A native of Connecticut, Christopher Scanlon has performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico, and across the United States.  Most recently Scanlon returned from his second summer as a fellow at the Tanglewood Music Center after completing a Professional Studies Diploma in the Spring of 2007 with Mark Gould at the Manhattan School of Music.  Last fall, Scanlon was in Singapore where he performed as the Guest Principal Trumpet of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.  Before coming to Boston Scanlon lived in Houston, where he performed with the Texas Brass, and served as Adjunct Professor of Trumpet at San Jacinto College while receiving his Master of Music from Rice University as a graduate assistant to Marie Speziale.  Before that, Scanlon served as Associate Principal Trumpet of the Orquesta Sinfonica UANL, in Monterrey, Mexico.  He received his Bachelor of Music from Boston University in 2001, studying with Thomas Rolfs and Joseph Foley.  Scanlon has also performed with the Boston Pops Orchestra, Boston Pops Brass, New World Symphony, Charleston Symphony, and Rhode Island Philharmonic and under the batons of James Levine, Seiji Ozawa, Kurt Mazur, Keith Lockhart, and John Williams.  In 2004 Scanlon spent his first summer at the Tanglewood Music Center where he received the Roger Voisin Trumpet Award, and in 2005  received a fellowship with the Spoleto Festival USA.  Scanlon was honored with a conference scholarship by the International Trumpet Guild in 2004 and has had work published in the International Women's Brass Conference Newsletter, and the International Trumpet Guild Journal.  In 2007, Scanlon was offered positions with the National Repertory Orchestra and Music Academy of the West, and is an Associate Member of the Chicago Civic Orchestra for the 2007-2008 season.  An ardent educator, Scanlon has served on the faculty at the inaugural Houston Trumpet Festival, has given coachings and master classes to the trumpet students of the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra, Houston Youth Symphony and the Houston Concert Band, and has maintained a studio of beginners to college-level trumpet students.  Scanlon is currently teaching and performing throughout the greater Boston area.