Abby Temple is a Kentucky-based trumpeter and artist from the piedmont of North Carolina. Passionate about classical music in diverse formations and contexts, she regularly performs early music to contemporary works with everything in between. Abby’s solo programs focus on the intersection of music and visual art, as her life has always included art and music fully intertwined, with strong imagery and senses connected to musical tones and timbres.
While in her master’s degree, Abby co-founded Chroma Collective, a 501(c)3 organization that combines music and visual art in interactive performances and promotes composers from historically marginalized backgrounds. Audience members are immersed in participatory, creative art-making while the Chroma chamber ensemble performs in their current instrumentation of two trumpets and soprano. Chroma Collective invites the audience to be artists themselves.
A versatile performer, comfortable to play the music of many styles and eras, Abby has performed on baroque trumpet with Mountainside Baroque (Cumberland, MD) and Bourbon Baroque (Louisville, KY). On modern trumpet, she served as Principal Trumpet with the Du Bois Orchestra (Cambridge, MA), and as a soloist, Abby performs programs of her own artistic connections by incorporating multi-disciplinary art, free improvisation, and teaching artistry. She also enjoys programming traditional trumpet and organ recitals throughout Kentucky with organist, Grant Holcomb.
Abby currently serves on faculty at the University of Kentucky as an Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet, where she assists Dr. Jason Dovel in teaching the trumpet studio, plays in the UK Faculty Brass Quintet, and serves as Assistant Director of the UK Summer Trumpet Institute. She earned a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA, where she served as a Teaching Assistant in Longy’s El Sistema program. She also holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from the University of Kentucky. Abby has studied trumpet with Ashley Hall, Andy Kozar, Jason Dovel, Tim Hudson, and Tim Phillips.
While in her master’s degree, Abby co-founded Chroma Collective, a 501(c)3 organization that combines music and visual art in interactive performances and promotes composers from historically marginalized backgrounds. Audience members are immersed in participatory, creative art-making while the Chroma chamber ensemble performs in their current instrumentation of two trumpets and soprano. Chroma Collective invites the audience to be artists themselves.
A versatile performer, comfortable to play the music of many styles and eras, Abby has performed on baroque trumpet with Mountainside Baroque (Cumberland, MD) and Bourbon Baroque (Louisville, KY). On modern trumpet, she served as Principal Trumpet with the Du Bois Orchestra (Cambridge, MA), and as a soloist, Abby performs programs of her own artistic connections by incorporating multi-disciplinary art, free improvisation, and teaching artistry. She also enjoys programming traditional trumpet and organ recitals throughout Kentucky with organist, Grant Holcomb.
Abby currently serves on faculty at the University of Kentucky as an Adjunct Instructor of Trumpet, where she assists Dr. Jason Dovel in teaching the trumpet studio, plays in the UK Faculty Brass Quintet, and serves as Assistant Director of the UK Summer Trumpet Institute. She earned a Master of Music in Trumpet Performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, MA, where she served as a Teaching Assistant in Longy’s El Sistema program. She also holds a Bachelor of Music in Music Performance from the University of Kentucky. Abby has studied trumpet with Ashley Hall, Andy Kozar, Jason Dovel, Tim Hudson, and Tim Phillips.
