Julio Jeri

Adjunct faculty

Director of the WFU Jazz Ensemble, Trumpet

Julio Jeri is a trumpet artist from Peru and an active freelance musician in the continental United States. He specializes in various genres and has performed with groups such as Orquesta Mayor, West End Mambo, Afincao 336, Orquesta K’che, La Sonora Dinamita, Fuzion Latina, Caique Vidal y Batuque, the Charlotte Civic Orchestra, Winston Salem Symphony, Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra, and others. He has recorded professionally with the Charlotte Jazz Orchestra, Ryan Saranich’s Pocket Language, Caique Vidal y Batuque, and the 2019 Disneyland All-American College Band. He has also served as conductor and director of Central Brass Band, Ambassadors – Peruvian Band, the Charlotte United Community Brass Band, and the Nuestro Tiempo Latin Jazz Youth Ensemble.

Mr. Jeri is a lecturer of music at Guilford College and teaches trumpet lessons. At the University of North Carolina Greensboro, he co-leads the trumpet ensemble and teaches trumpet lessons to undergraduate students. Mr. Jeri is a graduate teaching assistant at UNC Greensboro while pursuing a Doctoral of Musical Arts degree in trumpet performance, and a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Jazz Studies. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Wingate University and a master’s degree from UNC School of the Arts. His research centers around trumpet player’s injuries from the student perspective to the professional perspective and the toll it causes physically, mentally, and emotionally.