Born and raised in the Bay Area, California, I am currently an alumni of the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. I am 22, outgoing, friendly, laidback but mostly.available for gigsHolla at me and don't be a stranger.
Playing trumpet since the age of nine, Berkeley, CA native Billy Buss has received numerous awards, including Berklee College of Music's full-tuition Jimmy Lyons Scholarship, two Outstanding Performance/Soloist awards from the DownBeat Student Music Awards, as well as the Gold Award in Jazz from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, and recognition from the White House as a 2006 Presidential Scholar in the Arts. He has been fortunate to perform at the Monterey, Umbria, Montreal, Montreux, and JVC Jazz Festivals; the Dubrovnik Summer Music Festival in Croatia; numerous festivals in Japan; and a variety of clubs in New York. This past May, Billy graduated from Berklee, where he has played in a variety of ensembles, including the Berklee Rainbow Band under the direction of Phil Wilson, the Joe Lovano Octet, and the Dave Santoro Berklee Scholarship Jazz Ensemble, Terri Lyne Carrington Ensemble, and Greg Hopkins' Berklee Concert Jazz Orchestra as well as ensembles led by Hal Crook and Dave Samuels. At the end of August, Billy will join the eighth class of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance, in New Orleans, along with four other Berklee alumni.
