Mary Bowden
Trumpet
Phone: (804) 828-1166
E-mail: marytrpt@yahoo.com
Trumpeter Mary Bowden, a native to the Chicagoland area, now resides in Richmond, VA. She is a member of the Richmond Symphony and teaches classical trumpet at Virginia Commonwealth University. This past summer Mary performed at the Atlantic Music Festival in Maine, the Classical Britt Festival in Oregon, and the Lucerne Festival Academy in Switzerland under the baton of Pierre Boulez. The past few summers she has performed chamber music at the Marlboro Music Festival.
Mary has been a member of Symphony in C, National Orchestral Institute, National Repertory Orchestra, Encore Chamber Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Opera Orchestra, Yale Philharmonia and has performed with the Naples Philharmonic, Virginia Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, New World Symphony, and the Breckenridge Music Institute. In May 2006 she was the acting principal trumpet of the Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea. She has worked with Charles Dutoit, Hans Vonk, Eschenbach, Otto Werner Mueller, Zinman, Temirkanov, Spano, Simon Rattle, Rostropovich, Dohnányi, Gerard Schwarz, Solzhenitsyn, Sarah Hatsuko Hicks, and Sawallisch.
Mary made her solo debut in 1998 with the Birch Creek Symphony Orchestra performing the Arutunian Concerto, and has also performed the Hummel Concerto with the Lower Merion Symphony and the Vivaldi Concerto with the New Haven Chamber Orchestra. She enjoys performing solo recitals, and in January 2006 gave the American premiere of George Fenton’s 5 Parts of the Dance for trumpet, piano, and marimba in Sprague Hall at Yale University.
Mary received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with the principal trumpeter of the Philadelphia Orchestra, David Bilger. She was also awarded a full tuition scholarship at the Yale School of Music where she studied with Allan Dean and received her Master of Music degree in 2006. Before attending Curtis, Mary began college full time at age 14 and received her Associate Degree at age 16 from the Joliet Junior College where she focused on literature and was a paid tutor of English and biology.
