Trumpet Soloist & Chamber Musician
Ashley Hall is an internationally renowned trumpet soloist, chamber musician, clinician, and coach. From small rural villages in the developing world to grand concert halls, both personally and professionally Ashley has engaged in her passion for building community and inviting people into the experience of music as a tool for connection.
As the principal trumpet of the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Ashley enjoys regular cross-discipline artistic collaborations in non-traditional and traditional performance spaces in connection with their highly successful Summermusik Festival. She also held the position of third trumpet with the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra from 2003-2012, and has performed with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, Charlotte Symphony, Chamber Orchestra of the Triangle, Winston-Salem Symphony, Greensboro Symphony, Asheville Symphony, New World Symphony Orchestra, and Sinfonia Gulf Coast.
Her work as a soloist and recitalist has taken her around the globe including performances in Taiwan, South Korea, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, Mexico and China. Recent career highlights include solo appearances with the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra for their 2021 Holiday Pops and numerous solos with brass bands including The Lexington Brass Band, The New England Brass Band, and The North Carolina Brass Band. She regularly performs as a recitalist at universities and concert series venues. In 2019, she was the first trumpeter to perform for the esteemed concert series, Matinee Musicale in Cincinnati, OH which earned critical acclaim.
Ashley’s passion for community engagement through the arts has taken on many iterations over the years but remains a focus of everything she does as an artist. As a soloist, she looks for opportunities to personally engage with audiences–creating an atmosphere of musical reciprocity. She creates entry points for their experience of the music and intentionally allows space for audiences to connect with her in a personal way.
Ashley has extensive experience as a chamber musician. She has done numerous tours with the Rodney Marsalis Philadelphia Big Brass and Stiletto Brass Quintet and was one of the founding members of the electro-acoustic trumpet quintet, Fifth Bridge. Ashley and her husband, trumpeter Nathan Tighe, developed a show called “Art and Music: Making the Connection” which was featured in over 60 Dayton public schools and community venues. She also developed an interactive, multi-media brass quintet show called “Folk Tales: The Art of Story” which has been featured at the Cincinnati Children’s Theatre and the Forsyth County Public Library.
As an active recording artist, Ashley frequently enjoys time in the studio collaborating on new projects. She recorded a new CD in 2018 called “JUHLAT: Festivals and Celebrations” with the Brass Septet, Ameriikan Poijat. In 2019, she was one of the featured artists on the International Trumpet Guild’s recordings of the Brandt Etudes. Ashley also recorded a PBS Special with Carolina Brass and the North Carolina Master Chorale called the “Joy of the Season” which was aired every holiday season between 2017-2019. “Christmas Wrapped in Brass” (2017) also features Ashley in the solo cornet section of the North Carolina Brass Band. In the fall of 2007, Ashley released her debut album entitled, "Behold Him", a collection of hymns for solo trumpet, and she has recorded two CD’s with EUROBRASS, “Give Thanks to the Lord”, and “Worthy is the Lord.”
Ashley holds a bachelor's degree in trumpet performance from the University of Cincinnati-College Conservatory of Music and an artist diploma from the Longy School of Music.
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