Joey Tartell is in his fourth year as a trumpet professor at Indiana University's Jacobs School of Music. Although teaching full time, he is an active performer. Currently, Joey is the lead trumpeter for the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. Closer to home, he plays lead in the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra and the Steve Allee Big Band. Joey has also performed as lead trumpeter/featured soloist in Pops concerts with the Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras.

Mr. Tartell has toured and recorded with Maynard Ferguson, the Woody Herman Orchestra, and the U.S. Army's Jazz Ambassadors. He has also recorded with the Buselli/Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, Birch Creek Music Performing Center, where Joey has been a faculty member for 10 years, and Doug Lawrence Orchestra, and toured with the Glenn Miller Orchestra.

Students of Prof. Tartell are finding success in many different areas. While at IU, there have been members of Disney's All American College Band, finalists in the National Trumpet Competition and ITG's Jazz Competition. After graduating, they have gone on to teach public school, accept Graduate Assistantships or work on cruise ships and free-lance. Others, after completing Graduate Degrees have gone on to teach at the college level at such instituitions as Youngstown State, Louisville, and Wright State Universities.

As a free-lance artist, Joey has backed up such artists as: Doc Severinsen, Aretha Franklin, New York Voices, Don Henley, Manhattan Transfer, Barry Manilow, and Arturo Sandoval. He has recorded for: The Bob and Tom Show, Cedar Point Amusement Park, Electronic Arts, Williams Gaming, Konami, Chicago Tribune, McDonald's, Applebee's, the Orange Bowl Halftime and Parade, Hal Leonard Publications, and Shawnee Press, among others.

Joey completed his Bachelor's Degree in Trumpet Performance at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Barbara Butler, and was awarded a Performer's Certificate. Joey received a Master's Degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Miami, where he was Gil Johnson's Teaching Assistant. He has also studied with Mel Broiles and Vince DiMartino.