Personal Statement

I love to share music with others and to help them enjoy their learning process and make music. I had the fortune to study trumpet with the greatest Bobby Shew and Improv with John Benitez at my master?s degree. I am a professional trumpet player and singer but this journey of learning never ends.

At the age of 11, I learned to play the trumpet at my school. When I was 14 years old I was selected to be the lead trumpet player in a Jazz big band where many schools were participating, in a f...