As a professional trumpet
player, he is a skilled musician in classical, commercial, and jazz
idioms, currently playing trumpet for television and movie soundtracks as well
as Jingles, Record Dates, Video Games and a good deal of 'live music such as Las
Vegas and Broadway shows. He has given master classes and
recitals at Hartt School of music, Boston University, and given lectures at the Curtis Institute, Oberlin College, and Harvard University. His performing affiliations have included the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Hartford Symphony, Chestnut Hill Symphony, UAE Philharmonic Orchestra (Dubai), Venezuela Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico to name a
few. Commercially, he has recorded, toured with or written for, Angela Bofill, Ashford & Simpson, Gladys Knight, Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes, Smokey Robinson, The Temptations, M.F.S.B, Isaac Hayes, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Barry Manilow, Mel Torme, Tito Puente, Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Bobby Rodriguez y La co., Clark Terry, Jackie McLean, Teddy Pendergrass, Blondie and has been the recipient of 37 gold & platinum albums with over 387 movie soundtracks to his credit.
While in Ga., they contracted him to design
and develop the music & arts program for some of the state's charter
schools (K-5). Pugh’s principal teachers
include Sigmund Herring, Roger Murtha, Roger Sherman and Robert Nagel, founder
of the New York Brass Quintet. Since being here, Dr.
Pugh has also had success with seven of his trumpet students from Georgia and Pennsylvania, recently being accepted to Juilliard. (two 1st yr. Students, one in his 2nd year and one in her 3rd yr. plus three graduates) Dr. Pugh started “The Trumpeters Studio” in the
southern crescent area in 2006.
