Andy Lott BIO

Andrew Lott has been Principal Trumpet of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic since 2015. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Trumpet Performance from Baylor University in 2012 where he was a student of Wiff Rudd and a member of the first Baylor Trumpet Ensemble to win 1st place at the National Trumpet Competition. He received his Master’s Degree from Indiana University where he was a student of John Rommel and served as the Associate Instructor of Trumpet.

While in Fort Wayne, Andy has been a featured soloist on Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Shostakovich Piano Concerto, Copland’s Quiet City, Haydn Trumpet Concerto, John Williams’ Born on the 4th of July and Theme from JFK, Isn’t She Lovely arranged for Doc Severinsen, and On The Sunny Side of the Street where he soloed with Leslie Odom, Jr. 

He has performed with the Cleveland Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Indianapolis Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, the Fort Worth Symphony, the Columbus Symphony and many other orchestras. He can also be heard on studio recordings for Disney and hundreds of sample recordings for Hal Leonard.

In September of 2020 in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic and a furlough from the orchestra, Andy founded Artist Unleashed a 501(c)(3) (known then as Artists Untied) and collaborated with over 200 local artists to produce the The Virtual Holiday Spectacular. The show was watched over 250,000 times and was the recipient of 3 LGL Emmy Awards for Technical Achievement, Sound and Best Composition/Arrangement.

In 2021, Andy joined Conn Selmer to oversee the Bach, Conn and KING lines of trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns as High Brass Product Manager. He designed all the new Bach 190 Series Bb and C trumpets while collaborating with top Bach Artists like: Rashawn Ross (Dave Matthew’s Band), Michael Sachs, Principal Trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra, Esteban Batallan, Principal Trumpet of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and many others.

In 2023 he started his own company Musical Instrument Technologies and developed the Lott Assembly System for Trumpet which included all the fixtures, jigs and tooling needed to assemble a trumpet. His fixture designs are now in use in the Bach factory building the trumpets he previously designed.

Andy currently resides in McKinney, TX with his wife and two sons.