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Sam Dechenne
trumpet, vocals
Sam is the trumpet powerhouse for 2HC. He comes from Portland, OR and is the sole representative of the west coast in the band. Starting off as a classical orchestral musician, he played for many local community and youth orchestras across the Northwest. While in high school he studied with renowned trumpet teacher/performer David Bamonte (Oregon Symphony) and Terry Everson (Boston Pops, solo artist). In the Summer of ’02 he attended the Tanglewood Summer Music Festival and had the opportunity to watch and perform with some of the best classical chamber musicians in the world, many of whom played in the Boston Symphony.
After graduating high school, he then moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music on scholarship as a trumpet performance major. While there, he had the fortune to study and perform with more great artists in many different areas of the music industry than he could have ever imagined. By the end of his first year at Berklee, he had already started and managed his own regularly gigging brass quintet, played on 2 independent film soundtracks, performed all over New England with numerous bands, and toured Japan for a month.
During the rest of his time at Berklee, he performed and studied many different types of music ranging from jazz and funk to chamber, Middle Eastern, Balkan, Dixieland, and pop music. Some of the people he performed with include: Tiger Okoshi, Denilo Perez, Eggui Castrillo, Lin Biviano, Zade, Omar Faruk Tekbilek, and many other Boston and New York professionals. In the Summer of ’06, he toured across the U.S. with an international Middle Eastern orchestra, and in the Fall of ’07 he toured Madagascar with a 7-piece Afro-Jazz band.
Recently, Sam has been composing a lot for his own jazz quintet, Of an Oak and for Two Hour Change. He is known especially for his versatility as a musician and his “rugged” good looks.
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