Mark J. Inouye is principal trumpet in the San Francisco Symphony.
He has held principal trumpet positions with the Houston and Charleston symphony orchestras and
has performed under the baton of Kurt Masur with the New York Philharmonic. He has also
appeared as a guest artist at the Playboy Jazz Festival, with The Who at Carnegie Hall,
and as a founding member of the Juilliard Jazz Sextet at Lincoln Center. As a soloist,
Mr. Inouye played the Tartini Violin Concerto arranged for trumpet with the Houston Symphony,
as well as the Haydn and Tomasi concertos with the New World Symphony. He performed
the Carnival of Venice Variations by J. B. Arban and the Hummel Trumpet Concerto with
the Tanglewood Wind Ensemble and Seiji Ozawa for the video production Marsalis on Music.
An active composer, he has premiered two of his jazz compositions, Find the Cheese and
The Bull Behind the Horns, on the SFS Chamber Music Series; both of these works are
featured on his debut album The Trumpet & The Bull.
