Jeffrey Curnow, Professor of Trumpet at Indian University’s Jacobs School of Music, was the associate principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 2001 to 2025. He began his career in music as an undergraduate at Temple University, where he was a student of Seymour Rosenfeld, and quickly won a coveted position as Concerto Soloist at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. In 1983, Jeffrey was appointed principal trumpet of the New Haven Symphony and soon after became a member of the New York Trumpet Ensemble, recording on the MMG/Vox and Newport Classics labels. Four years later, he joined the internationally renowned Empire Brass Quintet. Over the course of his tenure with this ensemble, he recorded 15 compact discs for the Angel EMI and Telare labels, performed with ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Saint Louis Symphony, the National Symphony, and major orchestras in Japan and Switzerland, as well as appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, St. Paul Sunday Morning, Taipei Television, Japan Television, and BBC Television and radio.
In 1995, Jeffrey was appointed principal trumpet of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, where on several occasions he performed as soloist, including a performance of Lowell Liebermann’s Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra. Not content to limit himself to performing, Jeffrey is well established as an educator, clinician, adjudicator, arranger, and producer. He has taught at Wichita State University, the University of Connecticut, the University of Scranton, Boston University, the Tanglewood Institute, the Royal Academy of Music in London, Temple University, and the Curtis Institute.