Jon Nelson
Assistant Professor of Music
Teacher of Trumpet Performance
Director, UB Band and Genkin Philharmonic

BM Julliard School of Music

216 Baird Hall
University at Buffalo
Buffalo NY, 14260

tel: (716) 645-2523
fax: (716) 645-3824
email: jrnelson@buffalo.edu

Performance Experience

Orchestral

Filarmonica de Mineria, Mexico City co-principal 1998
June in Buffalo Festival Orchestra, NY principal 1998
Orquesta Filarmonica de UNAM, Mexico City substitute principal 1997-98
Mexico City Philharmonic, substitute 1997-98
Metropolitan Opera, substitute 1995-96
Brooklyn Philharmonic, substitute 1996
Princeton University Composers Ensemble 1995-96
Philharmonia Virtuosi 1995-96
New York Grand Opera Orchestra 1995
New World Symphony 1992

Chamber Music

Meridian Arts Ensemble, international touring 1987-98
STX-Xenakis Ensemble 1994 - present
Atlantic Brass Quintet 1998-99
LaMonte Young Ensemble 1998
La Camerata de las Americas 1997-98
New York Chamber Ensemble 1994-96
Summergarden at MoMA 1992-94
Bang on a Can 1993
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 1992

Commercial/Jazz/Rock

Beauty and the Beast, Mexico City 1997-98
The King and I, NYC Broadway Production 1996-97
Camelot, NYC Broadway Production 1995-96
Crazy for You, NYC Broadway Production 1992
Duran Duran at Los Angeles' House of Blues 1993
Tom Pierson Orchestra 1993-95
Kirk Nurock Big Band 1992
Music from the film "The Debt" 1991

Festival Appearances

Festival de Creation Musicale - Radio France 1997
Festival Centro Historico de la Ciudad de Mexico 1997
Koln Musik Triennale, Germany 1994,1997
Keelung Modern Music Festival, Taiwan 1997
Festival Internacional de Costa Rica 1996
Festival de las Artes de Costa Rica 1996
Schleswig Holstein Musik Festival 1993
Resonans Festival, Netherlands 1993-96
Washington National Cathedral Festival 1993
Eggenberger Schlosskonzert Festival, Graz, Austria 1992
Festival of New American Music, Sacramento, CA 1991, 92
Rotterdam Elliott Carter Festival 1991
Dentsu Young Artists Series, Japan 1989

Solo Performances at UB

March 1999, Faculty Recital
Sonata for Trumpet and Piano - Paul Hindemith
Sequenza X - Luciano Berio
Solo Piece for Trumpet - Stephan Wolpe
RE:JON - Gustavo Matamoros
Echidna's Arf - Frank Zappa
with Helena Bugallo, piano; Jonathan Golove, cello

December 1999, UB Symphony
Trumpet Concerto - F.J. Haydn

February 2000, Faculty Recital
Sonatina - Hans Werner Henze
Trio No. 3 - Emil Harnas 2
Gran Calavera Electrica - Stephen Barber

Commissioned Works

Milton Babbitt
Fanfare for All --- 1993
Counterparts --- 1995

Stephen Barber
Gone is the River --- 1991
Semahane --- 1994

Daniel Grabois
New Work (solo trumpet) --- 1999
Migration --- 1996
Zen Monkey --- 1994

John Halle
Softshoe --- 1992

Gustavo Matamoros
RE: JON --- 1999

Kirk Nurock
Smart Went Crazy --- 1991

Tom Pierson
Brass Quintet --- 1991

Su Lian Tan
Moo Shu Wrap Rap --- 1995

David Sanford
Corpus --- 1996

Norman Yamada
Mundane Dissatisfactions --- 1991