Peter Margulies
Adjunct Faculty, Jazz trumpet
Biography
Peter Margulies, a member of the Utah Symphony Orchestra trumpet section, performing duties as second, associate principal and 4th utility trumpet recently retired after 35 years of service. During that time he also served as principal trumpet of the San Antonio Symphony. He has also performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Teton Music Festival Orchestra, the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music and at the Tanglewood Music Festival. In 2002, Margulies along with Nick Norton, premiered Anthony Plog's Concerto for Two Trumpets with the Utah Symphony. He can be heard on numerous Utah Symphony recordings including music for the 2002 Winter Olympics with composer conductor John Williams and the symphonies of Mahler, Saint-Saens and Berlioz among others.
Margulies received his Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude from the Eastman School of Music where he studied with Charlie Geyer and concurrently pursued jazz studies.
After touring with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, he attended the Juilliard School where he studied with Mark Gould and received his Master of Music degree. Margulies taught classical and jazz trumpet at the University of Utah for 23 years while playing in the Utah Symphony.
Over his extensive career, Margulies has performed with hundreds of the greatest pops, jazz and classical artists of our time including Leonard Bernstein, Yo-Yo Ma, Pinchas Zuckerman, Itzhak Perlman, Lang Lang, and Renée Fleming. He has also performed with Sting, Bela Fleck, Blood Sweat and Tears, Burt Bacharach, Audra McDonald, Tony Bennett, Mel Tormé, James Taylor, Johnny Mathis, Ben Folds and many others. Margulies is married to UNLV faculty harpist Louise Vickerman who currently plays in the Utah Symphony where they met.