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Hugo Moreno is one of the most versatile and accomplished, not to mention interesting musicians in New York City. As a classical chamber musician, Hugo is a founding member of Ransom Wilson's Le Train Bleu, is an ongoing participant at the Marlboro Music Festival, and a member of the Chamber Orchestra of New York. As a commercial trumpet player, Hugo has played on Broadway, and was selected to perform as solo trumpet in Chen Shi-zheng Damon Alban, Jamie Hewlett’s Monkey: A Journey to the West. As an orchestral musician, Hugo is a former member of the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, the El Paso and Las Cruces Symphonies. As a Latin/Jazz musician, Hugo performs with Jarana Beat, the Gregorio Uribe Big Band, the Calpulli Danza Mexicana, and The Shrine Big Band.
Hugo has performed alongside Carlos Santana, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, John Legend, and Paquito D’Rivera. In 2006 he traveled to Daejeon, South Korea to perform as guest principal trumpet of the Daejeon Philharmonic. As a classical Soloist, Hugo has been featured with the Marquette University Wind Ensemble (performing When Speaks the Signal Trumpet Tone by David Gillingham), the Yale Philharmonia (perf. Concerto for Trumpet by Henri Tomasi), the Chelsea Symphony (performing the Trumpet concerto of Johann Nepomuk Hummel), and the West Village Players (performing selections from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio), led by Ken Cooper.
Born to Mexican immigrant parents in Texas, and raised in Sunland Park, NM, Hugo was exposed to music at an early age, listening to his father sing in the traditional Trio and Conjunto styles indigenous to the borderland area. At age 11 he learned the trumpet, and was featured playing the Haydn Trumpet Concerto at his own high school graduation six years later. Hugo went on to New Mexico State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree, and studied trumpet with Ken Van Winkle, Michael Walk and Pancho Romero. Following that, Hugo attended the Yale University School of Music, where he studied cornetto, modern and baroque trumpet with Allan Dean, won the annual Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition, and was the recipient of the John Swallow Prize for excellence in Brass Performance.
As an educator, Hugo has given masterclasses at the Berklee College of Music (with the Berklee Mariachi Ensemble, and in Concert with Jarana Beat) and at Marquette University (where he taught a masterclass on brass performance and lectured in a music appreciation seminar), and was a graduate teaching fellow at Yale University. Hugo maintains a private teaching studio and has also taught at the Yeom School of Music, and at the Third Street Music Settlement. In 2002 Hugo was the assistant band director at Oñate High School, where he tutored a record 5 All-State trumpet players and helped coach the band to two state concert band championships.
Hugo’s trumpet playing can be heard on Sony Classical with the Alondra De La Parra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, on Naxos with Salvatore DiVittorio and the Chamber Orchestra of New York, on Canteloupe Records with Le Train Bleu (ant. 2012), independent recordings with Jarana Beat, Cumbiagra, the Gregorio Uribe Big Band, and with the Brooklyn Jazz Warriors featuring Brian Stoltz of the Funky Meters. He is an avid student of Afro-Cuban percussion, and also frequently performs as a singer (tenor voice), guitarist, jaranero, and bassist.
Hugo has performed alongside Carlos Santana, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, John Legend, and Paquito D’Rivera. In 2006 he traveled to Daejeon, South Korea to perform as guest principal trumpet of the Daejeon Philharmonic. As a classical Soloist, Hugo has been featured with the Marquette University Wind Ensemble (performing When Speaks the Signal Trumpet Tone by David Gillingham), the Yale Philharmonia (perf. Concerto for Trumpet by Henri Tomasi), the Chelsea Symphony (performing the Trumpet concerto of Johann Nepomuk Hummel), and the West Village Players (performing selections from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio), led by Ken Cooper.
Born to Mexican immigrant parents in Texas, and raised in Sunland Park, NM, Hugo was exposed to music at an early age, listening to his father sing in the traditional Trio and Conjunto styles indigenous to the borderland area. At age 11 he learned the trumpet, and was featured playing the Haydn Trumpet Concerto at his own high school graduation six years later. Hugo went on to New Mexico State University where he graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree, and studied trumpet with Ken Van Winkle, Michael Walk and Pancho Romero. Following that, Hugo attended the Yale University School of Music, where he studied cornetto, modern and baroque trumpet with Allan Dean, won the annual Woolsey Hall Concerto Competition, and was the recipient of the John Swallow Prize for excellence in Brass Performance.
As an educator, Hugo has given masterclasses at the Berklee College of Music (with the Berklee Mariachi Ensemble, and in Concert with Jarana Beat) and at Marquette University (where he taught a masterclass on brass performance and lectured in a music appreciation seminar), and was a graduate teaching fellow at Yale University. Hugo maintains a private teaching studio and has also taught at the Yeom School of Music, and at the Third Street Music Settlement. In 2002 Hugo was the assistant band director at Oñate High School, where he tutored a record 5 All-State trumpet players and helped coach the band to two state concert band championships.
Hugo’s trumpet playing can be heard on Sony Classical with the Alondra De La Parra and the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas, on Naxos with Salvatore DiVittorio and the Chamber Orchestra of New York, on Canteloupe Records with Le Train Bleu (ant. 2012), independent recordings with Jarana Beat, Cumbiagra, the Gregorio Uribe Big Band, and with the Brooklyn Jazz Warriors featuring Brian Stoltz of the Funky Meters. He is an avid student of Afro-Cuban percussion, and also frequently performs as a singer (tenor voice), guitarist, jaranero, and bassist.
