The CSU Trumpet Studio will host a clinic given by Mark Inouye, principal trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Admission is free and open to the public. Serious high school trumpeters and area band directors are encouraged to attend.

Enjoy an introductory film made by the SFSO about the amazingly versatile and talented Mr. Inouye.

Mark J Inouye is one of a very select group of trumpeters equally at home in the worlds of jazz and classical music. Currently he is the Principal Trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony. After attending the University of California at Davis for two years as a civil engineering major, he transferred to the Juilliard School. He toured the United States with Toccatas and Flourishes, the nationally acclaimed organ and trumpet duo. He was a member of the New World Symphony and Principal Trumpet with the Charleston Symphony before joining the San Francisco Symphony in 1999. He also served as Principal Trumpet with the Houston Symphony from 2004-2006 and was a guest principal of the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony. Mr. Inouye was a soloist in Wynton Marsalis’s video production Marsalis on Music under the direction of Seiji Ozawa and has appeared as a soloist featuring the WHO at Carnegie Hall. He has performed both the Haydn and Tomasi Trumpet Concerti with the New World Symphony. He has also performed the Tartini Violin Concerto, arranged for trumpet, with the Houston Symphony. Mr. Inouye has been a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony on numerous occasions performing Copland’s Quiet City, Bach’s Cantata No. 51, Vassily Brandt’s Concertpiece No. 2, and the Haydn Trumpet Concerto. He has performed his own jazz compositions on numerous occasions with the San Francisco Symphony’s Chamber Music Series.