Instructor of Music
Trumpet, Introduction to Music

Dr. Randall D. Haynes, a native of Miamisburg, Ohio, currently serves as Instructor of Music at the University of South Alabama, where his duties include teaching applied trumpet and Introduction to Music. He has received degrees from The Florida State University (D.M.), the University of Florida (M.M.) and Wright State University (B.M.). Dr. Haynes also attended the College-Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. His primary teachers include Bryan Goff, Christopher Moore, Joyce Davis, Karl Sievers and Alan Siebert.

As a soloist, Haynes has performed throughout the United States. Accomplishments include solo performances with various symphony orchestras and concert bands, as well as a recent solo appearance at Great American Ball Park for a Cincinnati Reds baseball game. He placed third in the National Trumpet Competition in 1999 and was a semi-finalist each year from 1998-2002 in the same contest.  Dr. Haynes was the first prize winner of the Lima (Ohio) Symphony Young Artist Competition in 1999 and placed first in the Ohio Federation of Music Clubs Student Audition Competition in 1996. 

Dr. Haynes is currently second/associate principal trumpet in Sinfonia Gulf Coast in Destin, Florida.  Other orchestral posts have included the Tallahassee Symphony Orchestra, Central Florida Symphony, Central Florida Philharmonic, Southwest Florida Symphony, Middletown Symphony and Springfield Symphony.

In his spare time, Haynes serves as a staff writer for the Recording Reviews column of the International Trumpet Guild Journal and enjoys editing unpublished manuscripts of baroque composers. His doctoral treatise is a critical edition of Christoph Graupner’s Sinfonia in D, GWV 511.

Dr. Haynes resides in Tallahassee, Florida with his wife and two daughters.