Chloe Rowlands

Biography

Chloe Rowlands is a Brooklyn-based trumpet player, composer, arranger, and music educator. Born in Seattle and raised in Phoenix, she moved to NYC in 2010 to study at The New School College of Performing Arts, where she now is on faculty teaching trumpet.

Chloe is the Trumpet 2 chair-holder for Gypsy on Broadway and is a member of the critically acclaimed brass quartet The Westerlies, which the New York Times describes as “an arty quartet…mixing ideas from jazz, new classical, and Appalachian folk.” She also enjoys playing a wide variety of musical styles and has performed, recorded, toured and collaborated with artists such as Fleet Foxes, the ten-time GRAMMY award-winning Manhattan Transfer, Darcy James Argue’s Secret Society, GRAMMY award-winning The 8-Bit Big Band, Durand Jones and the Indications, Big Red Machine, Haley Heynderickx, and Theo Bleckmann. Recent notable performances include the Hollywood Bowl, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Forest Hills Stadium, the Monterey Jazz Festival, The Blue Note NYC, the Java International Jazz Festival, and the Jarasum International Jazz Festival.

Chloe has also worked in film and television, where she can be seen and heard featured throughout the soundtrack to Billy Crystal’s self-produced and directed film “Here Today,” and has recorded music for and appeared in the HBO original series “Gossip Girl.” As a composer, Chloe has been commissioned to write music for chamber music, ballet, concert bands, jazz ensembles, and has composed and produced original scores for short films, TV shows, and documentaries.