DownBeat: 25 for the Future

DownBeat names Summer Camargo to their list of “25 for the Future” in the July 2024 issue.

“Trumpeter and composer Summer Camargo, 22, is used to being the youngest musician in the band. She spent most of her childhood playing with musicians many years her senior, and that hasn’t changed to date. Camargo is currently the youngest member of the Saturday Night Live house band.

Being the youngest is an advantage “because you get more experiences, and you get to meet the older generation,” she said. “But I guess [it’s also a] disadvantage, because sometimes people don’t take you seriously.” Camargo hasn’t encountered much of the latter, though. As a high school junior, she won the Ella Fitzgerald Outstanding Soloist award, and her high school band won firstplace at Essentially Ellington. Shortly after, Camargo began her studies at Juilliard thanks to the Jerome Green Scholarship.”

–Downbeat