MICHAEL R. DUDLEY JR. DMA

COMPOSER, JAZZ TRUMPET

Michael R. Dudley Jr. is a trumpet player, composer, producer, educator, and photographer based in New York.

With more than a decade of professional experience as a musician, he has played at venues like NYC's Birdland Jazz Club and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola with groups such as the Maria Schneider Orchestra, Christian McBride Big Band, and the South Florida Jazz Orchestra. As a recording artist, he has played lead trumpet on multiple GRAMMY®-winning albums. He most recently performed at the Newport Jazz Festival with the Maria Schneider Orchestra as well as with his own trio.

As a composer and arranger, he has studied with Maria Schneider, Miho Hazama, Gary Lindsay, Noam Wiesenberg, and Stephen Guerra, recently earning a 2022 ASCAP Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Award for his piece "Overture to The Before And After Times." His works have been performed all over the United States, with more premieres scheduled soon. He was recently selected as a participant in the American Composers Orchestra's EarShot Composer Readings Program in partnership with the Next Festival of Emerging Artists.

Michael also values his work as an educator, serving as the Assistant Professor of Jazz Studies at SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music. Michael is also an instructor and recording engineer at the JAS Academy in Aspen, Colorado alongside Shelly Berg, Christian McBride, and Chuck Bergeron.