{"id":343,"date":"2015-08-25T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=343"},"modified":"2021-07-19T13:08:10","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:08:10","slug":"unexpected-trumpet-playing-professor-osorio-at-north-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/unexpected-trumpet-playing-professor-osorio-at-north-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Trumpet Playing Professor At North Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Campus music professor Claudio Osorio may look like your average professor who lectures, assigns homework, and gives three tests per semester, but he isn\u2019t your ordinary music professor; Osorio is in fact extremely well-known in the music world. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He has a tremendous catalog of artists whom he has worked with over the years of being a trumpet player including classical tenor Andrea Bocelli and legendary artist Celia Cruz.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osorio\u2018s musical journey began in the 7<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> grade when he realized that he wanted to learn how to play an instrument; so, he decided that he wanted to learn how to play the guitar as a hobby. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osorio joined his middle school band, and his teacher at the time told him he needed to play either a woodwind or a percussion instrument. Osorio went to the closet where they kept all of the instruments, and couldn\u2019t find the saxophone that he wanted to play. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Eventually, his teacher offered him a trumpet, \u201cand literally the second that I was practicing with it, I realized that I wanted to do that for the rest of my life.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At first Osorio was a bit hesitant with his trumpet, but he had some encouragement from his Jazz peers who said to him, \u201cThe trumpet can be heard throughout the orchestra, whereas other instruments don\u2019t have that commanding power.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Claudio-Osorio.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Claudio-Osorio-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"Claudio Osorio Quote \" width=\"296\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Claudio-Osorio-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Claudio-Osorio.jpg 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 296px) 100vw, 296px\" \/><\/a>Those words stuck in Osorio\u2019s head, which gave him the motivation to continue to achieve greatness with the rest of his career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osorio got his bachelor\u2019s degree from the University of Miami, and his master\u2019s degree in music performance from the Manhattan School of Music. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cI enslaved myself to the craft, and practiced every single day consistently,\u201d Osorio said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Throughout that time Osorio was playing trumpet alongside various artists like Donny Osmond and Juan-Gabriel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osorio admits that after touring for so long he got tired. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFinancially it wasn\u2019t that desirable because of the stability factor, but nevertheless it was a lot of fun playing in different cities, meeting new people that adore the artist and the band, of course,\u201d Osorio said.<br \/>\n[sam id=&#8221;3&#8243; codes=&#8221;true&#8221;]\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After touring for a while, Osorio decided to stay local and continued to perform for almost every major musical organization in Florida from the <a href=\"https:\/\/fgo.org\/index.shtml\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Florida Grand Opera<\/span><\/a> to the Symphony of the Americas. Osorio played for the Boca Raton Symphonic Orchestra, until it ended due to financial and management issues. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When Osorio searched for more stability in his life, Miami-Dade College offered him a full-time professorship, at North Campus. At first he was hesitant, just like when he got his first trumpet in middle school, until he he signed on for a year of teaching.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI kind of fell in love with it, and realized I could do this for the rest of my life,\u201d said Osorio.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Courtney Normandin, a former student of Osorio, gushed over how Osorio was such a fantastic and encouraging professor. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cHe would always encourage you and he would give you multiple opportunities as a student to have performances, like outside of school as well as inside school,\u201d Normandin said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Osorio feels that being a professor at MDC offers great opportunities to connect with young aspiring musicians. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt gave me a chance to give back to the community by sharing the knowledge that I have learned over the years of touring and practicing my instrument,\u201d Osorio said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Campus music professor Claudio Osorio may look like your average professor who lectures, assigns homework, and gives three tests per semester, but he isn\u2019t your ordinary music professor; Osorio is in fact extremely well-known in the music world. 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