Monterey Symphony

Owen Miyoshi
Trumpet II

Owen Miyoshi has been performing and teaching trumpet in the Bay Area for over ten years. Mr. Miyoshi strongly believes in Arnold Jacobs’ philosophy of song and wind, and incorporates this into both his teaching and personal approach to playing.

Owen graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree where he studied with David Burkart. He has held the second trumpet position ;with the Monterey Symphony since 2000 and has played third trumpet with the Santa Cruz Symphony since 1996. In addition, Owen is a founding member of the Farallon Brass Ensemble. Owen also keeps very busy as a substitute trumpet player for a number of orchestras throughout Northern California including Symphony Silicon Valley, Oakland East Bay Symphony, and Modesto Symphony.

In addition to having a large private teaching studio in Berkeley, he has been the instructor and brass choir director for the music department at the University of California, Santa Cruz since January 2002. He has also been brass coach and trumpet instructor for the Young Musicians Program at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2007, Owen joined the San Francisco Symphony’s Opus Outreach program serving San Francisco public schools. He is also a regular member of our In-School Demonstration program visiting schools in Monterey and San Benito Counties. In 2009, Owen was promoted to brass leader for the in school program.

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