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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe journey started in 1998 when my father bought me a Yamaha trumpet to play in school band. I loved playing it, and it was super fun – except I was always anxious. I had to sit out of my first concert because I nearly hyperventilated before getting on the stage, and went and sat with my parents for the concert that I should have<\/em> been playing. Don’t worry, things improved! I gradually made improvements and learned, and found myself doing my Graduate degree in Switzerland at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana, where not only did I continue my Horn journey, but picked up DJing for fun in 2015. Upon my return to the States in 2017, I continued my musical knowledge by continuing to DJ for fun, and playing in local orchestras until I was brought on board to Warburton Music Products in May of 2019. I’m a band geek gone rogue – a brass player, a DJ, a singer, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-253","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255,"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/253\/revisions\/255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
I continued with trumpet for a few years before I was asked in middle school to play either the Horn or the Tuba. I was enamored by the tuba, so I went “I wanna try tuba!” They put a Horn in my hands and went “Naw, you play this now.” They made the right decision for me, because in 2009 I began my professional career into Horn playing, starting a Bachelor degree in Horn at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. <\/p>\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bartosmusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/dbb7d10b-fb3e-464c-9c30-5c0214fba84b-478x1024.jpg\")
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From there things began to flourish – I was becoming a staple member of local orchestras, performing constantly. I never gave up on DJing, and in 2020 began live-mixing to continue to the next step.
In 2023 I moved back to Ohio, where I began marketing myself as a DJ to local venues. Today, I run Karaoke at several locations, I am a wedding DJ, I provide music lessons, and I still continue to perform in many orchestras across the state of Ohio.
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