Thomas Bergeron is a trumpeter, educator, composer, and improviser. At home in a wide variety of genres, he is dedicated to breaking down musical boundaries between performers, students, audiences, and presenters. His debut album on Daywood Drive Records features contemporary jazz chamber music inspired by the piano compositions of Claude Debussy. He has taught jazz, classical trumpet, and chamber music at Williams College, Bennington College, Amherst College, and Yale University. Thomas holds two advanced degrees in music from the Yale School of Music, as well as a bachelor’s degree in Management from the University of Massachusetts. He currently serves as principal trumpet with the Springfield Symphony Orchestra and has been a member of the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra. He has performed with The Temptations, Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Albany Symphony, Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Deep Purple, The Irish Tenors, Arlo Guthrie, and Byron Stripling. Thomas is a founding member of the Reveille Trumpet Collective, dedicated to expanding the contemporary music repertoire for trumpet. He has commissioned and premiered works by Lukas Ligeti, Andy Akiho, David Kechley, Jay Wadley, and Jacob Walls. As part of his Academy program, Thomas teaches in the Bronx at Fordham High School for the Arts.