Byron Stripling

Trumpet virtuoso Byron Stripling was born as Lloyd Byron Stripling on August 20, 1961, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He attended Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, and the Interlochen Arts Academy in Interlochen, Michigan.
Following his studies, Stripling was featured as lead trumpeter and soloist with the Count Basie Orchestra, under the direction of Thad Jones and Frank Foster. Later, he toured and recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Lionel Hampton, Clark Terry, Louis Bellson, Buck Clayton, Gerry Mulligan, J.J. Johnson, Jim Hall, Sonny Rollins, Paquito D'Rivera, Freddie Cole, Jack McDuff, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Joe Henderson Big Band and the GRP All-Star Big Band.
Stripling debuted at Carnegie Hall with Skitch Henderson and The New York Pops. He has been a featured soloist at the Hollywood Bowl as well as with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Utah Symphony and The American Jazz Philharmonic.
Broadway audiences remember Stripling as the lead in the musicals, Satchmo and From Second Avenue to Broadway. He also had a featured cameo in the television movie, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.
Stripling again portrayed Louis Armstrong in Dave Brubeck's revival of his The Real Ambassadors.
In 1989, Stripling performed at the Newport Jazz Festival.
In 2002, after a national search, Stripling was selected to succeed Jazz Arts Group founder, Ray Eubanks, as the Artistic Director of the Columbus Jazz Orchestra. He continues to serve in that role, while also performing throughout the world with symphony orchestras and his own small group.
In 2012, Stripling was a featured performer at the Vail Jazz Festival.
Stripling lives in Westerville, Ohio, with his wife, Alexis Wilson (writer and choreographer), and their two daughters.

• Stripling Now!
• If I Could Be With You (Nagel-Heyer)
• Byron, Get One Free (Nagel-Heyer)
• Columbus Jazz Orchestra, The Colors Of Jazz (2006; Produced by Joel Moss
• Columbus Jazz Orchestra, Come Together (2012; Produced by Joel Moss