Trumpet Players in the San Francisco Bay Area

This web page is an informal network of trumpet players in the San Francisco Bay Area. There are no officers, no dues, no scheduled

meetings, etc. In fact, this is not intended to be a formal organization of any kind, just a place for local trumpet players to keep in

touch with each other.

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Name / link to biography Email address / organization Primary phone # Secondary phone # Web site Teacher?

David Adams adamczykd49@gmail.com (650) 279-8034 cell (650) 969-0191 Web site Yes

Dick Akright dakright@agmusic.com (415) 827-2018 (510) 832-2452

Kyoko Baker kyokobaker2011@gmail.com (415) 447-7925

Chris Barnes Chrisbarnestrumpet@gmail.com (925) 586-5444 Web site Yes

Steve Beckner ssbtrumpet1@yahoo.com (650) 740-6562 (650) 740-6562 Yes

Stephen Bell sbell2003@gmail.com (650) 533-6516 (650) 533-6516 Yes

Eric Bolvin eric@bolvinmusic.com (408) 236-2009 Web site Yes

Burkhart, David SF Conservatory of Music Web site Yes

Russ Button russ@russbutton.com (510) 917-8451 (510) 769-2968 Web site

Danny Du Uy Cao caodanny@hotmail.com Web site

Guy James Clark guyclark@msn.com (408) 439-6256

Bill Cohendet Billcohendet@comcast.net (650) 347-5651 (650) 255-6886

Franklin Beau Davis ceo@brassworksmusic.us (510) 541-7993 (650) 226-3644 Web site Yes

Lionel Emde monkmusic2000@yahoo.com (650) 359-4433 (650) 739-5783 cell Web site

Robert Franklin robert_franklin@aerialservices.org (510) 889-1453 Web site

Galisatus, Mike galisatusm@smccd.edu (650) 574-6163 Web site Yes

Mancho Gonzalez Manchog@mac.com (503) 333-5547 Yes

Mario Guarneri mgtrumpet@aol.com (415) 531 7241 Web sites Yes

Rolf Johnson rolfj@aol.com (510) 593-3566 cell (510) 526-9266 Web site

Jay Jordan jjordan@serrahs.com (650 678-0905 Yes

John Kalleen john@johnkalleen.com (707) 364-9620 (707) 778-7082 Web site

Walt Keller Wcrwgk@aol.com (925) 699-7834

Dr. Jonathan Knight drjohnathanknight@gmail.com Yes

Chris Leaf info@unionmusiccompany.com (415) 775-6043 Web site

Rick Leder rick.leder@gmail.com (408) 375-0606 (650) 494-1352

Chris Marquis steptonit@yahoo.com (510) 599-6755

Bryce Martens bryce@martens.com (650) 574-2174 Web site

Doug Morton doug@gneo.net (415) 897-2570 (510) 917-9179 Web site

Mark Nemoyten mark@hearandnowaudio.com (415 ) 596-1741 (415) 892-0072 Web site Yes

Charles “Charlie” Newman charlesenewman@sbcglobal.net (707) 265-8183

Mike Olmos mike.olmos@gmail.com (510) 682-5285

John Pearson jfpearson@sbcglobal.net (510) 326-9402

Dave Rocha pensive@pacbell.net (510) 538-2106 Yes

Stephen Ruppenthal sruppent@earthlink.net (650) 208-3896 Web site

Dave Scott davelenscott@gmail.com (415) 948-5725 Web site Yes

Laura Shea-Clark laurasheaclark@yahoo.com (408) 439-6143

Doug Simon dsimon337@msn.com (650) 787-9021 Yes

Brian Switzer switzerb@gmail.com (855) JAZZDECK (650) 302-6350 Web site Yes

Attilio Tribuzi ttribuzi@gmail.com (650) 576-2515 Yes

Rick West rpwestdds@gmail.com (415) 383-3032

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“sftrumpet.net” domain name is registered to Bryce Martens. This page was last updated on March 24, 2018. If you have any updates or additions

to this page, please send a message to Bryce Martens at bryce@martens.com.

Bryce Martens

I’m the guy who likes to play second trumpet in a brass quintet. I’ve been doing just that since 1970 in the Royal Court Brass. I also

play in a couple of community groups on the Peninsula, including the Golden Gate Radio Orchestra and Paul Price’s Society

Orchestra. In addition, I do some brass quartet/quintet arranging and conducting.

