Clynt Yerkes - Musician, Artist Coach and Educator

Grammy Nominated Trumpeter and Arranger

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Education:

Master of Music: University of North Texas, 2008 Jazz Studies: trumpet performance Bachelor of Music: University of North Texas, 2006 Jazz Studies, Concentration: jazz trumpet; minor: theory.

Studied trumpet with Jay Saunders, Mike Steinel, Rodney Booth, Keith Johnson. Studied jazz/ commercial/improvisational music with Dave Brubeck, Stefan Karlsson, Neil Slater, Fred Hamilton, Mike Steinel, Lynn Seaton, Jim Riggs, Dan Haerle, Dave Pietro, Bill Perkins. Teaching:

Brooklyn College Preparatory For the Performing Arts, 2018 - present Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, substitute teacher in after school music education, 2018 - present

Private Teaching Studio in NYC (mostly based on referrals), 2009-present Brooklyn Music Lessons, Teacher of Applied Trumpet - 2009-2014 Musika, Trumpet and Piano Teacher - 2009-present

Woodmere Music Studio, Woodmere, NY, Instructor of Applied Trumpet/Beginner Piano, 2009-2010

DRS Yeshiva High School For Boys, Instructor of weekly class on brass and general music, 2009

Pioneer Middle School (Frisco, TX), Instructor of Applied Trumpet, 2009 Staley Middle School (Frisco, Texas) - Instructor of Applied Trumpet and band clinician - 2007-2009

Lewisville High School Lewisville (Texas), Instructor of Applied Trumpet and band clinician - 2007-2009

Durham Middle School (Lewisville, Texas), Instructor of Applied Trumpet, 2007-2009 Denton Independent School District (Denton, TX), Instructor of Applied Trumpet, 2006-2009 Private Teaching Studio in Dallas, TX, 2005-2009

General work:

Myspace NYC, real estate agent, 2015-2016

Chilo’s Brooklyn, Zagat-rated boutique Mexican restaurant, 2019-2021 Wow NYC Handyman, installation, repair and design, 2014-present Private Teaching Studio in NYC, 2009-present

NYCity Stuff, installation, repair, design, staging for television, set-building, 2010-2014 Performance Experience:

Freelance musician based in the New York City Area, Style experience in jazz, R&B, gospel, salsa, rock, big band, brass ensemble, musicals, studio recording. Diverse musicianship experience playing festivals, radio, television, arranging/ composing, club dates, concerts, and touring.

New York City Swing (New iteration) - touring based in New York and the greater US - 2022- present

The Hudson Project- 2022-present (R&B private event band) Boston Common - 2022-present

Liberty Band - 2021-present (rock private wedding band) Hank Lane Productions and Talent - post-Covid iteration, 2019-present From Russia With Swing - 2012–2017, 2020-present (jazz big band) Edgar Rosas Salsa - 2021-present (4 trumpet salsa group) Clynt Yerkes Quartet - 2009-present

Ambessa Orchestra -2017-2019

The Brass Flies - 2017-present

Elan Artists - 2018- present

Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph - 2015-2018 (brass choir) The Heavy, British based rock band, live trumpeter, 2019 Sly5thAve, The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute To Dr. Dre, Winter Jazz Fest, Studio Trumpeter on Album released on Tru Thoughts Records, 2018 Arlene Gould, lead and solo trumpet, 2017-present

Rag N Bone Man, Sony Records televised Echo Awards (German grammy awards), 2017 Fallen Saints, off-Broadway show, trumpet player and character in interactive musical theater show, 2017 Nona Van Der Wansem, Sony Records Studio trumpeter, 2017-present Kris Berry Studio trumpeter, 2017-present

Sly5thAve principal trumpet over a 23+ piece chamber group with strings, woodwinds, and horns, 2013- present.

Quantic, International touring jazz band, 2016-present Lukas Graham, lead trumpet, 2016

Elisa Coia, studio trumpeter, 2016

Charles Bradley (Daptone), lead and solo trumpet, 2015-2016 Ron Pope, David Bowie Tribute at Radio City Music Hall, 2016 Miss Velvet and the Blue Wolf, touring lead trumpet (for example opening for Jakob Dylan and The Wallflowers and touring Europe), 2015-present

Sleep No More, immersive theater, bandleader and staff trumpeter, 2013-present IGBO, Featured at Lincoln Center, The New Yorker, and NPR Music artists, 2015-present Elise Testone (American Idol), lead and solo trumpet, 2016-present Reggie Watts, Brooklyn Comedy Festival, Gotham Easy, NOLA hot jazz plunger soloist, 2016 New York Comedy Festival, trumpet/bandleader/arranger, with Hannibal Burres and James Adomian, 2015

