Dr. James Sims

James Sims is an active free-lance musician in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. He is principal trumpet in the East Texas Symphony and the Wichita Falls Symphony. He also plays with the Dallas Wind Symphony and can be heard on most of the DWS recordings. In addition to those classical venues, James Sims plays for Casa Mañana Musicals in Ft. Worth.

He has been featured as a soloist with several area orchestras performing the Arutunian, Haydn and Hummel Trumpet Concertos. He was trumpet soloist in the world premiere of Double Talk: A Concerto for Marimba, Trumpet and Orchestra by Kenji Bunch. He also premiered a work for trumpet and piano titled Three Temps, by Michael Cox. He also recently premiered a concerto by Kerry Jones written in memory of their high school band director. James has also had the privilege of performing a duet with Alan Vizzuti on a Plano Symphony concert and has played Leroy Anderson’s Bugler’s Holiday with Doc Severinson on a Waco Symphony concert.

James Sims earned a Doctor of Musical Arts from The University of Texas at Austin, where he studied trumpet with Ray Crisara. His treatise title was The Analysis of the Trumpet Works of Andre Jolivet, with Special Emphasis on Their Performance. He also received a Master’s of Music degree from UT. His Bachelor’s degree is from Baylor University.