Trumpet
Joe Burgstaller tours regularly as a soloist, with the crossover group BM4 (BurgstallerMartignon4), and as a clinician and teacher, and has performed and taught in hundreds of cities throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia. He is also a distinguished faculty member at the Peabody Institute in Baltimore, where he teaches trumpet, chamber music, and a special performance class series for all instruments.
Mr. Burgstaller has the distinction of being a former full-time member of two premier brass groups: Canadian Brass and the avant-garde Meridian Arts Ensemble. With Canadian Brass, he was often featured as a soloist, and the group performed and recorded his arrangements (AllMusicGuide.com lauded his "superb" arrangements for the music of Astor Piazzolla). As a member of the Meridian Arts Ensemble, Mr. Burgstaller received an ASCAP Adventurous Programming Award, and recorded his own compositions and arrangements. Gramophone heralded his original work Lullaby "an understated gem."
One of the most popular soloists at Columbia Artists' Community Concerts, Mr. Burgstaller performed nearly 60 solo concerts each season with his Joe Burgstaller: The Rafael Méndez Project. The Instrumentalist dubbed him "the next Méndez." He is the inaugural recipient of Distinguished Alumnus awards from both Arizona State University and the Eastern Music Festival.
Mr. Burgstaller, who is in his second decade as a Yamaha Performing Artist, has an extensive discography. Three Canadian Brass CDs featuring his playing charted among Billboard's top 10, and his latest CD with BM4, Mozart's Blue Dreams & Other Crossover Fantasies, debuted on the Top 50 Jazz Radio Chart. Their next release, Bach's Secret Drawer & More Crossover Fantasies, is due out this fall.
He has been a Music Academy faculty member since 2001.