Nick Lachey, Big Morning Buzz, studio and on air trumpet for VH1 TV show, 2013-present Clynt Yerkes Qunitet, (a staple of Sleep No More, Brooklyn based), 2009-present The Jelly, R&B house band co-led with Sly5thAve of Prince and Taylor Swift, 2014-present Club Casa Chamber Orchestra split lead/section trumpet, 2013-present New York Film Festival, (with Om’Mas Keith, Rob Lewis and Tangerine Dream), 2013 Denitia and Sene, studio trumpeter, 2014-present

Strawberry Jam, studio trumpeter, 2014-present

Rubber Tracks, staff recording trumpeter, 2014-2017 Double Down, NYC based swing band, 2012-2015

Sasha Allen, lead trumpet for broadway revue, Joe’s Pub, 2012 MK Groove Orchestra (Ropeadope Records), Sleep No More house band, 2011-present Quadron, New York tour run, 2012

La Madrugada, NYC salsa band, 2014-present

Storytellers, NYC Club Date Band, as featured in NY Magazine, 2010-present Silver Arrow Bands, NYC club date office, 2014-present Bill Whited Big Band, trumpet soloist/section, 2011-2013 Charlie Persip Big Band, lead trumpet/solo sub, 2010-2013 Hank Lane Productions, NYC Club Date Office, 2011-present Broadway Underground at B.B. King's, variety show, 2011 FIBA World Basketball Championship broadcast, section trumpet, Radio City Music Hall, 2010 University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band, jazz solo chair, 2008-2009 University of North Texas Two O’Clock Lab Band, jazz solo chair, 2006-2008 Almost all highlighted artists or involved recordings played on can be found on iTunes, Youtube, Soundcloud or on vinyl or CD.

Recording Experience and Studio Work:

DJ Center feat. Akoya Afrobeat, Brooklyn, NY, Dem Say Ah, (Push the Fader), studio trumpeter, 2019 Elise Testone, Elise Testone, This Is Love, studio trumpeter, 2019 IGBO, Attitude, studio trumpeter and collective horn arranger, 2019 Jesse Fischer, Flipped II, trumpet, 2018

Sly5thAve, The Invisible Man: An Orchestral Tribute to Dr. Dre, trumpet, 2017 Elisa Coia, studio trumpeter, 2016

An Oversimplification of her Beauty, studio trumpet for feature film soundtrack, 2013 Double Down, Make Your Move, trumpeter, 2015

MK Groove Orchestra, Creative Destruction, 2014

IGBO, Indigo-Green-Brown-Orange, 2014

Strawberry Jam, Lot More Livin’, studio trumpeter, 2014 Craig Shepard, Trumpet City, (On Foot Productions), trumpet on live recording of art music installation, 2014

Studio Work for The Bunker Studio, Brooklyn, NY 2011-present Studio work for Studio G, Brooklyn, NY, 2012-present Studio work for Seaside Lounge, 2011-present

Pana!, Piscina (EP), (Pana Music), 2011. Horn arrangement and trumpet on studio session. The Times, Everybody Be Cool (demo), (Seaside/Stepwise, Brooklyn), 2010. Horn section and solo work, 2010

University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band, Lab 2009, (Crystal Clear, Dallas), 2009

(Grammy nominated jazz album)

Cool Bone, From the Lone Star to the Gulf Coast, 2005 51 Acres, Thousand Miles Away (Rhapsody St., San Antonio), 2002 Jess Mills and the Usual Suspects, Right Out of the Blue (Jester), 2002 UNT Two O’Clock Lab Band,, Bruce Hall Jazz Music (Crystal Clear, Dallas), UNT Two O’Clock Lab Band, 2007 UNT Two O’Clock Lab Band, Denton Texas, Jazz Giant (Crystal Clear, Dallas), 2008

Other Recognitions:

Member of IGBO, NPR music featured artists, 2016

Huffington Post recognized soloist with BMG artist Alan Chapell, 2016 Member of Ropeadope records signed MK Groove Orchestra, 2014 Member of Grammy-nominated ensemble in the 'Best Album by a Large Jazz Ensemble' category - University of North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band - 2009 Endorsed Artist - Brook Mays Music Co, 2008-present) Recipient, Downbeat Student Award: Best College Big Band, 2007 Recipient, Bill Collins Sr. Jazz Trumpet Scholarship, 2006, 2007 Recipient, Texas Interscholastic League Foundation collegiate scholarship, 2003 Clynt Yerkes

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