Frank Gabriel Campos is professor emeritus of Ithaca College’s Whalen Center for Music and a renowned classical and jazz trumpet soloist, teacher, and author. His book Trumpet Technique (Oxford University Press, 2005) is used at colleges and universities worldwide, and his Clinic column in the International Trumpet Guild Journal has been a pedagogical voice to thousands of trumpeters since 1995. His award winning recordings include Joyspring, Kitchen Music, and An Unquiet Prayer, which was named a Global Music Awards Top Ten Album of 2018. He has been a Yamaha Performing Artist since 1987.
Campos has appeared as soloist with the Winnipeg Symphony, the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Eastman Wind Ensemble, and on the stages of Washington D.C.’s Constitution Hall, New York’s Town Hall, the Lincoln Center, and the Kennedy Center. He has performed or toured with artists such as Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, and Ella Fitzgerald, and he has been a soloist at the Montreux International Jazz Festival and the Ottawa International Jazz Festival. He has been a featured artist on American Public Media’s Performance Today more than a dozen times.
As principal trumpet, Mr. Campos has performed with the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Texas Baroque Ensemble, Glimmerglass Festival Orchestra, Binghamton Philharmonic, Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, Tri-Cities Opera, Syracuse Opera, Orchestra of the Southern Finger Lakes, Fresno Philharmonic, Bear Valley Festival Orchestra, Northeastern Philharmonic, Skaneateles Summer Music Festival, and Pulitzer Prize winner Steven Stuckey’s Ensemble X. He has also performed with the Rochester Philharmonic, Syracuse Symphony, Fort Worth Symphony, Monterey County Symphony, Skaneateles Summer Music Festival, and the Central New York Jazz Orchestra.
On period instruments, Mr. Campos has performed with New York State Baroque and with Sonare Early Music Consort at the Sterling Renaissance Festival. He has premiered numerous new works, including many written especially for him by Yotam Haber, Sally Lamb, Andrew Waggoner, James Willey, Dana Wilson, and others. He is a founder of the Dallas Brass and a twenty-five year member of the Ithaca Brass. In 2018, he was honored with the International Trumpet Guild Award of Merit “for exceptional lifetime achievement in trumpet performance, teaching, and publication.” “Whether through his delightful stage presence or his incredible virtuosity, Frank Gabriel Campos provided an experience that those in attendance will not soon forget.” John Cord, International Trumpet Guild Journal. “A terrific trumpeter and one of the great trumpet teachers in the country, Frank Gabriel Campos essentially sings through his trumpet.” Fred Child, host of American Public Media’s Performance Today.