“...a tireless and visionary trumpeter.”

-Edward Carroll

Philippe Brunet, D.M.A. has been an active performer and educator all across North America and Europe appearing as an orchestral musician, chamber musician, and soloist. He has performed with the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, The Florida Orchestra, The Naples Philharmonic, the Southwest Florida Orchestra, and for four seasons as a member of the Miami City Ballet Orchestra. He has also been heard at prestigious festivals such as the Cabrillo Festival for Contemporary Music, the Aspen Music Festival, the Dartington International Music Festival, the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale, and the Atlantic Music Festival. Philippe is also a member of the Parkway Brass, an innovative brass quintet that performs in the mid Atlantic region. As an advocate for New Music and soloist, he has collaborated with several composers on over a dozen new works including a commissioned trumpet concerto for chamber ensemble and soloist, Fanfares for The Apocalypse by Rome Prize winning composer, Ken Ueno.

Philippe completed his Doctorate of Musical Arts in trumpet performance at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music. Prior to this, he earned a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of The Arts, and a BMus from the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Canada. His primary teachers were Craig Morris, Edward Carroll, and Thomas Stevens.

Philippe currently resides in Washington, DC where he maintains a busy performance and teaching schedule. Dr. Brunet is on Faculty at Levine Music and NOVA Community College where he maintains a private teaching studio and coaches chamber music.