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Alan Matteri

Sponsored by Cheryl Hammond

Alan Matteri is an Air Force trumpeter/freelancer from Benicia, CA. Alan is a 2013 graduate of California State University - East Bay in Hayward, CA, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music with Magna Cum Laude Honors. He then immediately began to teach private lessons regularly in the Bay Area and freelance with various orchestras, chamber ensembles, broadway musicals, and in a professional funk band. In 2016, he received his Master of Music degree in Trumpet Performance from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. His trumpet teachers include Ronald Blais (The USAF Band - Washington D.C.), Jeff Biancalana (SF Symphony), Adam Luftman (SF Opera & Ballet), Ray Riccomini (Metropolitan Opera), Thomas Booth (Dallas Symphony), and Ray Mase (Juilliard & American Brass Quintet). 

Since 2012, Alan has performed with the Modesto, Vallejo, & Merced Symphonies, Livermore Valley Opera, and was runner-up for the principal trumpet position of the Fresno Philharmonic. In 2015, he attended the Roundtop Music Festival in Texas, and the following year he earned a spot on the sub list for the New World Symphony while attending the prestigious Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. He has also served as an extra musician for the Philharmonia Orchestra of London and worked on recording projects for Sony Interactive Entertainment.

In 2016, he won an audition with the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West, graduated Basic Military Training in 2017 and immediately afterwards began performing with the ensemble’s Concert Band, Brass Quintet, and Ceremonial Band. As an Air Force musician, Alan has shared the stage with world renowned artists like Pentatonix, The Go-Gos, and Nile Rodgers & CHIC. In addition, he has made an appearance on the ESPN Monday Night Football halftime show for the San Francisco 49ers and had been featured as a soloist with the LA Philharmonic. Since joining the Air Force, Alan has continued freelancing throughout the Bay Area with ensembles like Berkeley Symphony, Stockton Symphony, and North State Symphony.