Daniel Norris

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Daniel Norris is a familiar sight to audiences throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, active as an orchestral musician, soloist, and recording artist. He is a member of the Sacramento Philharmonic & Opera, and performs regularly with ensembles such as Santa Rosa Symphony, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Oakland Symphony, Marin Symphony, California Symphony, and others. As a recitalist and recording artist, his special interests include the discovery and promotion of new music for trumpet, the rediscovery of rarely-performed older pieces, and trumpet music composed by women. He has performed and recorded the world premieres of many such works.

An accomplished multi-instrumentalist, Daniel has performed professionally on a broad assortment of instruments including trumpet, French horn, flute, hurdy-gurdy, didgeridoo, and ukulele.  He can be heard playing several of these instruments on the soundtracks to the video games Sam and Max and Wallace and Gromit’s Grand Adventures. He is a graduate of California State University, East Bay (BA in Music, 2001) and the Peabody Conservatory of Music (MM in Trumpet Performance, 2005), and is a certified Suzuki Method brass instructor. An enthusiastic and dedicated educator, Daniel has taught at Santa Rosa Junior College and has been on the faculty of Sonoma State University’s music department since 2017, serving as trumpet instructor and director of the SSU Brass Ensemble.