Trumpeter/composer/educator Dylan Canterbury graduated summa cum laude from the SUNY Purchase School of Music. Since then, he has worked with a number of notable figures in the world of jazz, including Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, the All Star O’Rourkestra, and the Smoke Big Band. Locally, he leads a quintet and co-leads the BWC Jazz Orchestra, and has performed with notables such as Keith Pray’s Big Soul Ensemble, the Empire Jazz Orchestra, Bobby Previte’s Upstate Composers Orchestra, the Tim Olsen Big Band, and the Jeff “Siege” Siegel Quintet. He released his debut album, “Going Places,” in 2020, to national acclaim and radio play.
His compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions have been performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, the Jon Faddis Jazz Orchestra, the Barcelona Jazz Orquestra, and many colleges and high schools throughout the world. He has over 50 original compositions, arrangements, and transcriptions published under Jazz Lines Publications’ Walrus Music label. He also works for Jazz Lines as an engraver and editor.
Actively involved in education, Canterbury is on faculty at the SUNY Schenectady School of Music, where he directs the jazz ensemble and teaches jazz trumpet, improvisation, and history. He was also formerly on faculty at the College of St. Rose, where he directed the jazz ensemble and taught courses in jazz improvisation and arranging. He maintains a studio of private students, and has conducted master classes and directed honors ensembles throughout upstate New York.