Tim Mendoza

Tim Mendoza, a native of Denver Colorado, was born in 1986 and was given his first trumpet at age nine. That year he joined the Colorado Honor Band Association to help develop his playing and remained a member until his senior year in high school nine years later. In 2000, Tim began his freshman year at Denver School of the Arts, a local arts high school. It was here that Tim was very inspired to play music and in 2001 began trumpet study with Al Hood at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music.

Tim's music has already taken him to many places and has provided him with some amazing once in a lifetime experiences. In 2004, DSA won the "National School of Distinction" award from the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network and Tim was one of a small group of musicians chosen to play at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. in recognition of the award. That same year, DSA’s Jazz Workshop Orchestra was selected as one of fifteen big bands to participate in the prestigious "Essentially Ellington" competition and festival hosted by Wynton Marsalis. Consequently, Tim was able to travel to New York City with DSA and perform in Avery Fischer Hall. Later in 2004, Tim was the recipient of the Denver Concert Band's "Young Artist" award, where he was presented with a cash prize and an opportunity to perform as a soloist with the Denver Concert Band. As a result, Tim was featured in an article that comes out every year in the Rocky Mountain News called "Going Places.” Tim has also traveled abroad with his trumpet. In the summer of 2004, Tim went on a concert tour of Austria and Hungary with the Denver Young Artists Orchestra led by the Colorado Symphony's Adam Flatt. On this tour, Tim played in many great venues throughout these countries, including the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary. For five months in 2006, Tim studied music abroad at the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane, Australia as a University of Denver Cherrington Global Scholar. In May of 2007, Tim was awarded a scholarship by the Kanstul Music Company to attend the 2007 International Trumpet Guild conference in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Currently, Tim is pursuing a Bachelor degree in Trumpet Performance as a senior at the Lamont School of Music, where he still studies jazz and classical trumpet with Al Hood. He will graduate in 2008.

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