Major: Instrumental Performance
Instrument: Trumpet
Stamps Ensemble Name: Stamps Jazz Quintet Class of 2017
Profile:
Aidan Lombard, trumpet, majored in Instrumental Performance at the University of Miami Frost School of Music where he was a Stamps Distinguished Ensemble Scholar and a member of the Stamps Jazz Quintet, Class of 2017, coached by faculty mentor Charles Bergeron. He studied trumpet privately with Dante Luciani. Aidan has played in some of Chicago’s most prestigious Jazz venues including the Congress Theater and Joe and Wayne Segal’s legendary Jazz Showcase. He has been recognized on a national level as an outstanding musician and was chosen as one of only two trumpeters to participate in the Vail Jazz Workshop, where he studied with some of the most recognized professional jazz musicians in the world, including the legendary trumpeter Terell Stafford. He has played with several of the country’s best trumpeters and educators including Derrick Gardner, trumpeter in the Count Basie Jazz Orchestra, and Clay Jenkins, trumpeter in the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra and professor of Jazz trumpet at Eastman School of Music.
