Aidan Lombard, trumpet, was born in Washington, DC and grew up in Chicago. He began playing trumpet at age 10. Lombard attended the University of Miami as a Stamps Scholar and received a Bachelor of Music degree. He later received his master’s degree from the Berklee College of Music, where he performed with the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. Lombard has studied privately with Sean Jones, Brian Lynch and Bruce Daugherty. He has participated in the Vail Jazz All Star program, the GRAMMY Camp – Jazz Session, and the Jazz Band of America. A finalist in the Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition, Lombard has performed at festivals and clubs in Panama, Spain and the Netherlands.