Biography

MSG Kelley Corbett joined the United States Army Band “Pershing’s Own” Concert Band in 2010, and has served as its Principal Trumpet since 2016. He has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra, the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Opera, the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra among many others.

MSG Corbett holds a Master of Music degree from the Mannes College of Music and a Bachelor of Arts from Virginia Tech. He has received multiple fellowships from both the Pacific Music Festival and the National Orchestral Institute. His primary teachers include Vincent Penzarella, Ray Mase, Mark Gould, and Allen Bachelder. He has performed under the batons of Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Leonard Slatkin.

MSG Corbett’s home studio is filled with a lifetime’s collection of trumpets, mouthpieces, mutes, and golf clubs. While he enjoys practicing trumpet, performing, and golfing, his favorite way to spend time is hanging out with his wife, Kathy, and their daughter, Gabrielle.