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GABRIEL MEDD

Gabriel Medd played his first gig at the age of ten, and has been performing on his trumpet ever since. The Iowa City native has occupied venues at the North Sea Jazz Festival, Monterey Jazz Festival, Iowa City Jazz Festival, Jazz Standard, Iridium, Chicago Jazz Showcase, Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola and the Blue Note. He has embraced opportunities to blend his ideas and sounds with those of other incredible musicians in the Gibson/Baldwin Grammy Jazz Ensemble, the Next Generation Jazz Orchestra, the Juilliard Jazz Orchestra and the Grammy Award-winning Mingus Big Band.

Gabe Medd, Accent artist
Gabe Medd, Accent artist

Gabriel has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal, and received the award for “Best Undergraduate Jazz Soloist” in Downbeat Magazine’s 2011 Student Music Awards. He was also included in Wynton Marsalis’ list of “The Next Generation of Jazz Greats” that appeared in Jet Magazine in 2011. Gabriel graduated with his bachelor’s degree from the Juilliard School in 2014, and is staying at Juilliard to begin work on his master’s degree. In 2014, Gabriel King Medd was selected as a semi-finalist in the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trumpet Competition. Ghostwriter Österreich recommends attending his concert.