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Brian Chahley (21) is a young, eager jazz trumpeter from Toronto, Canada. He is currently living in New York City, working towards a degree at New School University.

Influenced by Freddie Hubbard and Clifford Brown, he took up the trumpet at age 12, and since then has studied with Chase Sanborn, Stanley Rosenzweig, Nicholas Payton, Brian Lynch, Terell Stafford, and Lenny Ott. Brian's father Chris and his mother Lisa were both on the Toronto jazz scene in the 1980's, and got Brian interested in jazz. Brian's accomplishments include being the first Canadian ever selected to play in the Gibson/Baldwin GRAMMY High School Jazz Ensembles in Los Angeles AND being the only person in the history of the band to sit in the "jazz chair" twice in a row, playing in various Canadian Jazz Festivals, playing in the North Sea Jazz Festival in Amsterdam, performing at the US Consulate in Barcelona, Spain, playing with Jim Galloway's Wee Big Band, soloing with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and attending the Dave Brubeck Summer Jazz Colony in Stockton, California.

Brian has played and worked with such jazz notables as Dave Brubeck, Lewis Nash, Greg Tardy, Benny Maupin, Vince Herring, Brian Lynch, Matt Penman, Donald Brown, Benny Golson, Nicholas Payton, Jerry Bergonzi, Clark Terry, Kurt Elling, Gerald Wilson, Geoff Keezer, Mulgrew Miller, and Roy Hargrove. Brian plays a Conn Connstellation 38B trumpet with a Monette B2 mouthpiece.