Brian Chahley - Jazz Trumpet

Brian Chahley (20) is a young, eager jazz trumpeter from Toronto. A graduate of the Brubeck Institute Fellowship Program at the University of the Pacific, he is currently finishing his degree at New School University in New York City.

Brian took up the trumpet at age 12, and since then has studied with veterans such as Freddie Hubbard, Nicholas Payton, Warren Gale, Terell Stafford, and Brian Lynch. Brian's father Chris and his mother Lisa were both on the Toronto jazz scene in the 1980's, and got Brian interested in jazz. Brian's accomplishments include being the first Canadian ever selected to play in the Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY High School Jazz Ensembles in Los Angeles AND being the only person in the history of the band to sit in the “jazz chair” twice in a row, playing in various Canadian Jazz Festivals, playing in the North Sea Jazz Festival in Amsterdam, performing at the US Consulate in Barcelona, Spain, playing with Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band, soloing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and attending the Dave Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony in Stockton, California.

Brian has played and worked with such jazz notables as Dave Brubeck, Christian McBride, Robert Hurst, Freddie Hubbard, Lewis Nash, Greg Tardy, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Miguel Zenon, Benny Maupin, Vince Herring, Brian Lynch, Donald Brown, Benny Golson, Nicholas Payton, Jerry Bergonzi, Clark Terry, Kurt Elling, Gerald Wilson, and Roy Hargrove. Brian plays a Bach Stradivarius Model 72 trumpet and a Monette B2 mouthpiece.