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Garrett Faccone is a New York City based trumpet player, composer, and educator who enjoys a diverse career as both a soloist and sideman. Equally at home in the jazz and classical idioms, Garrett maintains a very active performance schedule.

As an in-demand trumpet player, Garrett can currently be found subbing on several Broadway shows, credits include: Chicago, Aladdin, The Book of Mormon, Tootsie, and Moulin Rouge. As a studio musician, he has recorded for major advertising campaigns with Progressive Insurance and the Netflix original production of House of Cards. Most recently, Garrett was featured on lead trumpet with Darren Criss’s (Glee television series) A Very Darren Crissmas LIVE from The Beacon Theatre in NYC.

Raised in a musical household down at the Jersey Shore, Garrett was surrounded by a vibrant musical community from an early age. These early experiences were crucial to set him on the path to success as a musician and performer. He went on to earn a Bachelor's of Science degree in Music Education from Slippery Rock University and a Master's of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from Towson University. During those formative years, Garrett was fortunate to tour, perform, and record with national acts such as: In The Mood Live!, Blast! The Show, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, Little Anthony and the Imperials, The Happenings, Streetlight Manifesto, Belle & Sebastian, Al Chez & the Brothers of Funk, the American Music Theatre Orchestra, and the Garden State Jazz Orchestra.

In addition to an active performance career, Garrett gives back to the music community through education. He has taught award winning programs such as the Santa Clara Vanguard Drum and Bugle Corps and is currently on faculty with Piscataway Township Schools.

Garrett currently resides in Bridgewater, New Jersey with his awesome wife Laura, beautiful daughter Lily, and their rescue dog Zoey.

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Gabriel Gilch is a trumpeter who has received a bachelor’s degree in Jazz Performance from New Jersey City University where he won the Clark Terry Award. Working as a freelance musician in the greater New York Area, he has performed with such great artists as Wallace Rooney, Jose Claussell, Catherine Russell, Jimmy Greene, Tammy McCann, Bob Malach and many others, in venues including Blue Note Jazz Club, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center and The Kennedy Center. Gabe has been very lucky to learn from some of the most giving masters of music including Joe Mosello, Nathan Eklund, Richie Vitale, Bruce Williams, Valerie Ponomarev, Walt Weiskopf and many more. In his spare time Gabe enjoys playing golf, tennis, basketball and turning the television off early when the Knicks or Yankees are about to lose.

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Sean Hack holds an undergraduate degree in trumpet performance from Illinois State University. Currently he plays soprano cornet with the Princeton Brass Band, assistant principal trumpet with the Eastern Wind Symphony, he is a member of the Central Jersey Brass Quintet and the Princeton Brass Quintet, frequently plays for musicals across the state of NJ, and is happy to call himself a member of the Garden State Jazz Orchestra trumpet section. He maintains a small private studio of dedicated and successful students studying trumpet and composition. Sean also studied composition heavily during his time at ISU. He had the fortunate pleasure to studying directly with prestigious composers such as Steven Stucky, David Maslanka, Roy Magnuson, Ingrid Stölzel, Stephen Hartke, and many others. Sean also works as a composer/arranger and amateur inventor of microtonal brass instruments.

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Joe Mosello is one of the most respected trumpet players around today. He is a graduate of the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, where he studied with Chuck Mangione, who was head of the jazz department at that time. He went on to play many concerts with Mangione, and can be heard on his “Tarantella” recording. After Eastman, Joe toured and recorded as lead trumpet with the Jazz Ambassadors of the U.S. Army Field Band in Washington, D.C. When he left the Army band, he was invited to join the Maynard Ferguson Orchestra, and toured with them for the next five years. Joe may be heard on four of Maynard’s recordings, “Conquistador”, “New Vintage”, “Carnival”, and “Hot”. He then settled in New York City, and has been a fixture in the music scene there ever since. Joe is a veteran of dozens of Broadway shows, and a proud member of the Tony Awards Orchestra for 11 years. He played lead trumpet with virtually every big band in New York City, from Toshiko Akiyoshi and Louie Bellson to Bob Mintzer, 25 years with the Thad Jones-Mel Lewis Orchestra, and the Philip Morris SuperBand. Joe has performed with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, B.B. King, Julie Andrews, Sammy Davis Jr., Johnny Mathis, Jerry Lewis, The Temptations, The Four Tops, and Blood, Sweat, and Tears, among others, and has one gold and one platinum record respectively, for Maynard Ferguson’s recording of “Gonna Fly Now” from the movie Rocky, and for “Solid” by Ashford and Simpson. Joe was lead trumpet and music coordinator for Aretha Franklin when she performed in the New York City area. Joe lives in the Princeton, NJ, area, and is a professor in the jazz department at Rutgers University. He also teaches trumpet students, and is a consultant with the jazz ensembles at J.P. Stevens HS. Joe works with his trumpet students from his new trumpet drills called ProChops that took over 15 years to develop, and that he hopes to publish soon.

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Gerald Romano has been the director of bands at Monmouth Regional High School for the last 21 years, and has been an educator in the New Jersey Public School system for a total of 31 years. He has performed professionally as a trumpet player in the group Total Soul, as well as the 1960s hit-making group "The Happenings." Gerald also played trumpet on Broadway for the 1987 production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Starlight Express, as well as the 1994 revival of Guys and Dolls. Mr. Romano obtained a degree from the prestigious University of Miami music department. He is a well renowned Jazz educator, who has led the Monmouth Regional Jazz Ensemble to many awards for various competitions, as well as sitting on the Jazz Faculty for the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. He is the recipient of the 2016 Monmouth County Arts Educator Award.