Bill Denton is in his ninth season as Principal Trumpet with the Lyric Opera of Chicago and his sixth season as Assistant Principal Trumpet with the Grant Park Summer Music Festival Orchestra.  

He was a member of the trumpet faculty at DePaul University for five years and has presented performances and masterclasses at Northwestern, Roosevelt, and Northern Illinois Universities.  

Bill frequently performs as Principal Trumpet with the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra and has appeared with the Chicago Symphony and the Milwaukee Symphony.  

He has also performed works in numerous chamber ensembles in the Chicago area including Walton’s Facade with the Dempster Street Pro-Musica Chamber Ensemble, Bach’s 2nd Brandenberg Concerto and Poulenc’s le Bal Masque for WFMT radio’s Summer Rush Hour concerts.  

In 2014 Bill was featured as guest soloist with the Sibiu Philharmonic in Sibiu Romania.  More recently he performed as guest soloist at the National Brass Band Competition Gala Concert. 

Bill is also a visual artist and dabbles in aquaponics; the art of raising fish and growing plants in a symbiotic system.  Pretty cool, right?

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