Bio : Artists

Jeffrey Kaye : Trumpet

Jeffrey Kaye is an internationally acclaimed orchestral and chamber musician, soloist and teacher. A founding board member of the Boca Symphonia, he has played principal trumpet with the Symphonia since 2005. He held the same position with the Florida Philharmonic (1989-2003), the Florida Grand Opera, the Florida Philharmonic Pops Orchestra, and the Miami Chamber Orchestra. Since 1999 Mr. Kaye has played with the IRIS Chamber Orchestra in Germantown, TN. He has performed as soloist with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, the Casals Festival in San Juan with the Puerto Rico Symphony, and throughout south Florida. For three seasons he has played with the Milwaukee Symphony as an extra. Mr. Kaye is currently artist in residence at the BAK School for the Arts in West Palm Beach where he teaches and coaches the trumpet and brass sections. He has taught at Louisiana State University, UNLV Las Vegas, and the New World School of the Arts in Miami, where he received the ?Teacher of the Year Award.? This summer Jeff will perform and teach at the Eastern Music Festival under the direction of Gerard Schwarz in Greensboro, NC. Summer performances have included the Santa Fe Opera, Aspen Music Festival, Waterloo Music Festival, Norfolk Music Festival/Yale Summer School of Music, and Tanglewood Music Festival where he played under Leonard Bernstein. He has also performed as soloist and taught at the Tainan Music Festival in Tainan, Taiwan and toured Europe with the North Carolina School of the Arts Chamber Orchestra. Mr. Kaye received his Bachelor of Arts in Performance and a Bachelor of Science in Music Management at the Hartt School of Music. He earned a master?s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. Mr. Kaye has recorded on the award winning Florida Philharmonic CD of Gustav Mahler?s First Symphony and the EMI, Telarc, Epic, and Harnonia Mundi labels, performing with The Empire Brass, The Florida Philharmonic, Placido Domingo, and the Broadway show Scarlett Pimpenel.