If I Were More Confident I Would...
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Copyright: 2025
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Copyright: 2025
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There is an epidemic of young people struggling with their personal confidence and developing their solid and unique identity. This disrupts decision making, relationships, and feelings of well-being for an entire life if left unattended.
This book gives clear descriptions of the challenges young people face and contains practical exercises and perceptual changes which enable a young person to start to systematically build their confidence and identity. This is the start of working toward becoming a confident and unique individual, able to rise to all challenges and thrive on the chosen path of their life.
Dr. Grant Manhart joined the Northern State University faculty in 1998. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Wisconsin, a Master’s Degree in Trumpet Performance and Jazz Studies from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and a Doctorate of Music in Trumpet Performance, Literature, and Performance, with minors in Jazz Studies and Music History from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His primary trumpet instructors were the legendary William Adam, Dominic Spera, Edmund Cord, Eugene Blee, Frank Brown, Scott Johnston, and Donald Whitaker. Other studies include Robert Nagel, Bobby Lewis, John McNeil, Bobby Shew, Charlie Davis, Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Roy Poper, Charles Schleuter, Claude Gordon, and Uan Rasey. His jazz studies include such luminaries as David Baker, Dominic Spera, Frank Brown, Rick Van Matre, and Richard Davis.
His performing career includes tours with Broadway shows, the Buddy Rich Band, Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, June Valli, Carmen Cavallero, the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus, performing as Roy Eldridge touring the United States with the Columbia Artists Gene Krupa Band, and a stint in Puerto Rico with the Latin Jazz group, Picante. As a bandleader, he has created hundreds of performing opportunities for professionals and students, including his touring brass and percussion group, the “Dominant 7,” a five time recipient of a South Dakota Touring Arts Grant. He is now an author, creating this e-book for Music Appreciation for Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Not content to merely perform, he has transcribed, arranged, or composed over two hundred different works for his jazz ensemble, symphonic band and the “Wolfpack Pep Band”. He has composed and recorded several commercials, using faculty and students at Northern State University as the vocal and instrumental recording artists. He has performed as a vocal talent for various media productions.
He is in demand as a clinician, speaker, and performer.
An ongoing learner and creator, he pursued opportunities in online course development and teaching, and created an online “Music Appreciation” course, which runs three sections every semester. He is currently developing a “History of Rock and Roll” course to be offered fall 2016. His energy unbounded, he created a local real estate business and continues to do so, and engages and sponsors entrepreneurs inside and outside the university.
He creates hardwood furniture and is a general handyman and builder. He gardens in the summers and has created a locally known hot sauce with the peppers he grows. His passions include fishing and lure making, and ice skating and playing with his four children: twins Logan and Chase, 21; Louis, 12; and Claire, 8. His wife, Marcia, is an accomplished pianist, runs the house, his life, the children, and the real estate from their hobby farm outside Aberdeen. Dr. Manhart lost his wife Nicole to cancer in 2000 when their twins were 2, in his second year at Northern State University.
There is an epidemic of young people struggling with their personal confidence and developing their solid and unique identity. This disrupts decision making, relationships, and feelings of well-being for an entire life if left unattended.
This book gives clear descriptions of the challenges young people face and contains practical exercises and perceptual changes which enable a young person to start to systematically build their confidence and identity. This is the start of working toward becoming a confident and unique individual, able to rise to all challenges and thrive on the chosen path of their life.
Dr. Grant Manhart joined the Northern State University faculty in 1998. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Trumpet Performance from the University of Wisconsin, a Master’s Degree in Trumpet Performance and Jazz Studies from the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, and a Doctorate of Music in Trumpet Performance, Literature, and Performance, with minors in Jazz Studies and Music History from Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. His primary trumpet instructors were the legendary William Adam, Dominic Spera, Edmund Cord, Eugene Blee, Frank Brown, Scott Johnston, and Donald Whitaker. Other studies include Robert Nagel, Bobby Lewis, John McNeil, Bobby Shew, Charlie Davis, Jerry Hey, Gary Grant, Roy Poper, Charles Schleuter, Claude Gordon, and Uan Rasey. His jazz studies include such luminaries as David Baker, Dominic Spera, Frank Brown, Rick Van Matre, and Richard Davis.
His performing career includes tours with Broadway shows, the Buddy Rich Band, Carol Channing, Rita Moreno, June Valli, Carmen Cavallero, the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus, performing as Roy Eldridge touring the United States with the Columbia Artists Gene Krupa Band, and a stint in Puerto Rico with the Latin Jazz group, Picante. As a bandleader, he has created hundreds of performing opportunities for professionals and students, including his touring brass and percussion group, the “Dominant 7,” a five time recipient of a South Dakota Touring Arts Grant. He is now an author, creating this e-book for Music Appreciation for Kendall Hunt Publishing.
Not content to merely perform, he has transcribed, arranged, or composed over two hundred different works for his jazz ensemble, symphonic band and the “Wolfpack Pep Band”. He has composed and recorded several commercials, using faculty and students at Northern State University as the vocal and instrumental recording artists. He has performed as a vocal talent for various media productions.
He is in demand as a clinician, speaker, and performer.
An ongoing learner and creator, he pursued opportunities in online course development and teaching, and created an online “Music Appreciation” course, which runs three sections every semester. He is currently developing a “History of Rock and Roll” course to be offered fall 2016. His energy unbounded, he created a local real estate business and continues to do so, and engages and sponsors entrepreneurs inside and outside the university.
He creates hardwood furniture and is a general handyman and builder. He gardens in the summers and has created a locally known hot sauce with the peppers he grows. His passions include fishing and lure making, and ice skating and playing with his four children: twins Logan and Chase, 21; Louis, 12; and Claire, 8. His wife, Marcia, is an accomplished pianist, runs the house, his life, the children, and the real estate from their hobby farm outside Aberdeen. Dr. Manhart lost his wife Nicole to cancer in 2000 when their twins were 2, in his second year at Northern State University.