Trumpeter John-Thomas Burson discusses the musician's role in an audience's emotional experience. Offering thoughts on the "reactive" nature of music and poetry, he performs his own work in response to Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening."



Trumpet performer and educator John-Thomas Burson has pursued his passion for music across a diversity of arenas. With a special fascination for new music, he performs with Anima Brass, a Long Island chamber ensemble which actively commissions and presents modern works for the brass quintet. Burson devotes equal attention to solo performance, appearing recently as featured soloist with the Georgia Symphony Orchestra and Kennesaw State University Symphony Orchestra. In solo recitals, John-Thomas often programs rarely performed or new works for trumpet, including a premiere in April by Stony Brook University’s Nathan Hudson.
For the past two years, he was selected to attend the internationally-acclaimed Aspen Music Festival, where he performed alongside preeminent conductors, soloists, and ensembles including Midori, Gil Shaham, Robert Spano, Vasily Petrenko, and the American Brass Quintet, to name a few. He was the 2014 winner of the International Trumpet Guild’s Sonare Pro Brass Schol

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