Tyler Kaneshiro

Tyler Kaneshiro is a trumpeter, composer, and educator who has performed in major venues throughout North America and Europe. He is a San Francisco Bay Area native who moved to New York in 2008 to attend New York University and pursue his dream of playing jazz in the heart of Greenwich Village.

Kaneshiro has had the honor of sharing the stage and opening for such musicians as Bob Mintzer, Dave Pietro, Ralph Alessi, Brian Lynch, Marvin Stamm, Bill Mays, Ingrid Jensen, Roscoe Mitchell, CDZA, Macklemore, Snoop Dogg, Sinkane and has performed at several venues such as Lincoln Center, The Blue Note, Dizzy’s Club, The Highline Ballroom, The Jazz Gallery, The Blue Note in Milan, The Jazz Showcase in Chicago, Mass MoCA, YouTube Brandcast in New York, Google Conference in Las Vegas, Catalina’s Jazz Club in Los Angeles, SFJAZZ, San Jose Jazz Festival, the Montreal International Jazz Festival, the Rochester International Jazz Festival among others.

Along with performing, he has composed music for film, theater, and podcasts. He is also a professional music copyist.

As an educator, Kaneshiro is a lecturer of Music Theory in the Department of Arts, Culture, & Media at Rutgers University – Newark and a faculty member of Express Newark. He is currently collaborating with Stefon Harris (Associate Professor of Music) to codify Harris’s unique approach to melody and harmony.

He was selected as a member of the Stanford Jazz Workshop’s Jazz Mentor Fellowship Program and continues to teach there every summer. He has also been a guest lecturer for the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at New York University.

Kaneshiro is featured in Dr. Thomas R. Erdmann’s book, How Jazz Trumpeters Play Music Today: Twelve Interviews on Technique, Style and Aesthetic. The book is a collection of interviews of trumpeters who reflect on the state of jazz and music in today’s world.