Results for "Trumpet"

Scott Abrahamson

Based in New England, Scott Abrahamson is an accomplished performer, educator, and music industry businessman. Both a classically and jazz trained trumpeter, Scott demonstrates great versatility in a range of styles, and has performed extensively throughout the East Coast. He has also performed in the Mid-West, Canada, and Europe. To the latter, he performed at the North Sea and Montreux International Jazz Festivals in 1993. As a freelance musician in Southern New England, Scott has enjoyed enduring success in jazz combos, sacred music, big bands, chamber ensembles, and in pit orchestras

Jackson McGirr

Born: January 13, 1953

30 years of free-lance work in many genres both commercial and classical. 20 years in the hotels of the Catskill Mountains playing all variety of show music. 20 years of private teaching: all levels and ages, Trumpet & Trombone.

Dorian A Mohar

Born: November 15, 1983

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     Dorian Mohar is a seasoned trumpet teacher and performer with over 20 years of experience. He has a BM in Music Education, MM in Trumpet Performance, worked 5 years as a Music Director and lead trumpet player on Carnival Cruise lines and has continued freelance trumpet lifestyle. He now teaches trumpet online and from his home studio in Cherry Hill, NJ. He is also the owner of Triplo Press, one of the world’s largest publishing companies of trumpet ensemble music. In addition, he runs trumpet clinics for schools, where he teaches students how to improve their sound, endurance, jazz skills, ensemble playing, and trumpet ensemble creation

Thomas Vinnedge Jenkins

Born: May 17, 1928

Grew up in Beaumont. Student of Everette James (father of Harry James). Jobbed as a freelance player my entire life. Subbed on several name bands but never bought into the "great" deals offered. Spent 52 years in Higher Education Administration. Was music arranger for Vince DiNino and The University of Texas Longhorn Band. Retired and living in Wimberley.

Mattia Salvadori

Born: December 22, 1991

Mattia Salvadori, born in 1991 in Pontedera (Pisa, Italy). He has collaborated and played with different formations and he had the opportunity to expand his language by playing various genres as rhythm'n'blues, soul, blues, rock'n'roll, swing, folk, pop, jazz, surf rock, funk, house, edm, hip hop in many venues, festivals and squares both in Italy and abroad. He has been playing since 2010 with "Borrkia Big Band" (rock'n'roll, blues, soul) since 2015 with "Fuochi di Paglia" (songwriting, swing) and with "Zoostaff Live" (house, edm). He has studied with musicians like Fabrizio Bosso, Antonio Sanchez, Tom Harrell, Adam Cruz, Ugonna Okegwo, Danny Grissett, Steve Herrman, Charlie Wood, Sax Gordon, Fabio Morgera, Tony Cattano, Aldo Bassi, Alberto Marsico, Fabio Zeppetella, Manolo Nardi. He shared the stage with: Bandabardò, Sax Gordon, Igor Prado, Yuri Prado, Raphael Wressnig, Il Maniscalco Maldestro. He has opened concerts for: Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Charlie Musselwhite, Fabio Treves, Bandabardò, Osaka Monaurail, Paul Brown & His All Star Band, Bobby Rush, David Hudson, Latimore, Toni Green, Cesareo (Elio e le Storie Tese), Kutso, Cecco e Cipo.

Lwanda Gogwana

South African born jazz trumpeter and composer, Lwanda Gogwana fuses traditional Xhosa music with jazz harmonies and contemporary music elements in his compositions. Lwanda was born in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, the home of the Ama-Xhosa. He started his musical career at school, singing in school choirs, and taking lessons in both piano and trumpet. During his high school period, he toured Namibia and UK, whilst playing in a number of national youth bands of South Africa. He enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2005 for a Bachelor of music degree in composition and arrangement under Prof Peter Klatzow and Prof Mike Campbell, and received scholarship to study in Norway, Europe on exchange at the Norges Musikkhogskole based at the University of Oslo. During his professional career, he has played, & at most times composed for a number of artists and bands in South Africa, including the UCT big band, Abdullah Ibrahim’s Cape Town Jazz Orchestra, Standard Bank National Youth Jazz Band of 2007, the Tete Mbambisa band, Bokani Dyer, Lulama Gaulana, Simphiwe Dana, Neo Muyanga, Jimmy Dludlu, Steve Dyer, Moreira Chonguica, Ezra Ngcukana, Errol Dyers, Tete Mbambisa, Robbie Jansen, Bruce Cassidy, John Fedchock, Thandi Klaasen, Judith Sephuma, Marcus Wyatt, Nomfusi, Buddy Wells and Max Vidima and his very own composition based project, The Lwanda Gogwana Songbook. Having played at many festivals, including the Cape Town International Jazz festival, The Joy of Jazz festival in Johannesburg, The National Youth Jazz festival in Grahamstown, the Wigan Jazz Festival in England, still today, Lwanda continues to perform in and out of South Africa. Lwanda has also been involved in a couple of community building projects, including teaching and conducting workshops in and around Cape Town, and is also part of a youth run organization, RYTHM (reaching youth through music) that aims at promoting South African music to the youth

Elliot Bild

Born: April 18, 1993

Originally from Chicago, trumpeter, educator, and composer Elliot Bild got his undergraduate degree from Western Michigan University where he studied with Scott Cowan, Andrew Rathbun and Edward Simon. Shortly after, he completed his Masters Degree from Temple University where he studied with Terell Stafford, John Swana and Dick Oatts. In August 2017, Elliot was selected along with 14 other fellows to participate in the Ravinia Steins Music Institute, a week-long workshop focusing on composition where he worked with Rufus Reid, Nathan Davis and Billy Childs. Later that summer, Elliot attended the Banff Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music, where he had the chance to work with Gary Bartz, Jeremy Pelt, Vijay Iyer, Tyshawn Sorey, Robin Eubanks and Tia Fuller, among others

Charmaine Michelle

Charmaine Michelle doesn’t know how you and her arrived at this divine checkpoint together but she’s so glad you’re here and this audacious artist guarantees you will not leave unchanged. Whether as a trumpeter, composer, writer or spoken word artist Charmaine Michelle has a passion for using her creative gifts to uplift and enlighten her audiences. At the age of four, she began her musical journey in the children’s choir at First Baptist Church in Vienna, Virginia, where she developed a love for hymns and Negro spirituals. In elementary school, Charmaine Michelle first started playing the cello but later switched to the trumpet

Todd Schwartz

Born: January 24, 1963

Hilde Marie Holsen

Norwegian Hilde Marie Holsen has carved out something very particular and niche in music. Processing her trumpet in the electronic realm, she blends the mournful tone of the brass instrument with the explorative field of electronic music to make music that lists somewhere between jazz, the contemporary and drone music. Holsen’s music has unpicked the frayed boundaries of traditions, calling in a new generation of artists that abandoned stale and repetitive conventions in favour of establishing something unique, in the realms of contemporary music.

Holsen’s debut album «Ask» was released on the Norwegian label Hubro in 2015, and hit the shelves with critical acclaim from amongst others The Guardian, The Wire and The Quietus