Brian Chahley (21) is a young, eager jazz trumpeter Born in Toronto, but currently living in New York City attending the New School. He is worked last year on the administration team for the Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific, while performing for a third year with the all-star ensemble, the Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet. (see http://www.brubeckinstitute.org for more details).
Influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Clifford Brown, he took up the trumpet at age 12, and since then has studied with Chase Sanborn, Stanley Rosenzweig, Freddie Hubbard, Louis Fasman, Nicholas Payton and Don Johnson. Brian's father Chris and his mother Lisa were both on the Toronto jazz scene in the 1980's, and got Brian interested in jazz. Brian's accomplishments include being the first Canadian ever selected to play in the Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY High School Jazz Ensembles in Los Angeles AND being the only person in the history of the band to sit in the “jazz chair” twice in a row, playing in Toronto Jazz Festivals, playing in the North Sea Jazz Festival in Amsterdam, the Atlantic Jazz Festival in Nova Scotia, playing with Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band, soloing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and attending the Dave Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony in Stockton, California.
Brian has played and performed with such jazz notables as Benny Golson, Greg Tardy, Christian McBride, Freddie Hubbard, Nicholas Payton, Frank Morgan, Jerry Bergonzi, Clark Terry, Kurt Elling, Gerald Wilson, Geoff Keezer, Mulgrew Miller, and Roy Hargrove. Brian plays a Conn Connstellation 38B trumpet with a Monette B2 mouthpiece.
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