AboutOfficial Site: http://www.sfsymphony.org/templates/artist.asp?nodeid=302&callid=65&roleid=11Mark J. Inouye is one of a very select group of trumpeters, equally at home in the worlds of classical and jazz music. After attending the University of California, at Davis for two years as a civil engineering major, Mr. Inouye transferred to the Juilliard School. He has played with the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Kurt Masur, and the Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta. He toured the United States in 1993-94 with Toccatas & Flourishes, the nationally acclaimed organ and trumpet duo. From 1995-96, Mr. Inouye toured in Europe, Asia, Canada, and the United States with the Empire Brass Quintet. He was co-principal trumpet with the New World Symphony from 1996-98, and then was principal trumpet with the Charleston Symphony in 1998-99. Since then, he has been a member of the San Francisco Symphony. Mr. Inouye was a soloist in the San Francisco Symphony’s 2001 chamber music series premiering his own jazz composition, Find the Cheese in Davies Hall. It was the first jazz composition in the history of the chamber music series. He premiered another original composition, The Bull Behind the Horns, in 2004. He has also been a soloist with the New World Symphony on two occasions performing the Haydn Trumpet Concerto and the Tomasi Trumpet Concerto. He has appeared as a soloist in Wynton Marsalis’ video production, Marsalis On Music, which aired on BBC2 in Europe and on PBS in North America. He was a soloist with the Tanglewood Wind Ensemble led by Seiji Ozawa. He has also appeared as a soloist on the Disney Channel in a Celebration of the WHO at Carnegie Hall and has been heard as classical and jazz soloist on National Public Radio. He was a founding member of the Juilliard Jazz Sextet at Lincoln Center and was a guest performer at the Hollywood Bowl in the 1993 Playboy Jazz Festival in Los Angeles. |
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