Freshman music major earns Young Artist Award
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 9, 2025) — Adrianna Dick, a University of Kentucky freshman music education major, has been awarded the prestigious International Trumpet Guild’s (ITG) Young Artist Award. The guild awards four Young Artist Awards each year in a highly selective and competitive process.
Dick is a 2024 graduate of Bryan Station High School in Lexington, Kentucky. At Bryan Station, she was principal trumpet in the school’s symphonic band, lead trumpet in the jazz band and also played horn and baritone in the concert band. Dick was drum major for the Bryan Station marching band her senior year, and was also a featured soloist in the band’s halftime show.
Additionally Dick played in the pit orchestra for school productions of “Once Upon a Mattress,” “The Music Man” and “Guys and Dolls.” She also started a brass quintet her junior year, for which she arranged music on multiple occasions. During her senior year, the quintet entered in the Macauley Chamber Music Competition, where it won second prize.
Outside of her high school studies, Dick was invited by audition to the highly selective Kentucky Governor's School for the Arts for Instrumental Music in 2023. She was also principal trumpet in the 2024 MFA Honors Band of America, a Yamaha endowed chair.
As a high school student Dick participated in the UK Honors Wind Ensemble for three years, serving as principal trumpet of the top band her junior and senior years. She performed in the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra’s Jazz Repertory Orchestra as well as the Jazz Arts Orchestra. Dick was selected for the KMEA District 7 Symphonic Band and top Jazz Band her junior and senior years. She was the lead trumpet player in a KMEA All-State Jazz Band for two consecutive years, and spent multiple summers at the UK Summer Trumpet Institute.
She began attending UK in Fall 2024, and studies privately at the UK School of Music with Jason Dovel and Abby Temple.
As part of the award, Dick will receive a one-year complimentary membership to ITG.
The International Trumpet Guild is the world’s largest professional gathering of trumpet players, with more than 3,500 members in 56 countries. ITG holds an annual conference, issues a quarterly journal and supports the next generation through several competition and scholarship opportunities.
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