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Trombonist and music educator Benjamin Yates is Associate Professor of Trombone at the ÌìÃÀÊÓƵ at Lafayette and teaches low brass at the Lutheran Summer Music Academy & Festival. At UL Lafayette, Dr. Yates holds the Heymann/BORSF Professorship, teaches lessons, coaches brass chamber music, conducts trombone chamber ensembles, and performs with the Louisiana Brass Quintet.

As a trombone clinician, Yates presents master classes throughout the U.S., Austria, Brazil, China, Japan, the Dominican Republic, and the United Arab Emirates. Students of Benjamin Yates become successful professional musicians and music educators throughout the United States and the world. He is a founding member of the Service Organization of Music Professors, which raises funds and collects donated instruments, music, and music equipment for music programs in disadvantaged communities.

Yates performs regularly with Louisiana symphonies, wind bands, and chamber ensembles, including the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra, Acadian Wind Symphony, and Chorale Acadienne. He has performed with the Grammy Award-winning and the Grammy-nominated . As an active soloist, Yates performs and presents master classes and recitals at high schools, colleges, and universities around the United States.

Dr. Yates is a artist and a trombone mouthpiece and lead pipe system artist.