Wallace Roney (born May 25, 1960) is an American hard bop and post-bop trumpeter. He was born in Philadelphia and attended Howard University [LINK: http://www.howard.edu] [1] and Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts after graduating from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts [LINK: http://www.ellingtonschool.org] [2] of the D. C. Public Schools, [LINK: http://www.k12.dc.us] [3] where he studied trumpet with Langston Fitzgerald of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Diagnosed with having perfect pitch abilities at 4 years old, Wallace began his musical and trumpet studies at Philadelphia's Settlement School of Music. He began studying with Sigmund Hering of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the age of 7 up until Herring's death in 1980. Herring, along with the watchful eye of Eugene Ormandy, regularly presented Wallace at recitals at the Settlement School and with the Philadelphia Bras

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