Aaron Bahr is an award winning trumpeter, composer, arranger, author, and educator based in New York City.  In 2024 he performed in the successful run as the trumpet player for the Tony Award Winning Broadway Musical “Illinoise” at the St. James Theater.  He is the published author of “Contemporary Trumpet Techniques” (BiM Publishing, 2023), a book of trumpet studies and etudes exploring advanced and innovative uses of the trumpet.  Bahr also has two albums out as a bandleader featuring his original composition and arrangements, Places, Real and Imagined (2021) and Prologue (2012).

Partial Performance Credits

• Strictly Sinatra at The Blue Note in NYC

• Willy Rodriguez Group at Small’s NYC

• Fukushi Tainaka at Small’s NYC

• Moto Fukushima at 55 Bar NYC

• Aaron Bahr Septet at Fat Cat NYC

• Clemens Grassman’s Grassmachine at Drom NYC

• Groove Merchant Japan tour 2017

• Tetsuro Hoshii’s Doggy Cats at Sunny’s Redhook, NYC

• Substitute Trumpeter on Broadway shows

  Awards and Recognitions:

• SFJAZZ HUT Foundation Alumni Commission Award (2015): Recognized for excellence in big band writing.

• Jazz in the Neighborhood Emerging Composer Competition (2015): Honored for outstanding jazz composition.

  Published works:

• Author “Contemporary Trumpet Techniques” (BiM Publishing, 2023)

  Albums as a leader

• Places (Real and Imagined) by the Aaron Bahr Septet (2021)

• Prologue by the Aaron Bahr Dectet (2011)

  Albums as a sideman

• Clemens Grassman’s Grass machines (2022)

• Morricone Youth’s Battleship Potemkin (2023) and Mad Max (2017)

• Tetsuro Hoshii’s Doggy-Cat Daikon Pizza (2019)

• Groove Merchant Groove Merchant (2017)