January 2025 Winner - Adrianna Dick
Adrianna Dick

This issue’s featured Young Artist Award winner is Adrianna Dick, an eighteen-year-old trumpeter and 2024 graduate of Bryan Station High School (BSHS) in Lexington, Kentucky. At BSHS, Adrianna was a principal trumpet in the symphonic band and lead trumpet in the jazz band. As a versatile brass musician, she also played horn and baritone in the concert band. Her leadership extended to serving as drum major for the marching band her senior year and performing as a featured soloist in their halftime show. Additionally, she played in the pit orchestra for the school’s productions of Once Upon a Mattress, The Music Man, and Guys and Dolls. Her entrepreneurial spirit shone through when she started a brass quintet during her junior year, for which she arranged music frequently. Although the group started playing concerts for local middle schools, they soon became an award-winning quintet, winning second prize in the Macauley Chamber Music Competition during Adrianna’s senior year.
Adrianna’s determined spirit resulted in musical achievements that extend well beyond her high school band program. In 2023, she was selected for the prestigious Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts for Instrumental Music. During her senior year, a competitive audition resulted in her performing as principal trumpet in the 2024 MFA Honors Band of America, a Yamaha-endowed chair. Adrianna referred to this opportunity as, “The best musical experience of her high school career.” She also participated in the University of Kentucky (UK) Honors Wind Ensemble, where she served as principal trumpet of the top band. Her involvement in the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra’s Jazz Repertory Orchestra and the Jazz Arts Orchestra, along with serving as lead trumpet in the KMEA All-State Jazz Band for two consecutive years, underscores her young talent.
In the fall of 2024, Adrianna began pursuing a music education degree at the University of Kentucky, studying with Jason Dovel and Abby Temple. As a future music educator, Adrianna hopes to provide the same kind of support that her band directors did for her, shaping lives for the better.
Her favorite trumpeters are Alison Balsom and Mary Elizabeth Bowden, and Adrianna also enjoys drawing, sewing, and most of the arts. As the January 2025 ITG Young Artist Award winner, she will receive a one-year complimentary ITG membership. Congratulations, Adrianna!