Tom Bergeron
Tom Bergeron has performed across North America, Europe, and Asia with orchestras, chamber groups, jazz groups, show bands, as a soloist, and can be heard on the Naxos and Koch record labels. Tom plays principal trumpet with the Berkshire Symphony and plays frequently with the Vermont Symphony. He has also appeared as a soloist with the Hartford Symphony, has recorded with the Albany Symphony and Schola Cantorum, and has performed with Arlo Guthrie, The Smothers Brothers, The Triton Brass Quintet, Albany's Dogs of Desire, the I/O Ensemble, Orchestra New England, the New Hampshire Symphony, The New Haven Symphony, and Emmanuel Music in Boston. He is a composer, arranger, and manager for Pearl City, a contemporary jazz group, and plays with salsa bands Mikata, Sonido Unidad, and Agua Por Chocolate. Tom also plays lead and solo trumpet for Carnival Cruise Lines and Norwegian Cruise Lines seasonally, and has served as a Band Master for NCL. Mr. Bergeron is a sought after teacher and clinician across the Northeast, currently serving as Studio Teacher of Trumpet and Director of Brass Chamber Music at Williams College and Bennington College. He holds a B.A. in Business Management from The Isenberg School at UMass and an M.M. and A.D. in Trumpet Performance from Yale, where he studied with recording artist Allan Dean. While at Yale, Tom served as Assistant Director of the Yale Jazz Ensemble and as a T.A. for Allan Dean, teaching Yale College trumpet students. Tom has also served as Director of Winds at the Hartsbrook School, and trumpet teacher and brass clinician at Amherst College and Deerfield Academy.