Bryn Roberts Trio meets Justin Copeland

Saturday, August 31st, 2024 – The 1905

Bryn Roberts’s internationally traveled trio makes its Portland debut to celebrate its forthcoming album with special guest trumpeter Justin Copeland.

Tasting notes: fiery, swinging, persuasive

Bryn Roberts is a pianist, composer, and educator who is in demand across a broad range of musical contexts. He is a mainstay on the Portland jazz scene and continues to maintain a presence in New York City, where he lived for fifteen years. He plays, tours, and records widely both as a leader and a sideman and is a frequent performer at nationally renowned clubs like Smalls, Mezzrow, The Jazz Gallery, and Dizzy’s as well as venues in Portland and around the world.

Justin Copeland is a trumpet player, pianist, educator and composer based from Fresno, California. He has been performing extensively as a professional musician for the past 10+ years all over the United States, and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. 

Justin completed his B.A. in Music Performance at California State University, Fresno (Fresno State) in 2011, and subsequently an M.M. in Jazz Studies at Northwestern University in June of 2013. Throughout the recent years, he has had the privilege of performing with and learning from many world-class musicians, like saxophonist, composer and educator Victor Goines, trumpeter, educator and counselor dr. michael caldwell, trumpeter and educator brad mason, saxophonist, composer/arranger, and educator christopher madsen, saxophonist and educator Sherman Irby, trombonist Elliot Mason, drummer, composer/arranger and educator Rich Derosa, legendary bassist and educator Rufus Reid, legendary trombonist Curtis Fuller, world-renown jazz educator David Baker, and legendary saxophonist and educator Nathan Davis. Justin earned his D.M.A. (Doctorate of Musical Arts) in Jazz Studies at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.

Justin has also had the privilege to perform at premier stages across the country, like the New Orleans jazz club, Snug Harbor, the main stage at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, the Riverfront Blues Festival (Wilmington, DE), the Little Walter Blues Festival (Alexandria, LA), the Chicago Jazz Festival, the House of Blues Chicago, Cliff Bell’s (Detroit, MI), Merriman’s Playhouse  (Southbend, IN), Dizzy’s Club Coca Cola at Jazz at Lincoln Center (NYC), and many, many others.

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