Austin Ford Quintet Featuring Noah Myers

About

TICKETS $35 - ALL AGES Austin Ford is an internationally acclaimed Jazz trumpet player from Portland, Oregon currently based in New York City. Austin attended the University of North Texas, where he was a two-year member, arranger, and composer for the Grammy-nominated One O’Clock Lab Band. Austin, now living in NYC, performs regularly with the Village Vanguard Orchestra (formerly the Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra), Grammy winning bassist John Benitez, and on the Broadway Show “Just in time”. In the past few years, Austin has received several prestigious accolades. Most notably, he is the winner of the 2025 ITG Carmine Caruso International Trumpet Competition. He also placed second in the 2021 ITG Ryan Anthony Memorial Trumpet Competition, and won the 2021 U.S. Army Blues solo competition. Austin now holds a master’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music where he studied under the tutelage of Ingrid Jensen, Jon Faddis, Scott Wendholt, and others. He regularly performs around the city at various venues such as Jazz at Lincoln Center, Birdland, and the Village Vanguard. He will be joined by Noah Myers, a New York City-based guitarist, educator, and band leader with a background