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Summer Camargo (New York, NY) is a 24-year-old jazz trumpeter, composer, and bandleader who was recently named “25 for the Future” rising jazz stars by DownBeat magazine. Camargo is a native of Hollywood, Florida, and a Jerome Greene Fellowship recipient at The Juilliard School, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Camargo is a regular performer at notable NYC jazz clubs like Dizzy’s and Birdland, as well as a member of the Mingus Big Band. In 2022, Camargo became the newest and youngest member of the Saturday Night Live house band and is also enjoying her most recent role as a band member in Broadway’s new musical, Just in Time.
Steadily collecting a list of competition wins, grants, and awards, Camargo was the recipient of the Laurie Frink Grant, was awarded the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award, the Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest, the International Trumpet Guild’s Ryan Anthony Trumpet Memorial Competition, and the Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center’s 2017, 2018, and 2019 Essentially Ellington Festivals.
In her young career, Camargo has toured with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, served as a panelist for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz Congress, performed with Jon Batiste at the Newport Jazz Festival, was a guest artist at Wynton at 60, participated in Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead at The Kennedy Center, and performed her original composition “Alalazoo” at the 2022 Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala.
As an educator, Camargo has conducted masterclasses at the JEN conference, the Louis Armstrong House Museum, as well as at multiple jazz camps. She has also adjudicated jazz festival competitions at Northern State University, the Eau Claire Jazz Festival, and Essentially Ellington Regional Festivals.
Camargo released her debut album To Whom I Love with Blue Engine Records in March 2024, which received a notable review in DownBeat magazine and was featured in their Hot Box.