Trumpet

Dr. Chris Carrillo is a Conn-Selmer trumpet artist and has performed throughout the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany on modern and historic instruments. He currently performs as Principal Trumpet with the New Orchestra of Washington, D.C. and has performed with numerous ensembles including the Dallas Wind Symphony on their Grammy nominated recording, Garden of Dreams, the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, and as a guest performer with the "President’s Own” United States Marine Band Brass Quintet. As an orchestral musician, Dr. Carrillo spent five seasons as a member of the Corpus Christi and Victoria Symphony Orchestras, and he has performed as a substitute and extra with the symphony orchestras of Austin, Abilene, Charlottesville, and Jacksonville as well as the opera companies of Austin, Lynchburg, and Memphis. As a featured soloist and chamber collaborator he has performed concerts and recitals at Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and City Recital Hall in Sydney, Australia.

As a commercial musician, Carrillo has recorded for numerous national advertising campaigns and performed as a local musician for several national Broadway touring productions. He has collaborated with such varied artists as Bob Brookmeyer, Marvin Hamlisch, the Harry James Orchestra, Chuck Mangione, the Fifth Dimension, the Temptations, and John Pizzarelli to name a few. He joined the faculty of the School of Music at James Madison University in 2009 where he coaches chamber music, teaches studio trumpet, and performs with the Madison Brass-the faculty brass quintet in residence at JMU. Carrillo earned his doctorate in music at The University of Texas at Austin and did additional studies in orchestral performance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow. His trumpet teachers have included Ray Sasaki of the Saint Louis Brass Quintet and Ray Crisara formerly of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini.

Email: carrilcj@jmu.edu
Office: 540.568.6972

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