Liam Sutcliffe

Liam Sutcliffe is a trumpeter based in the Philadelphia and New York metropolitan area, playing in a style rooted in the bebop tradition while incorporating more modern elements. A New Jersey native, he studied at Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts and attended the Manhattan School of Music. He was accepted into the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program at the Kennedy Center in 2019 and the JAS Academy Big Band led by Christian McBride in 2022, and he won the U.S. Army Blues Solo Competition in 2020. He leads the Liam Sutcliffe Quintet and has performed at venues including Birdland, Dizzy's Club, and Chris' Jazz Cafe.