Chris King is a freelance trumpet player in Orlando, Florida. He has been a musician for Walt Disney World since 2005, and holds a Bachelors degree in music from Rollins College. He has performed with the Bach Festival Orchestra of Winter Park, and done various musical theatre productions throughout the state of Florida. He has had the pleasure of playing with artists such as Hank Williams Jr, Béla Fleck, Kirk Franklin, Clint Brown, David Benoit, Sam Rivers, Tony Vega, Meníque, Anthony Cruz, Chamaco Rivera, and Oscar Rizo.
Chris also serves as a composer/arranger for various Orlando big bands and popular music groups, often incorporating/orchestrating horn and string section parts, and adapting pop tunes for different ensemble instrumentation. He has appeared on nationally-syndicated television programs on ABC, PBS, TBN, ESPN Univision and Telemundo, has performed at music festivals throughout the United States, and did a brief stint as a member of the house band on the early morning news program “The Daily Buzz”. He can be seen weekly on ESPN's “Monday Night Football” theme song with Hank Williams Jr, during the 2011 NFL season. Chris can be found playing regularly in jazz, Latin, pop, funk/R&B, and ska groups through the American Southeast, and maintains a lesson studio of many students who are common accepted into district- and state-level honor bands.
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