A multi-talented musician, Deb Wagner is not only a professional trumpet player, but also an accomplished performer, music contractor, and producer. She has recorded the with the After Hours Brass on Music & Mistletoe and with the Wayne Bergeron Big Band on You Call This a Living and Plays Well with Others. Deb’s credits as music director include the 2010 Oscars Governors Ball orchestra, the musical Wartime Romance, and her current position as music director of the Belle Air Brass Ensemble. The Belle Air Brass Ensemble has released their debut CD, Simply Struttin’, and has performed at the Women’s Jazz Festival in Tokyo, The Royal Hall of Taipei, the Governors Ball as well as at events for the World Cup and the Super Bowl. The group has found an enthusiastic international audience, touring to countries as diverse as Taiwan and Japan. Deb has appeared on the silver screen in The Bodyguard, Inspector Gadget, The Other Sister, and acted as music contractor for such films as Fantasia 2000 and can be heard on Remember the Titans (marching band scenes). Her television credits include CBS This Morning, Felicity, Coach and Today in L.A.; She has not only made TV appearances from Tokyo to Australia, but is one of the few, the proud—the winner of The Gong Show. As a bandleader, Deb has been seen all over the West. She has opened for both the Drifters and Ron Carter (now there’s a combination) and for Herbie Hancock, for whom she also produced Digital Jam for the Los Angeles Macintosh Group (That’s right, Deb is a computer geek and Mac user who worked as an illustrator on the MacWorld Music and Sound Bible). Deb Wagner is a native of New Jersey and holds a bachelor’s degree in Music from the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts.