Summer Camargo

Summer Camargo, 22, is a native of Hollywood, Florida. She is a Jerome Green Fellowship recipient at the Juilliard School, receiving her Bachelor's Degree in 2023 and presently completing her Masters Degree. Not only is she a regular performer at notable NYC jazz clubs like Dizzy’s, Birdland, and with the Mingus Big Band, but Summer recently became the newest (and youngest) member of the Saturday Night Live House Band in 2022. Steadily collecting a list competition wins, grants, and awards, Summer was awarded the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist Award, the Dr. J. Douglas White Student Composition Contest, the International Trumpet Guild’s Ryan Anthony Trumpet Memorial Competition, and the Outstanding Trumpet Soloist Awards at Jazz at Lincoln Center's 2017, 2018, and 2019 Essentially Ellington Festivals—to name a few. Summer is now also a proud Conn Selmer/Bach artist. Since then, she has toured with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra on the Big Band Holidays Tour, performed with Jon Batiste at the Newport Jazz Festival, was a guest artist at “Wynton at 60,” participated in Betty Carter’s Jazz Ahead at the Kennedy Center, performed her original composition “Alazoo” at the 2022 Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala, played in the Broadway pit for Disney’s Aladdin, and much more. Now, Summer is releasing her debut album with Blue Engine Records in March 2024, coming full circle on the first phase of a promising career.