Pat Mullen was born in Fresno, California and lived in Reedley. After a few years performing his first professional work playing in local nightclubs and touring with a Top–40 band Pat moved to Long Beach to attend California State University, Long Beach as a music major and to gain exposure to the Southern California music industry.

Pat’s musical employers have included the Queen Mary’s Royal Guards Band, Sitmar Cruises, the 1984 Summer Olympics, Marineland, the television show Fame, Frankie Avalon, Tony Bennett, Delta Burke and Gerald McRaney, Sandler & Young, The Bob Florence Big Band, Bill Medley, The American Cinema Awards Foundation, The Amateur Athletic Foundation, The Young Americans, The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (heralding the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1987), Touchstone Pictures (The Marrying Man, The Rocketeer, and Hidalgo), Paramount Pictures (Miracle Mile), The Los Angeles Raiders Band, Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus, The Tournament of Roses Pageant, Circus Vargas, The Los Angeles Circus Festival, The Long Beach Civic Light Opera, The Long Beach Municipal Band, Disneyland (Toy Soldier Band, Fanfare Trumpets, Disneyland Band, Fantasyland Brass, Tomorrowland Brass, The Show Biz Is Orchestra, Royal Band, and Dickens Brass), the Americus Brass Band, and various jingles, recordings, shows, and casuals.

In 1991, Pat returned to California State University, Long Beach to complete his Bachelor of Music Performance in Trumpet, immediately followed by a Master of Music, also in Trumpet performance. His awards included the Theodore Presser Scholarship, first place winner of the 1997 CSULB Concerto Competition, induction into the honor societies of Pi Kappa Lambda and Phi Kappa Phi, and the Outstanding Thesis Award for his graduate thesis “Intonation on the B-flat Trumpet,” an analysis of intonation technique for trumpet players.

In 1996 Pat was the Logistical Coordinator for the International Brassfest held at CSULB in conjunction with the International Trumpet Guild and Tuba Universal Brotherhood Association. For this event he organized and deployed the facilities, equipment, and over 50 volunteers that served lectures, panel discussions, master classes, concerts, and a convention floor in the Pyramid.

Pat is currently a freelance trumpet player in the Southern California metropolitan area and maintains on-going employment in the Disneyland Fanfare Trumpets, