Trumpet Marmalade

Greg is a seasoned musician with very high level technical capabilities. Yet he prides himself on his ability to look past his technical execution and to be a true artist who focuses on the larger vision. He understands that music is a form of communication and entertainment. He likes making big impacts on people's lives through music, whether it be on a main stage or an intimate setting.

Greg Hammontree is a quiet revolutionary.

An artist whose work is both understated and unapologetically rebellious all at once, Hammontree challenges convention from the inside out. Based in New York, his extensive credits span The Blue Note NYC, Festspielhaus St. Pölten (Austria), Radio City Music Hall, Bing Concert Hall (Stanford), The Kaufman Center (Kansas City), and Konzerthaus Berlin (Germany).

“Infectiously energetic and inventive” (The Wee Review Arts & Culture, Scotland), Hammontree rejects the safety of generalizations, instead embracing the nuanced, the unexpected, and the deeply individual. His music resists easy categorization, thriving in the spaces where genres, disciplines, and ideas intersect — where complexity isn’t just acknowledged but celebrated.

His deep listening project Trumpet: Echoes combined live-processed solo trumpet with a spatialized audio installation, premiering at Socrates Sculpture Park’s 2022 New Agora Jazz Festival. Audience members navigated an evolving landscape of echoing jazz harmonies as they moved through the tree grove. His duo project Impressions, with pianist/composer Nicole Brancato, reimagines classical music’s Impressionism with modal jazz’s improvisational freedoms, and was featured at the 2024 Lunigiana International Music Festival (Italy).

A core member of The Queen’s Cartoonists, Hammontree combines theater and foley arts in his multi-instrumental performance (trumpet, trombone, and tuba), which pairs historic but underperformed works from the jazz tradition with projects from the golden age of animation as well as new animation commissions.

The Queen's Cartoonists ensemble has opened for the New York Philharmonic and has performed in 42 states and Europe, including Porgy and Bess Jazz (Vienna, Austria), Birmingham Town Hall (UK), SF Jazz, Teatro Tivoli (Lisbon, Portugal), and Jack Singer Concert Hall (Calgary, Canada).

As a composer, Hammontree’s work includes collaborations with artists like Jason Trachtenburg (Late Night with Conan O'Brien & MTV), as well as new work awards from the Queens Council on the Arts (2020, 2022, 2024), Flushing Town Hall (2024), and the NYC City Artist Corps (2021). On screen, his music and performances have been featured on Netflix, CBS, HBO, RAI, PBS, BBC3, ABC, and NPR.

A sought after teaching artist and presenter, Hammontree has delivered sessions at over 50 universities across the country, including Texas A&M University, University of Illinois, and SUNY Purchase. He is a voting member of the Recording Academy (GRAMMYS).

“Skilled, tight playing”
— Todd Crawshaw, Edmonton Jazz Society/Yardbird Suite

Greg will play acoustic without any extra charge or any additional set up time.

Greg is capable of amplifying himself or working with a sound team.