SCORE Classical Music Appreciation Concert

Multi-genre international trumpet soloist JOE BURGSTALLER connects with audiences throughout the world with his captivating sound, dazzling virtuosity and engaging personality.  Burgstaller tours worldwide as a soloist, as a chamber musician, a crossover artist, a guest orchestral musician, and as a clinician with his groundbreaking masterclasses for all instruments called “Change Your Mind, Change Your Playing®”. Joe Burgstaller is a Yamaha Performing Artist.

Burgstaller was a child prodigy, beginning the cornet between at age five. By age twelve he was improvising jazz and soloing with area bands and jazz clubs, and by fifteen was the youngest professional in the Virginia Opera Orchestra. He received both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees from Arizona State University (studying with Regents’ Professor David Hickman) and was awarded Arizona State University’s Inaugural “Distinguished Alumnus Award” and the Inaugural “Outstanding Alumnus Award” from Eastern Music Festival.