IWBC 2027 Guest Artists

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Barbara Hull

Featured Trumpet Guest Artist

Barbara Hull

Barbara Hull is an assistant professor in residence of studio trumpet and holds a doctorate of musical arts in trumpet performance and literature from the Eastman School of Music, where she studied with James Thompson and was assistant conductor of the Eastman Brass Guild. She earned her master's degree at Eastman in the studio of Charles Geyer. She is a recipient of the Eastman Performer's Certificate, and, as a winner of Eastman's Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Concerto Competition, performed as soloist with the Eastman Wind Ensemble under Donald Hunsberger. Barbara also served as principal trumpet of the Eastman Wind Ensemble during a collaboration between the EWE and the Canadian Brass. The CD for that project, Manhattan Music, was released in 2008. Before joining the faculty at UNLV she lived in Rochester, NY where she taught applied trumpet and brass at Nazareth College and performed with Symphoria (formerly the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra). She also played regularly with the Skaneateles Summer Music Festival, Rochester Chamber Orchestra, and the Rochester Oratorio Society. Dr. Hull also teaches trumpet and music theory each summer at the Csehy Summer School of Music, which is held at Houghton College in Houghton, NY. Hull was Principal Trumpet with the Albany Symphony Orchestra from 1995-1998, recording with the orchestra under the Decca and Albany Records labels. She played with the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra from 2000-2003. While living in Albuquerque, she also performed regularly with the Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque, and Opera Southwest. She has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic and Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra. Hull is principal trumpet with Ensemble Monterey and has performed with the Modesto Symphony, Fremont Symphony, and the Grass Valley Music Festival. More information can be found on her website: barbarahulltrumpet.com Hull is a Yamaha performing artist.

Bria Skonberg

Featured Jazz Trumpet Guest Artist

Bria Skonberg

Bria Skonberg is a Juno-award winning artist, 10x Downbeat Rising Star, Jazz at Lincoln Center Swing! Awardee, and the 2022 recipient of the "Legend" Award by the Society for the Preservation of the Great American Songbook. The trumpeter, vocalist, and composer has been called the"shining hope of hot jazz" (NY Times) and is considered "one of the most versatile and imposing musicians of her generation." (WSJ) She has been a featured artist at hundreds of festivals and stages the world over, including New Orleans Jazz & Heritage, Monterey, Newport, and Montreal Jazz Festivals. The daughter of teachers, Bria was introduced to jazz by a spirited public school band program and local festival in her hometown of Chilliwack, British Columbia. A professional band leader since her teens, she moved to Vancouver and obtained her degree in Trumpet Performance from Capilano University. Since arriving in New York in 2010 she has been at the forefront of a revival of classic American music as both a performer and educator, programming concerts and workshops for students of all ages on behalf of Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, Jazz House Kids and more. Bria is an active mentor in the Women in Jazz Organization, Co-Director of the NY Hot Jazz Camp, a Bach Conn-Selmer artist, a board member of the International Trumpet Guild, and became a mother in 2020. Her seventh studio album What it Means was recorded in New Orleans with the Crescent City’s finest and was released to rave reviews in July, 2024