My “day gig” is as a computer science instructor at College of San Mateo. I also work on special projects for the school’s workforce

development department, and serve as a liaison from CSM’s career education program to the K-12 schools in San Mateo County.

Previously, I worked at Signature Systems and Qantel Business Systems. I am a graduate of San Francisco State University (Statistics

and MBA).

Dave Rocha

Jazz musician and trumpet teacher.

Rick West

University of Minnesota Band 1961-64

Deutscher Musikverein of San Francisco 1981-present

Lionel Emde

Trumpet player, composer, arranger, extensive performance experience, brass instrument repairman, picture framer.

Here is a link to some of Lionel’s compositions: https://musescore.com/user/6200201

Attilio Tribuzi

Music Director, San Mateo High School

Arts Coordinator, San Mateo Union High School District

Franklin Beau Davis

Trumpeter/Arranger/Bandleader Franklin Beau Davis leads three of the Bay Area's finest musical groups: The Brassworks, Gabriel's

Trumpets, and The Memorial Brass. He performs with Symphony Parnassus, Golden Gate Park Band, The E-Ticket Band, Silicon Gulch

Jazz Band and the Kally Price Blues Band. Franklin is also Jazz Cornetist and Cabaret Band arranger at The Speakeasy.

(TheSpeakeasySF.com) An alumnus of Lowell High School and San Francisco State University, Franklin teaches all the brass

instruments at his studio in Belmont, at Skyline College, and at Manor Music in Pacifica.

John Kalleen

Jazz Trumpet-Flugelhorn

Stephen Ruppenthal

Stephen is Principal Trumpet and Contemporary Music Advisor for the Redwood Symphony, and has been Guest Artist-in-Residence

at numerous universities in the US, holding courses in Electronic Music Studio Arts and Composition at the Center for Experimental

and Interdisciplinary Art (SFSU). Stephen was a founding member of the Electric Weasel Ensemble, and more recently, SoundProof,

and is known internationally for his performances and writings on text-sound composition and sound poetry. Flamethrower, a CD of

new electroacoustic works for trumpet and flugelhorn performed by Stephen is currently available from Ravello Records.

Doug Morton

Doug's been in the Bay Area for a hundred years and has played with almost everybody - classical, jazz, show, ensembles, etc.

Charles Newman

Hobby musician, starting with cornet and piano at age 5. Played trumpet with Stockton High School and Stockton Jr. College Bands.

Play trumpet and cornet with Deutscher Music Verein of San Francisco since 1985. Now frequent "jammer" on cornet with

TRADJAZZ (Santa Rosa based), and played for a time with Russian River Ramblers (traditional jazz). Retired from employment and

business.

Rick Leder

Rick Leder Principal Trumpet at West Bay Opera; 2nd trumpet at Stockton Symphony; member of Altos Brass Quintet; freelance Bay

Area since 1999; Aspen Music Festival 2004/2006; Sarasota Opera 2009; Des Moines Metro Opera 2007/2008; Sub @ SF Opera;

Opera SJ; Oakland-East Bay Sym; Santa Cruz Sym; Santa Rosa Sym; Modesto Sym; Marin Sym; and elsewhere....

Mike Galisatus

Professor of Music, College of San Mateo

M.A., Music Education, San Francisco State University; B.A., Music, San Jose State University; California Single Subject Secondary, Life

Teaching Credential, San Jose State University

Chris Leaf

Chris Leaf Union Music Company 1710-B Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 Phone: (415) 775-6043 Fax: (415) 775-8432 http://www.unionmusiccompany.com info@unionmusiccompany.com Chris is a long-time trumpeter with Beach Blanket Babylon.

Robert Franklin

Air Force Band 1966-69, Local 5 member for many years, lots of tours and some studio, classical, jazz and rock.

Dave Scott

Studied with Armando Ghitalla at University of Michigan; toured with Glenn Miller Orchestra, Rosemary Clooney, Boz Scaggs; and is

the trumpet instructor at Sonoma State University.

