Pentecost Lutheran Church - Racine, WI

Our trumpeters play at most Sunday morning and special services. Children are invited to join us as soon as they feel able to play along on the hymns. Former members and guests are always welcome and often bring their instruments along and join in when they come to visit.

Tom Hasko has been playing his trumpet at Pentecost from the time he started taking lessons in 5^th grade at Concordia. With a lot of encouragement from the Daves (Babel and Graves), Tom started playing regularly and took over their encouraging job for other instrumentalists when they went on to college. In the past few years he had the pleasure of teaching and encouraging his own son to play trumpet for church. Tom and Dan now play just about every Sunday. Today, Tom does much of the transposing and coordinating for our young musicians.

Dan Hasko wanted to play his trumpet for church from the time he was old enough to hold a toy one. He watched everything the “big guys” did and took lessons from his father until he was old enough to take band in school. His big chance finally came when he was in 3^rd grade. All the big guys were gone and he got to play along on the closing hymn. Today, Dan plays just about every Sunday and special service.

John Warder is our most experienced trumpeter. He started at age 6 with accordion, then cornet in 4^th grade and trumpet in 8^th grade. He majored in Music Education, with a Trumpet performance emphases, at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl. While at FSU, he studied under Dr. Clifford Madsen and Robert T. Braunagel. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education degree. Over the years he has played with several professional entertainment groups. From 1991 through the present, he is lead trumpet in The Nightshift Orchestra, Chicago, IL. Since joining Pentecost, John plays for church when his schedule allows.

Scott Hensel started playing trumpet for church in 1981 while growing up in Michigan.  He went on to perform in high school concert, jazz, and marching bands as well as many solo and ensemble festivals.  Scott was also a member of the Eastern Michigan University marching band and basketball spirit band, even playing at NCAA's Sweet Sixteen Tournament in 1991. Scott says he is grateful for the opportunity to play regularly at Pentecost.