Justin Emerich
A nationally renowned trumpeter and teacher with extensive national and international performing experience, Justin Emerich is associate professor of trumpet at the MSU College of Music. Emerich’s orchestral experience includes serving as acting associate principal trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony, as well as performing with the Cleveland Orchestra, Chicago Symphony, Detroit Symphony, St Louis Symphony, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, San Diego Symphony, San Francisco Opera, Malaysia Philharmonic, Seoul Symphony, Seattle Symphony, Atlanta Symphony, Seattle Opera, Grant Park Symphony, New Jersey Symphony, Buffalo Philharmonic, Grand Rapids Symphony, and the New World Symphony. He has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony and the Fulcrum Point New Music Ensemble in Chicago. In April 2013, Emerich was singled out as one of the San Francisco Symphony's "superb soloists" by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Emerich is also an avid chamber musician and has been a member of, and toured with, such groups as the Canadian Brass, Burning River Brass, Proteus 7, the Avatar Brass, and Pink Martini. Performing with these groups, he traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and all 50 states in the U.S. While with the world famous Canadian Brass, he performed as solo-piccolo trumpet and collaborated with the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra brass sections. Emerich and the Canadian Brass were also featured with the New Jersey Symphony and premiered a new work by Bramwell Tovey with the Vancouver Symphony. He is currently the piccolo trumpet of Burning River Brass. Emerich performed in numerous Broadway shows in New York City including Kiss Me Kate, Into the Woods, and 42nd Street.
Professor Emerich is a passionate and highly motivational educator and mentor.
His students have played with numerous orchestras, including the Detroit, Cincinnati, Alabama and Pittsburgh symphonies; performed with numerous Broadway companies and military bands; and are successful university professors, high school teachers, and music educators. Professor Emerich’s students have attend The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, and The Colburn School, to name just a few, and his students regularly receive graduate assistantship offers from universities around the country. Additionally, his former students have attended the National Repertory Orchestra, Aspen, Brevard, and countless other premier summer music festivals.Emerich regularly gives masterclasses at conservatories, universities, and high schools around the country and is in demand as a guest artist for trumpet and brass festivals.
After earning his degree, he became artist-in-residence and assistant trumpet professor at Grand Valley State University. Emerich has performed with such artists as Diana Ross, Burt Bacharach, Natalie Cole, Wayne Newton, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Doc Severinsen, Allen Vizzutti, Renee Fleming, Sufjan Stevens, Ben Folds, and Vanessa Williams. He has recorded for hundreds of TV, movie, and video game soundtracks, and can be heard as the lone trumpet on The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock. Emerich has recorded various CDs for the Columbia, SFS Media, Naxos, New World, Dorian, Burmermusic, LML music, and Albany record labels.
Emerich is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and the Lynn Conservatory of Music.
Emerich is also an avid chamber musician and has been a member of, and toured with, such groups as the Canadian Brass, Burning River Brass, Proteus 7, the Avatar Brass, and Pink Martini. Performing with these groups, he traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, the Caribbean, and all 50 states in the U.S. While with the world famous Canadian Brass, he performed as solo-piccolo trumpet and collaborated with the New York Philharmonic and Philadelphia Orchestra brass sections. Emerich and the Canadian Brass were also featured with the New Jersey Symphony and premiered a new work by Bramwell Tovey with the Vancouver Symphony. He is currently the piccolo trumpet of Burning River Brass. Emerich performed in numerous Broadway shows in New York City including Kiss Me Kate, Into the Woods, and 42nd Street.
Professor Emerich is a passionate and highly motivational educator and mentor.
His students have played with numerous orchestras, including the Detroit, Cincinnati, Alabama and Pittsburgh symphonies; performed with numerous Broadway companies and military bands; and are successful university professors, high school teachers, and music educators. Professor Emerich’s students have attend The Juilliard School, Eastman School of Music, and The Colburn School, to name just a few, and his students regularly receive graduate assistantship offers from universities around the country. Additionally, his former students have attended the National Repertory Orchestra, Aspen, Brevard, and countless other premier summer music festivals.Emerich regularly gives masterclasses at conservatories, universities, and high schools around the country and is in demand as a guest artist for trumpet and brass festivals.
After earning his degree, he became artist-in-residence and assistant trumpet professor at Grand Valley State University. Emerich has performed with such artists as Diana Ross, Burt Bacharach, Natalie Cole, Wayne Newton, Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Yo-Yo Ma, Gil Shaham, Doc Severinsen, Allen Vizzutti, Renee Fleming, Sufjan Stevens, Ben Folds, and Vanessa Williams. He has recorded for hundreds of TV, movie, and video game soundtracks, and can be heard as the lone trumpet on The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock. Emerich has recorded various CDs for the Columbia, SFS Media, Naxos, New World, Dorian, Burmermusic, LML music, and Albany record labels.
Emerich is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and the Lynn Conservatory of Music.