The new york trumpet ensemble

During the 1980s, The New York Trumpet Ensemble produced a number of baroque trumpet recordings and performed with The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The Madeira Bach Festival and the Vermont Mozart Festival. In the 1990s, Mark Gould assumed the leadership of the ensemble and changed the direction of the music. In 1991, The New York Trumpet Ensemble recorded “Trumpets In Stride” (Summit Records; iTunes) and a new era was born. The ensemble began to perform traditional jazz arranged for the unusual combination of four trumpets, piano and tuba. Their concerts of the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Duke Ellington, Bix Biederbecke and Hoagy Carmichael were very popular throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. A few years later, The New York Trumpet Ensemble was retired when Gould’s first son was born. The demands of family and the Metropolitan Opera were too much for the group and it was disbanded, to be re-born in 2010. The group and its members have made multiple appearances at Scranton in both performance and educational settings.

Gould has been very active as a trumpet soloist and conductor. He has conducted and performed as soloist with the Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony, Colorado Philharmonic, Buffalo Symphony, The Juilliard Wind Ensemble, The Waterloo Festival, The Caramoor Festival and the Vermont Mozart Festival Orchestra. In 2001, he was the conductor of the Juilliard Wind Ensemble in the recording “Shadowcatcher” on New World Records, which features the work of Juilliard composers Eric Ewazen and William Schumann. In 2004 & 2005 he conducted The Manhattan School of Music Wind Ensemble in programs of Stravinsky, Antheil, Frank Zappa, Grainger, Ligeti, and Bernstein. In 2005, Gould was appointed as the music director of the Brass Band of Battle Creek, America’s premiere brass band. He also founded and directs The Manhattan School of Music Brass Orchestra and in 2011 co-founded and now co-directs The Scranton Brass Orchestra.

Gould has led an active life in chamber music. He is the director of The New York Trumpet Ensemble and has recorded six albums with them. The most recent, “All Praise Be Thine,” was released on the 8 Bells Label. He has appeared and recorded with numerous high profile chamber music groups and ensembles. He has been a frequent guest with Speculum Musicae, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, The MET Chamber Ensemble, Empire Brass, Canadian Brass, Summit Brass, The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble and Extension Ensemble.

Gould has performed as a soloist on many recordings. His most recent solo release is “Café 1930,” an album of trumpet and guitar music on the Angel/EMI label. As principal trumpet of The Metropolitan Opera, he participated in more than 40 “Live from Lincoln Center” performances on PBS and numerous audio recordings of operas and symphonic works under the direction of James Levine, among which were the Grammy Award-winning recordings of “The Ring of the Nibelung” and “Parsifal” for Deutsche Grammophon. He has performed and recorded Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto #2” with Philharmonia Virtuosi for Sony Records.

A member of The New York Trumpet Ensemble since 2010, Hudson serves as principal trumpet of Symphony in C and has performed with The New World Symphony, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, New York Trumpet Ensemble, Ensemble ACJW, and the American Brass Quintet, and has performed at the Verbier Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Music Academy of the West. An avid baroque musician, Caleb has delivered performances with acclaimed historical performance ensembles including Philharmonia Baroque, American Bach Soloists, The American Classical Orchestra, San Francisco Bach Choir, and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra. He is also a member of The Kyle Athayde Big Band.

A native of Lexington, Ky., Hudson won multiple first prizes in the National Trumpet Competition - in the solo division in 2001 and 2004, and as a member of The Juilliard Trumpet Ensemble in 2009 and 2010, and was also a winner of the National Foundation for the Advancement in the Arts Award. He has made multiple appearances on the Public Radio International Program “From The Top,” performed as a soloist with the Lexington Philharmonic, and served as principal trumpet of the World Youth Symphony Orchestra.

Committed to educational outreach and serving under-served populaces, Hudson has received The Juilliard School’s Goldman Fellowship to support his educational outreach activities to the underserved, and he is active in multiple educational outreach programs throughout the city as both a performer and educator.

Boga joined The New York Trumpet Ensemble in fall 2010, and also performs with The Wycliffe Gordon Big Band; The Kyle Athayde Dance Party; and others. Recent performances include The Wycliffe Gordon Big Band’s recording for and appearance in the upcoming documentary film “Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings The Band.”

As a composer/arranger, Boga has had works premiered and performed in the U.S. and abroad, and has written for big band, brass band, jazz combo, string orchestra, and choir. Educational outreach activities last year took him to schools, universities, and music camps in six states. He has been a member of the faculty of The Scranton Brass Seminar, a member of the teaching staff of the 2011 Juilliard Jazz Camp in Atlanta, Ga., and offered clinics at COTA CampJazz as a part of The Delaware Water Gap Celebration of the Arts programs.

A native of Chinchilla, Pa., Joseph has appeared as a student guest performer with The Wynton Marsalis Quartet. Boga has received a number of musical and academic awards and honors, among them acceptance to the orchestral trumpet section in The Eastern Music Festival in summer of 2012, the position of principal trumpet for the 2009 MENC All-Eastern Orchestra, The Phil Woods COTACats Award, and the PMEA D9 William Gasbarro Award.  Joseph also plays piano and bass.

Jodrell has performed in many of the most famous jazz clubs in New York City including the Blue Note, Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, Smoke Jazz Club, Smalls, and the Iridium Jazz Club, and has performed with artists such as Benny Golson, Frank Foster, Branford Marsalis, Carl Allen, Carmen Lundy, Terri-Lyn Carrington, James Williams, Josh Roseman, Bill Watrous, Gary Bartz, Andy Milne, Terence Blanchard, Terell Stafford, Graeme Lyall, Don Burrows, and toured the world with James Morrison for many years with his ‘On The Edge’ project. Also a composer, in 2003 Matthew was commissioned by the Perth Jazz Society to composed a 40 minute work featuring Australian Jazz legend Allan Browne and a seven piece ensemble. The work was recorded for radio, and its musical intention was to fuse elements of traditional jazz, Australian jazz history, and modern harmony and concepts.

Last year Matthew led a concert at the Blue Note in NYC to celebrate the music of Freddie Hubbard, featuring the legendary saxophonist / flautist James Spaulding. He also toured Europe with Paul Anka and performed on Broadway with the musical 'Hair'.

Mat received numerous accolades in his youth, including the 1996 NFAA Clifford Brown/Stan Getz Fellowship (five finalists chosen worldwide), the 1998 Young Australian of the Year Awards, the 1998 James Morrison scholarship for most outstanding young Australian Jazz instrumentalist, and the Bob Wyllie scholarship for best graduating student.

Kyle plays vibraphone, piano, trumpet, and drums professionally, and plays congas, timbales, bass, bass clarinet, sousaphone, and vocal percussion. He also composes and arranges music in a wide variety of genres, especially jazz, classical, funk and electronic. Committed to an inter-disciplinary approach to the arts, Kyle has collaborated extensively with performers and directors in the fields of theater, film, television and dance, and he also performs as a dancer. His interests also extend to the disciplines of Math, Physics, Astronomy, World History, Religion, Government, and Music History.

Kuehn has performed around the world at a variety of acclaimed jazz festivals and concert venues, including a performance at the White House with Billy Taylor, and a performance at Carnegie Hall with Jonathan Batiste. His discography includes Jonathan Batiste's Live at the Rubin Museum, In the Night, and The Amazing Jonathan Batiste; Brandon Lee's From Within; Justin Kauflin's Introducing Justin Kauflin; Bryan Carter’s Enchantment; and Cyrille-Aimee Daudel's Live at Smalls, as well as several recordings of the Juilliard Jazz Ensembles.