Chris Scanlon to University of Florida

Christopher Scanlon has been appointed Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of Florida in Gainesville, starting Fall 2024.

Prior to this position at UF he taught trumpet, chamber music and served as coordinator of the brass area at Northern Illinois University for four years. His students have been invited competitors at the National Trumpet Competition, International Trumpet Guild Chamber Music Division, National Brass Quintet Competition and gone on to win positions with regional orchestras, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, nationally competitive graduate assistantships and teaching positions in college and secondary education.

An active chamber musician, Scanlon records, performs and commissions new works as a member of Axiom Brass, the Palisade Trumpet Collective and Silver Spruce Trio. He has performed across the globe from Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and the Radio City Music Hall, to Mexico’s Palacio de Bellas Artes, the Dubai Opera House and the Vienna Musikverein, on Broadway for Phantom of the Opera, Kiss me Kate, West Side Story and An American in Paris, with orchestras such as the Boston Symphony and Milwaukee Symphony and as a fellow at Verbier, Spoleto and Tanglewood where he received the Roger Voisin Award. Dr. Scanlon can be heard on Deutsche Grammophone, Naxos, Mark records and Mode records, and the international classical music streaming platform, medici.tv. As a soloist and clinician, Scanlon has performed and presented at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, International Women’s Brass Conference, Indiana Music Educators Conference and the International Trumpet Guild Conference, where he serves as Chair of the Chamber Music Division of the Ryan Anthony Memorial Trumpet Competition. Dr. Scanlon is a Bach performing artist. Dr. Scanlon holds degrees from Boston University, Rice University, the Manhattan School of Music and Stonybrook University where he studied with Joseph Foley, Terry Everson, Thomas Rolfs, Marie Speziale, Mark Gould and Kevin Cobb. (Source: Chris Scanlon)