Dr. Jesse Cook has been hailed by Fanfare Magazine as a trumpeter with “Technical surety, a shining tone, dynamic control, a smooth legato, and real imagination.” and by Grammy Winning artists as “A virtuoso who can do it all.”
Dr. Cook is the Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of Central Florida and the Principal Trumpet of the Atlantic Classical Orchestra and Visiting Principal Trumpet of the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also held appointments as Principal Trumpet of the Valdosta Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony Orchestra, and as the Studio Professor at Valdosta State University (GA), Pittsburg State University (KS), and Northeastern State University (OK).
Dr. Cook received his DMA from the University of Texas at Austin. He has appeared with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, The Florida Orchestra, Alabama Symphony and the Jacksonville Symphony, among many other ensembles. Dr. Cook has also appeared as a soloist in Böhm’s Concert for Trumpet in F with the Brass Band of Central Florida, in Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto #2 with the Austin Bach Cantata Project, Bernstein's Mass for Wind Ensemble and Brass Quintet with the Austin Symphonic Band, the Wind Ensemble at the University of Texas at Austin, and L'Histoire du Soldat with the Round Top Summer Festival Orchestra Faculty.
Dr. Cook is a founding member of the Palisade Trumpet Collective, a leading professional trumpet ensemble in the United States. PTC has commissioned several new works for trumpet ensemble and toured across Texas, Florida, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee. In late 2023, Palisade will release its debut album, “Sojourn” on Mark Records, and PTC will touring Belgium and the Netherlands in February of 2024.
A frequent recitalist and clinician, Dr. Cook has performed for and instructed students at universities across the United States of America and Europe. He is a regular judge at competitions with the International Trumpet Guild and National Trumpet Competition, has written several articles published in the International Trumpet Guild Journal and was an invited speaker at the 2019 National Trumpet Competition, the 2019 International Trumpet Guild Conference, the 2017 Georgia Music Educators Association Conference, the 2014 Texas Music Educator Association annual conference, and the 2014 International Trumpet Guild conference.