Ben Gunnarson is a trumpet player and music educator based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently Principal Trumpet of the Bay Philharmonic and also is a member of the Disneyland Band and the American Youth Symphony. Mr. Gunnarson is the Co-Founder and Vice President of the Los Angeles Brass Alliance. He earned is Bachelor’s Degrees in Trumpet Performance and Music Education from Indiana University and is currently pursuing his Masters Degree at the University of Southern California under the mentorship of Thomas Hooten and Jennifer Marotta. Mr. Gunnarson was a Fellow at the  2023 Brevard Summer Music Festival and participated in the 2022 National Brass Ensemble Academy at San Francisco Conservatory of Music. He also studied abroad with Vienna Philharmonic trumpet player Rudolph Amon in Vienna, Austria. 

He has performed with the Tony® and Emmy® winning broadway production of BLAST! The Music of Disney, as well as the California Young Artists Symphony, LA Film Conducting Institute Studio Orchestra, Cinematic Brass, the Disneyland All-American College Band, the San Francisco Wind Ensemble, and West Side Story at Indiana University. Mr. Gunnarson has been involved with Drum Corps International since 2013 as a performing member of the Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps including their championship season, as well as teaching on the brass staff of Bluecoats, The Company, and the Santa Clara Vanguard. He maintains a large private teaching studio and enjoys indoor rock climbing and assembling Ikea furniture in his free time.