Sunday Night Jazz Showcase
Program #198 (February 18 at 8:00 p.m.)
Ryan Kisor was born on April 12, 1973 in Sioux City, Iowa, and began playing trumpet at age four.
In 1990 he won first prize at the Thelonious Monk Institute’s first annual Louis Armstrong Trumpet Competition.
Kisor enrolled in Manhattan School of Music in 1991 where he studied with trumpeter Lew Soloff.
He has performed and/or recorded with the Mingus Big Band, the Gil Evans Orchestra, Horace Silver, Gerry Mulligan, and Charlie Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, the Philip Morris Jazz All-Stars, and others.
In addition to being an active sideman, Kisor has recorded several albums as a leader including Battle Cry (1997), The Usual Suspects (1998), and Point of Arrival (2000). He has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 1994.
(provided by Jazz At Lincoln Center)