Micah Everett is Professor of Low Brass at the University of Mississippi. Author of The Low Brass Player’s Guide to Doubling (Mountain Peak Music, 2014), he performs regularly as a solo or ensemble musician on alto, tenor, and bass trombones, baritone horn, euphonium, and tuba. He is principal trombonist in the North Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, tubist/bass trombonist in the Mississippi Brass Quintet, and an S.E. Shires trombone artist. His two-volume recording series, Stepping Stones for Bass Trombone (Potenza Music, 2015, 2022) has become a standard resource for students preparing for auditions, recitals, and competitions. Besides performing and teaching, Everett serves as Interim Director of Music at College Hill Presbyterian Church in Oxford, and recently completed a twenty-year tenure as Assistant Editor (Audio/Video Reviews) of the International Trombone Association Journal. His arrangements have been published by Potenza Music, Cimarron Music Press and TAP Music, and his articles have appeared in the ITA Journal, the NACWPI Journal, The Instrumentalist, and School Band and Orchestra Magazine. Everett received the Doctor of Musical Arts and Master of Music degrees from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and the Bachelor of Music Education degree from Delta State University. His primary teachers at the university level were Randy Kohlenberg, Dennis AsKew, and Edward R. Bahr.

Michael Wilkinson is Assistant Professor of Trombone at the University of South Carolina. Locally, he plays Lead Trombone for the South Carolina Jazz Masterworks, Acting Principal Trombone with the South Carolina Philharmonic, and Principal Trombone with the South Carolina Brass Band. Regionally, he has performed with the Charleston, Charlotte, Hilton Head, and Aiken Symphony Orchestras, and gone on several weekend tours in SC, NC, & VA with the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Previously, Michael was Assistant Professor of Trombone and Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida, Visiting Instructor of Trombone at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, NY, and Faculty Associate in Jazz Studies at Arizona State University (where he completed MM and DMA degrees in Trombone Performance). Before graduate school, he taught middle school band for 8.5 years in Tucson, AZ. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from the University of Arizona, and is an alumnus of the 1996 Disney/Grammy All-American College Jazz Band. Michael’s first solo CD, "Wait for Me!,” was released in 2017 on Random Act Records, he is a featured jazz soloist on Brass Band of Central Florida’s “15”, and will be heard on the soon to be released A Step Ahead with NewStream Brass (a collective of top classical and jazz brass players from around the US). Michael is an S.E. Shires trombone artist, plays everything from alto to contrabass trombones, and has studied with Tom Ervin, Gail Wilson, Ralph Sauer, and Sam Pilafian.

Doubling on multiple low brass instruments is a topic of great interest and importance to low brass players. Besides the simple enjoyment of varied repertoire and performance opportunities afforded to those able to perform on multiple instruments, increasingly competitive job markets for both performing and teaching work dictate that musicians with the most diverse skill sets will be the ones that find themselves gainfully employed. The Insanity Brass Duo, consisting of low brass professors and S.E. Shires trombone artists Michael Wilkinson (University of South Carolina) and Micah Everett (University of Mississippi, also author of The Low Brass Player’s Guide to Doubling), demonstrates effective low brass doubling through a fun and variegated recital program for multiple instruments. This unique ensemble was first conceptualized in 2015 when the two members met at the Alessi Seminar, but did not come to fruition for several years; the first concerts were held at universities in Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina in 2019 and 2020, followed by an appearance at the International Trombone Festival in 2021. The duo’s 2024 program requires the use of sixteen instruments, with Wilkinson performing on alto, tenor, bass, and contrabass trombones, euphonium, double-bell euphonium, and cimbasso, and Everett performing on alto, tenor, and bass trombones, baritone horn, euphonium, double-bell euphonium and tuba. Their repertoire includes a variety of original works and arrangements for low brass from the past four centuries, from both classical and commercial genres.