Justin Emerich Joins Brass

Septermber 5, 2005 - Toronto

We are really pleased to announce that trumpeter Justin Emerich has joined Canadian Brass. He is already well known to the Brass, having been at the Music Academy of the West in 2000 during the group’s first year in residence there. Justin made a really strong impression on us then, performing brilliantly on all the trumpets, and doing so on several of our own showstoppers like the legendary Dedrick Penny Lane arrangement.

Having followed his career since our meeting, we could not have been happier when he accepted the invitation to take over the trumpet chair originally occupied by Fred Mills and most recently by Josef Burgstaller.   

Justin brings a wealth of performing experience to Canadian Brass. A native of California, Justin earned degrees from the Harid Conservatory / Lynn School of Music and the prestigious Juilliard School. He has performed extensively with orchestras such as the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and the Seattle Symphony and recently performed Wagner’s Ring Cycle with the Seattle Opera.

Justin has worked on Broadway, performed with Diana Ross at the 2000 US Open Women’s Finals and toured internationally with the European chart-topping Pink Martini.

For two summers he studied at the Music Academy of the West, Santa Barbara, where he studied with Canadian Brass and legendary orchestral trumpeter Adolf Herseth. Since 2001 Justin has also performed in America and the Far East with Burning River Brass. The globe-trotting trumpeter has now moved to Toronto.

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