thaniel Meyer is an award winning American trumpeter and conductor who has performed in the concert halls of Europe, South America, Asia, and Carnegie Hall in New York. Born in Boston, he made his solo debut at age 14, performing Shostakovich’s Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Trumpet, described as “outstanding...playing with spirit, accuracy, feeling, and beautiful tone...He never forced his sound” (The Boston Globe). Meyer went on to win local competitions, performing as a soloist with orchestras in the Boston area and later winning First Prize at the National Trumpet Competition and International Trumpet Guild, and receiving awards from Yale University (the Wrexham Prize in Music) and Indiana University’s Artistic Excellence Award. As a student at Yale, he performed as first trumpet and soloist with the Yale Symphony Orchestra, with whom he recorded an album of the complete works by Hindemith for Piano and Orchestra with the legendary Turkish pianist, Idil Biret. The recording was released by Naxos Records, described as “a fascinating two-disc album” by the New York Times’ Anthony Tommasini, and “excellent performances” by Fanfare Magazine.

As the Music Director of the Du Bois Orchestra, Meyer has championed the music of African-American composers, including Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, whose recently rediscovered scores had been lost for decades. He has also conducted professional orchestras in Europe, including the Brandenburger Symphoniker and the Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach in Germany, the Camerata Antonio Soler in Spain, and the Philharmonic Orchestra “Mihail Jora” in Romania. In the United States, he has conducted the Portsmouth Symphony Youth Orchestra, the Indiana Youth Musicians, the Indiana University Orchestra, the Yale Symphony Orchestra, the Arapahoe Philharmonic, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the MIT Symphony Orchestra, and Symphony Pro Musica.