About Me
Bio:
Thirteen year old American trumpeter Natalie Dungey came to international attention through her performance of the Arutunian Trumpet Concerto at the National Trumpet Competition that went through the trumpet world on Youtube when she was 10. Since then she has been a featured soloist with Christopher O’Reilly on NPR’s From The Top (show #202) and performed the world premier of “Calling The Calvary” by Hollywood film composer Mateo Messina written for her. Upcoming performances include the Artunian Trumpet Concerto with the Indiana Wind Symphony, the Hummel Trumpet Concerto with the Auburn Symphony (WA), a repeat performance of Prayer of Saint Gregory with the Northwest Symphony and featured soloist and guest artist at the Great American Brass Band Festival in Danville Kentucky, the Britt Festival in Jacksonville, Oregon, and the Festival Amadeus in Whitefish Montana.
Just before her 9th birthday, from her audition recording of the 1st movement of the "Concerto for Trumpet" by Hummel, she was advanced to the National Trumpet Competition Junior Division semi-final round in Fairfax, Virginia. There she was featured in a master class filmed for Fox 5 TV News in Washington D.C., coached by Professor Vincent DiMartino (world renown trumpet clinician and performer), Adam Rapa (solo artist and lead trumpet for the Broadway show "Blast"), and Vladislav Lavrik (Principal Trumpet of the Russian National Orchestra).
Past performances have included a second winning year at the National Trumpet Competition playing the Tomasi Concerto, soloing with the University of Washington combined University and Campus bands conducted by Eric Smedley & Vu Nguyen, the “Prayer of Saint Gregory” with the Northwest Symphony conducted by Anthony Spain, “The Trumpeter’s Lullaby” with the Auburn Symphony lead by Stewart Kershaw, Del Staiger’s “Carnival of Venice” with the Sammamish Symphony under the baton of R. Joseph Scott, Mateo Messina’’s “The Calvary” with the Bellevue Philharmonic conducted by Michael Miropolsky and Northwest Symphony.
Natalie has grown up in a musical family. Her mother is a professional violinist and her father a professional trumpeter and band director. As a toddler, she would sit on her father's lap while he taught trumpet lessons and attended rehearsals for the church orchestra, grabbing the mouthpiece and playing any chance she got. She could be found carrying (dragging) an old trumpet her dad gave her around the house and blasting away. She begged him to teach her, but he refused, believing she was too young. Undeterred, Natalie assigned herself the first few pages of a method book. After practicing them diligently, she put stars on the ones she could do well and again asked for her dad to teach her. Finally, at age 7, she began formal lessons with her dad, insisting that he teach her "just like his students." Other than her dad, Natalie studies with Adam Rapa, and she also has had the opportunity to take lessons with Jerry Oram, Jerome Austin, David Gordon, Jason Carder, Justin Emerich, and is often coached by her mom for both trumpet and violin.
Natalie resides in Issaquah with her equally prodigious tubist touting brother Clayton, younger sister Faith and her parents. She enjoys reading, school, nail polish, shopping (Lululemon!), doing crazy Yoga poses around the house, and playing with her friends.
