George W. Bush.
Colter can be heard on the following recordings: A Legacy Rediscovered: The Music of Ernest S. Williams and Time Machine Vol. 4.
Colter holds a Bachelor of Music in Trombone Performance from the University of Central Oklahoma where he was a membor of UCO's highly regarded Jazz Ensemble 1 under the direction of Lee Rucker and the acclaimed UCO Wind Symphony. Colter has also studied at the prestigious Univerity of North Texas where he was a member of the 3 O'Clock Lab Band and the Utubes Jazz Trombone Ensemble.
Colter has studied with Dr. Kent Kidwell, Jeff Kidwell, Steve Wiest, Tony Baker, Lee Rucker, Brian Gorrell and Mike Steinel.
Colter performs exclusively on Greg Black Custom Mouthpieces and Conn Trombones. He endorses Glenn Cronkhite Custom Cases and products from K&M, Korg, and Hercules.
Colter believes in building better communities through involvement in music and seeks to provide excellence in music through personalized instruction and performance.