Evansville’s new principal trumpet player, Micah Reinharz has been playing trumpet for over 10 years. He began in Arlington, Virginia where he grew up around members of the various military premiere bands and the National Symphony Orchestra. These musical experiences inspired him to pursue a degree in trumpet performance at Northwestern University’s Bienen School of music. There, his professors Thomas Rolfs, Michael Sachs, and David Bilger modeled the old Boston style of playing that Micah has grown to love and emulate. Micah also studied extensively under Tom Cupples who served as a mentor and close friend throughout the pandemic. In the summer of 2021, Micah was fortunate enough to tour with the Berlin Opera Academy in Karndersteg, Switzerland. He then spent this past summer playing at the Brevard Music Center Orchestra in North Carolina, with featured pieces such as Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet, Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, Mahler’s First and Third Symphony, Stravinsky’s Petrouchka, and Star Wars: A New Hope movie soundtrack. He now studies at Indiana University under John Rommel who teaches the Bill Adams school of playing, which famously simplifies trumpet playing into its foundational components of song and wind. Micah is also an active substitute with the New World Symphony in Miami, Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. Outside of the trumpet, Micah is a Real Estate agent based in Virginia and enjoys the outdoors, cooking, and teaching younger musicians.