Bruce Barrie is a noted performer on modern and historical brasses, including the piccolo trumpet, keyed bugle, saxhorn, natural trumpet and cornetto. In addition to sixteen recordings with the Chestnut Brass Company, Dr. Barrie is solo natural trumpet on the critically acclaimed Buxtehude Project (PGM), and is solo trumpet on the widely praised Naxos recording of the chamber music of George Antheil. He has been a soloist with the Boulder Bach Festival, Philadelphia Classical Orchestra, Concerto Soloists and the Princeton Bach Festival. He has performed with the Colorado Symphony, the Mont Alto Silent Movie Orchestra, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra as well as Boulder Brass and Denver Brass. Dr. Barrie has taught at Temple University in Philadelphia and Westchester University. A graduate of the University of Colorado, Westchester University and the Philadelphia Musical Academy, Dr. Barrie had studied with Frank Kaderabek, Samuel Krauss, Terry Sawchuk and James Burke. Dr. Barrie is a founding member of the Chestnut Brass Company, which started in Philadelphia in 1977.