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Hugo Moreno is a multi-instrumentalist from Brooklyn, NY. Recently featured as a soloist with the Chelsea Symphony and Yale Philharmonia performing the Trumpet Concerti of Hummel and Tomasi, he has performed at Marlboro and Spoleto USA. A former member of the El Paso and Las Cruces Symphony Orchestras, Hugo enjoys a wide ranging free lance career in the New York area having recently played with such groups as the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players and the Long Island Philharmonic.
Further downtown, Hugo is the trumpet player for Cumbiagra, Jarana Beat, Rocola de Cantina, and is a member of the Gregorio Uribe Big Band. He recently returned from a residency at Dollywood with the Calpulli Danza Mexicana, where in addition to trumpet he performed on guitarra huasteca, percussion and voice. Hugo has also performed at the Bang on a Can marathon, with the acclaimed gospel musicians at the Emmanuel Baptist Church, and has worked extensively with conceptual artist Rachel Mason on trumpet, guitar, and drums in installations at the Park Avenue Armory and the Swiss Institute for Contemporary Art. During the summer of 2006 Hugo traveled to Daejeon, South Korea where he performed as Guest Principal trumpet of the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra under Shinik Hahm. He is a member of the New York Brass Octet, and the former tenor section leader for the Church of St. John and St. Mary in Chappaquah, NY.
Hugo is a graduate of New Mexico State University (BMusEd) and Yale (MMus). While at New Mexico State, Hugo was the brass instructor at Oñate High School under Barbara and Richard Lambrecht, performed regularly with Border Jazz Quintet, and recorded with the Latin-Jazz group Nosotros, a group with whom he remains a guest performer. While at Yale, he studied trumpet, cornetto and natural trumpet with Allan Dean. In his second year, he won the Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition and was awarded the John Swallow Prize. Hugo has been a student of Mark Gould and John McNeil.
In 2007 and 2008, he joined the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas tours of Mexico where he taught masterclasses and was featured in a documentary on Mexican station Televisa with the Orchesta Juvenil Nacional (National Youth Symphony Orchestra). Hugo teaches at the Yeom School of Music in Closter, NJ, and maintains a private studio. His band Cumbiagra was recently featured on National Public Radio's Morning Edition in an exposé on folkloric world music in New York. He is currently working on his first CD: Recital Music for Extremely Intelligent Trumpet Players of All Ages