Bria Skonberg

Bria Skonberg is a Canadian jazz trumpeter and vocalist at the forefront of a revival of classic American music. Born in Chilliwack, British Columbia in 1983, she switched from piano to trumpet as a teenager, earned a jazz trumpet degree from Capilano University, and moved to New York in 2010. She won the Juno Award for Vocal Jazz Album of the Year in 2017 for her album Bria and has been named a DownBeat Rising Star a dozen times. Beyond performing, she is a dedicated educator, programming concerts and workshops for Jazz at Lincoln Center and the Louis Armstrong House Museum, and she leads her own band at clubs like Dizzy's.