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Billy Buss

Freelance Trumpeter, Educator, Composer

About Me

Playing trumpet and piano since the age of nine and studying jazz since age 11, Berkeley, California native Billy Buss is emerging as in-demand artist and educator. After graduating Summa Cum Laude from both the Berklee College of Music in 2009 (B.A. in Professional Music) and The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at Loyola University of New Orleans in 2011 (M.A. in Music), Billy transplanted his performing and teaching endeavors to the Greater Manhattan Area.

Buss has received numerous awards from DownBeat Magazine, The National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts (NFAA) and The White House. His talents and dedication have allowed him the opportunity to perform around the world at such venues as the Monterey, Umbria, Montreux and JVC Jazz festivals; the Dubrovnik Summer Music Festival in Croatia; numerous festivals in Japan; the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.; a variety of clubs in Boston and New York, the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, and the Forbidden City Concert Hall in Beijing, China – the former two as part of a State Department sponsored tour with legends Herbie Hancock and Dee Dee Bridgewater.

In addition to a long list of performance opportunities, Buss has spent the last 7 years developing his own teaching curriculum which expounds upon numerous subjects that have dominated his studies: Brass Technique (Jazz and Classical), Improvisation Techniques, Harmony and Theory, Ear Training, Composition, Arranging and Performance Techniques. Billy honed this curriculum, traveling throughout the Gulf Coast region bringing knowledge, fun and discourse through jazz music to underprivileged and under-funded schools in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Over the past year, while keeping a rigorous teaching schedule, he has worked with a wide range of artists, touring nationally with Alice Tan Ridley (acclaimed R&B singer, entertainer and America’s Got Talent semifinalist) and performing with Deltron3030 (alternative hip-hop supergroup), Dayna Stephens (Internationally acclaimed Jazz Saxophonist and Bandleader) and The Jazz Mafia (Groundbreaking orchestral collective).

My Jazz Story

http://jazzm77.wix.com/billybuss1 Happy to announce the availability of my debut album, "Scenes From A Dream" on iTunes, Bandcamp, Amazon and CDBABY!!