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David Burkhart
Trumpet
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David Burkhart is an honors graduate of Yale University, where he received B.A. and M.M. degrees. His teachers include Adolph Herseth, Arnold Jacobs, Robert Nagel, William Vacchiano and Charles Geyer. Burkhart has served as principal trumpet of the Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose and Jerusalem symphonies, the Santa Fe Opera, and as acting principal of the San Diego Symphony. His five seasons as acting member of the San Francisco Opera include many performances as principal trumpet, most recently in Saint-Saëns’ Samson and Delilah, plus the recordings Symphony at the Opera and DVDs of Boito’s Mefistofele and Puccini’s Turandot. He has taught at Stanford University, San Jose State University and at the Menlo Summer Brass Institute. A member of the Bay Brass and the San Francisco Brass Quintet, Burkhart also performs regularly with the San Francisco Symphony, including Keeping Score-Mahler and over a dozen CDs. He can also be heard on The Star Wars Trilogy with John Williams, A Brass & Organ Christmas at Grace Cathedral and the Bay Brass album Sound the Bells!.
Burkhart may be contacted by email at trumpetprof@aol.com.
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