DESCRIPTION:
San Francisco Bay Area based free lance trumpet player Chris Barnes talks about playing and preparing for Broadway musicals, practicing, range, teaching, playing lead, pit etiquette, and playing with the Blue Devils A corps as a youngster.

Chris Barnes is a full-time professional trumpet player living in the San Francisco Bay Area and is in high demand as an extremely versatile freelance musician. Chris’s flexibility allows him to cross over a variety of different styles, so on any given day he is performing in the pit of a broadway show, leading the brass section of a symphony orchestra, playing lead in a jazz band or doing dance steps with a rock band.

A small list of who he has played with: Johnny Mathis, Seth Macfarlane, Huey Lewis and The News, Kevin Spacey, Tim McGraw, Kenny Loggins, Diana Krall, Carlos Santana, George Clinton, Idina Menzel, Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Preston, Michael Feinstein, Temptations, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Newman, Bobby Caldwell, Frank D’ Ambrosio, Smash Mouth, San Francisco Symphony, Oakland Symphony, California Symphony, Beach Blanket Babylon, National touring shows of Beautiful, Wicked, Book of Mormon, Kinky Boots, Cats, South Pacific, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, Anything Goes, Drowsy Chaperone; Jazz Festivals in Montreaux, Umbria, Monterey, San Francisco, Fillmore, Concord, Santa Cruz, San Jose; music for Tokyo Disney, commercial for Rubio’s Bar and Grill, facebook game Ravenshire’s Castle, and the video games for Sega Dreamcast of NFL2K1 and The Floigan Brothers.
For more information about Chris please visit his website at www.chrisbarnestrumpet.com

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