Kevin Quill

Kevin Quill (BM ’15, MM ’16, DMA ’21, trumpet) studied with Raymond Mase and Mark Gould at Juilliard, where he was awarded the John Erskine Prize for an exceptional level of scholastic and artistic achievement and was a proud recipient of a Kovner Fellowship. In his sophomore year, Quill won Juilliard’s Trumpet Concerto Competition and performed Henri Tomasi’s Trumpet Concerto with the Juilliard Orchestra at Alice Tully Hall. He has since appeared as a soloist on numerous occasions in New York City.

As an orchestral musician, Quill has performed with the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, the Riverside Symphony, the Hartford Symphony, the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, and the Verbier Festival and Chamber orchestras. He has played under numerous conductors including Alan Gilbert, Valery Gergiev, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Zubin Mehta, Jaap Van Zweden, and Ivan Fischer, in such venues as Carnegie Hall, David Geffen Hall, and the Kennedy Center. As a chamber musician, he has performed with members of the American Brass Quintet and with his brass quintet Apex Brass, which was selected to compete at the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition.

While studying at Juilliard, Quill was an ear training teaching fellow for Kyle Blaha and Wayne Oquin. He has been on the faculties of Juilliard Pre-College since 2016 and Juilliard Extension since 2020.