Lisa Edelman - BIOGRAPHY

Biography

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American trumpeter and experimentalist Lisa Edelman received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Multi-Focus Trumpet Performance from the California Institute of The Arts in Valencia, California under the mentorship of trumpet soloist and pedagogue Edward Carroll. Lisa also completed her Bachelor of Music degree in Trumpet performance with High Distinction at the Eastman School of Music with James Thompson. Lisa has been a performer across North America and Europe appearing as a soloist, orchestral, and chamber musician. In 2001, she was a participant of both the trumpet seminar and orchestral program at the Aspen Music Festival, and was the sole representative of Eastman's first internet-based masterclass with James Thompson and Bryan Allen (RSAMD). In October 2002, she opened for Stanley Clarke with the funk band "A Day After Monday", for the "Stanley Clarke & Friends" Scholarship concert at the Musician's Institute in Hollywood. Her talents then took her abroad in the spring of 2003 to Glasgow, Scotland and London, England, performing HK Gruber's "Exposed Throat" to British audiences in venues such as the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, as well as the Queen Elizabeth Hall. In 2007, she travelled abroad for several years while working for Carnival Cruiselines, to places such as Hawaii, Alaska, Mexico, the Caribbean, Canada and the East Coast. She has performed with an array of artists: Grover Washington Jr., Gregg Fields, Dennis Rowland, Peter Nero, Bobby Watson, the Philadelphia Orchestra Brass Section, and the New Century Players, to name a few. Lisa has performed and premiered numerous original and existing experimental works for trumpet during the course of her career, including Morton Subotnick's "After the Butterfly", Luciano Berio's "Sequenza X", HK Gruber's "Exposed Throat", as well as a self-composed theatrical monologue titled "Pants". Lisa regularly performs with other artists emphasizing interdisciplinary work involving dance, film, theatre, as well as freely improvised scenarios that explore human artistic boundaries and in turn, further them. Lisa is well versed in any style that is required of her in any given musical setting, from experimentalism, to classical, funk and rock. Lisa currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where she continues her career as a freelance musician and artist.

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