Jeffrey Curnow, Associate Principal Trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra, began his career in music as an undergraduate at Temple University, where he was a student of Seymour Rosenfeld. He was previously Principal Trumpet of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Principal Trumpet of the New Haven Symphony, and a member of the internationally renowned Empire Brass Quintet, and the New York Trumpet Ensemble. With the Empire Brass Quintet, he recorded 15 CDs for the Angel EMI and Telarc labels, appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, St. Paul Sunday Morning, Taipei Television, Japan Television, and BBC Television and Radio, and performed as soloist with The Philadelphia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Saint Louis Symphony, National Symphony, and major orchestras in Japan and Switzerland. Mr. Curnow is well established as an educator, clinician, adjudicator, arranger and producer. He has taught at the Curtis Institute of Music, Temple University, Boston University, the Tanglewood Institute, the Royal Academy of Music in London, Wichita State University, University of Scranton, and University of Connecticut.