Mary Bowden
Trumpet
Phone: (804) 828-1166
E-mail: marytrpt@yahoo.com
Mary Bowden is currently third trumpet of the Richmond Symphony and second trumpet of Symphony in C in Philadelphia and adjunct professor of trumpet at VCU.
Bowden has been a member of the National Orchestral Institute, National Repertory Orchestra, Encore Chamber Orchestra, Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Opera Orchestra, and Yale Philharmonia, and has performed with the New World Symphony, Breckenridge Music Institute and most recently the Marlboro Festival. In May 2006, she was the acting principal trumpet of the Daejeon Philharmonic in Korea. She has performed under the baton of Charles Dutoit, Hans Vonk, Eschenbach, Otto Werner Mueller, David Zinman, Termirkanov, Spano, Simon Rattle, Slava Rostopovich, Dohnanyi, Schwarz, Solzhenitsyn, Sara Hatsuko Hicks and Sawallisch.
Bowden made her solo debut in 1998 with the Birch Creek Symphony Orchestra performing Arutunian’s “Trumpet Concerto,” and has also performed Hummel’s Trumpet 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.
Bowden received her Bachelor of Music degree from the Curtis Institute of Music where she studied with David Bilger, principal trumpet of the Philadelphia Orchestra. 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, Bowden 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.
