Christian Garner

Trumpet player from Minneapolis, Minnesota
_{Winner, National Trumpet Competition, 2025}

IN RECITAL, MAY 4 @ 3pm

CHRISTIAN GARNER

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Christian Garner is a sixteen-year-old sophomore at Minnetonka High School, studying trumpet with the Minnesota Orchestra’s second trumpet, Robert Dorer. In March 2025, Christian won the High School Solo Division of the National Trumpet Competition. This summer, he will tour Japan, Hong Kong, China, and South Korea with NYO-USA (Carnegie Hall’s National Youth Ensemble). Previous summers also included residencies with NYO2, performing with them at Carnegie Hall, the Dominican Republic and Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Center.Christian’s passion for orchestral trumpet playing won him, at the age of thirteen, the principal trumpet spot in Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) top touring ensemble, Symphony. Since then, he’s toured with GTCYS to Southern France and Spain, playing Copland’s Billy the Kid, Mahler’s Blumine, and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite at the Palau de la Música Catalana, as well as Italy, performing Shostakovich Symphony No. 5 at the ancient Greek amphitheater in Taormina. In 2024, Christian won the privilege of playing the first movement of Tomasi’s Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra with GTCYS Symphony at Orchestra Hall, Minneapolis.You can hear Christian play Kennan’s Sonata for Trumpet and the famous piccolo trumpet fanfare, Ablassen, on From The Top, Episode 442. In 2023, Christian won first prize in the Junior Division of the Ryan Anthony Memorial Trumpet Competition of the International Trumpet Guild. Other solo performances include Arutunian’s Trumpet Concerto with the Minnetonka Symphony and Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto with the Medalist Band. Local honors include winning the High School Winds division of Thursday Musical and Schubert Club, as well as being a finalist in the Minnesota Orchestra’s YPSCA Concerto Competition.In addition to playing trumpet, Christian has studied piano since kindergarten and was a winner of the MacPhail Concerto Competition. Outside of music, Christian enjoys mountain biking on Minneapolis’ singletrack trails and alpine skiing at local hills.