Music at MoCA: Summer Camargo – Jazz at Lincoln Center Emerging Artist

Arrive as early as 6:15 pm to explore our Summer Exhibitions and to purchase delicious drinks and cocktails prepared by The Cup Bearer. 

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Summer Camargo, 21, is a trumpet student at The Juilliard School , a Jerome Greene Fellowship recipient, and is in her fourth year of college majoring in Jazz Studies. Summer, born and raised in Hollywood, Florida, most recently joined Lenny Pickett and The Saturday Night Live House Band on NBC, recorded her debut album under Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue Engine, won first place in the International Trumpet Guild’s Ryan Anthony Trumpet Memorial Competition, covered for Wynton Marsalis on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s 2022 Big Band Holidays Tour, and has been performing with her sextet in prestigious venues in NYC such as Dizzy’s and Birdland. She is the first ever triple crown winner in the history of Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington, winning in 2018 the Ella Fitzgerald Best Soloist award, the J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest, and winning first place in the festival with her high school, Dillard Center for the Arts. As a composer, she has had two of her original big band compositions performed by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in Rose Hall, one of them performed during their gala in spring of 2022. Summer is a proud Conn Selmer/Bach artist.