Josh Shpak | 2012 YoungARTS Jazz Trumpet Award Winner | "Straight No Chaser", "Easy Living", "Solar"

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This is the audition video that caused Josh Shpak to be the selected as the 2012 NFAA YoungARTS Jazz Trumpet Winner. The video was produced & recorded by Michael Miller, and mixed by Gary Platt. Performing with Josh are Chase Morrin (piano), Tyler Eaton (bass) and Fernando Gomez (drums). Click below for shortcuts to the start times for each selection....

Straight, No Chaser | 00:21
Easy Living | 3:48
Solar | 8:55

Josh is endorsed by CarolBrass - the manufacturer of his flugelhorn, the CarolBrass model number: CFL-6200-GSS (SLB). The USA distributor for CarolBrass is Doug Teeter at (559) 436-5247, and the flugelhorn specs can be seen here: http://carolbrass.com/product_post.ph...

BIO:

Jazz trumpeter, Josh Shpak -- between making regular trips to the home of jazz legend, Clark Terry, for private jazz lessons, being chosen as the only jazz trumpet player in the USA to win the 2012 NFAA YoungArts Award, performing with the 2011 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra at the Monterey Jazz Festival, winning Downbeat Awards, and sitting in with Arturo Sandoval and TOWER OF POWER -- has packed quite a lot into his first 18 years on earth. In fact, during his senior year alone at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek, California, he auditioned for and made it into every one of the most elite honor jazz groups in the world: the 2010 Berklee Summer Jazz Workshop, the 2010 Vail Jazz Workshop, the 2010 Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony, the 2011 Grammy Jazz Ensemble, the 2011 Jazz Band of America, and the 2011 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra.

Upon graduation from high school in 2011, Josh received full-tuition, four-year scholarship offers from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, the Manhattan School of Music, and the Frost Music School at the University of Miami. He chose Berklee, where he is currently attending, while continuing to study privately with Clark Terry, Bobby Shew, Laurie Frink, Tiger Okoshi, Ingrid Jensen, Christian Scott and Mic Gillette, as well as being produced and receiving guidance from his life-long mentor, Michael Miller.