#CHRIS WILSON LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL PROFESSIONAL#

#CHRIS WILSON LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL PROFESSIONAL#

Wilson’s students have gone on to professional performing careers, positions in military bands, prestigious graduate schools, and many successful music education careers. Additionally, Wilson actively teaches students who aspire to win military band positions through a course that he created, The Military Band Trumpet Summit. The A-State trumpet ensemble advanced to the quarter-final and semi-final rounds of the National Trumpet Competition in Denver, CO Dallas, TX and Lexington, KY. Other orchestral performances include appearances as guest principal trumpet with the Arkansas, Memphis, and Wheeling symphony orchestras.Īs an educator, Wilson was formerly Artist/Full Professor of Trumpet at Arkansas State University for 11 years where he built a nationally competitive trumpet studio. The album, entitled All Things Majestic, featured composer Jennifer Higdon’s music. Wilson has performed with many orchestras, including the Nashville Symphony Orchestra with which he performed on a Grammy award winning album for Best Classical Compendium in 2018. The album was featured on National Public Radio as its “delight of the week.” He has participated in numerous commissions and consortiums that include composers David Sampson, James Stephenson, Kevin McKee, Daniel Tacke, and Sy Brandon. Wilson released New Horizons in 2013, a solo album of new original recital pieces and commissions for trumpet. Wilson has been a soloist at two College Band Directors National Association events that included world premiere performances of Daniel Tacke’s Landschaft mit Kanonen and David Sampson’s Serenade for Trumpet and Wind Ensemble. He has performed and taught clinics throughout the United States, Italy, and Japan, including multiple featured performances at International Trumpet Guild Conferences. Wilson is an active soloist, performer, and clinician. Wilson’s performances have been called “eloquent” and “masterful” by The Journal of the Music Critics of North America. Additionally, Wilson is the Principal Trumpet of the Chamber Orchestra of Pittsburgh, a frequent performer with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and is on the trumpet faculty at Duquesne University. Christopher Wilson has served as the Principal Trumpet of the Pittsburgh Opera Orchestra since the 2017 season.

Chris wilson live at the continental