Brian Switzer

Brian Switzer has been an active member of the Bay Area music community for over twenty-five years. At the age of thirteen, he

played his first real gig as a member of a professional orchestra pit for a musical at the Fox Theater. While teaching privately for over

twenty years, he has helped many students achieve college music scholarships and also led a public middle school jazz band to the

NextGen Festival in Monterey several times. In 2012 he accepted a position as the solo trumpet player for the GRAMMY® Award-

winning band Train. Two years, hundreds of performances around the world, and several live TV appearances later, Brian developed

and released JazzDeck, an innovative educational resource that has quickly become an international hit among players and teachers

of all ages and ability levels. He started the NorCal Jazz Camp in 2007 and enjoys teaching improvisation to large groups of students

each summer. He is also a music instructor at Carlmont High School in Belmont, and teaches lessons out of his studio in Burlingame.

Dr. Jonathan Knight

Music Faculty, Solano Community College & Diablo Valley College Conductor, Symphony Orchestra of Northern California Assistant Camp Director, Cazadero Music Camp

Jay Jordan

Jay Jordan is the Music Director at Junipero Serra High School and has been a freelance trumpet player in the Bay Area for nearly 40

years.

Mario Guarneri

Trumpet performer, entrepreneur, advocate.

Inventor of The Berp.

Founder of Jazz in the Neighborhood.

Laura Shea-Clark

Laura moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in January 2006 and currently plays with the Santa Cruz Ballet Symphony,

Stanford Philharmonia, Palo Alto Philharmonic, Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, and Lyric Theatre. She also freelances

with Santa Cruz Symphony and several other area groups.

Laura grew up with a cornet in her hands, learning her skills through the Salvation Army Bands, Music Camps, and

Festivals. She is a founding member of the all-female Athena Brass Band. Her teachers have included Peggy Payton-

Thomas, Stephen Squires, Ron Modell, and Mark Ponzo. Born in Chicago, she played with the Chicago Youth Orchestra,

Northbrook Symphony, Elmhurst Symphony, West Suburban Symphony and Chamber Orchestra, Salt Creek Sinfonietta,

Northbrook Brass Quintet, and several other orchestras and concert bands.

Laura played nine seasons with the six-time National Champion Illinois Brass Band, serving as principal solo cornet for

three years. She then joined the Chicago Brass Band, which was the 2004 National Champion, representing North

America in the World Brass Band Competition in Kerkrade, Netherlands. She also performed with the CBB Players, the

brass band's award-winning 10-piece brass ensemble. In 2005 Laura won the North American Brass Band Association

adult slow melody competition.

Laura holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Trumpet Performance and a Master of Arts in Library and Information Studies

from Northern Illinois University and is Library Services Manager at Mountain View Public Library in Mountain View,

California.

Guy Clark

Guy grew up in Northbrook, Illinois where he began playing trumpet at the age of nine. He studied trumpet with Yvonne

Harmon, Charles Geyer, Adolph "Bud" Herseth, and most recently, with Guy Piddington of the SFSO. While living in

Illinois, Guy held principal trumpet positions with Northbrook Symphony Orchestra, West Suburban Symphony, Lake

Forest Symphony, Highland Park Apple Tree Theatre, and many other groups.

He played more than ten years with the six-time National Champion Illinois Brass Band, serving as principal much of the

time. He also played principal and E-flat soprano cornet with the 2004 National Champion Chicago Brass Band and

performed with the CBB Players, the brass band’s award-winning 10-piece brass ensemble.

Guy is currently principal trumpet with the Santa Cruz Ballet Theatre Orchestra, Palo Alto Philharmonic, and San Jose

Lyric Theatre Orchestra, and a member of the San Francisco Wind Ensemble. He frequently plays principal trumpet with

the Santa Cruz Symphony Orchestra and freelances throughout the Bay Area. He premiered trumpet concerto written for

him and the Palo Alto Philharmonic by Bay Area composer Lee Actor on April 8th, 2017.

Guy holds Bachelors of Science degrees from the University of Illinois in Chicago, in Biology and Bio-Engineering, but has

had a career in electrical engineering. He is currently an electrical engineer at Power Integrations in San Jose.

Mark Nemoyten

Mark Nemoyten has been performing and teaching in the Bay Area for over 30 years. He is equally at home playing in

settings as diverse as symphony orchestras, jazz ensembles, pop, funk, folk music, chamber music, and as a soloist. See

his web site for a full biography.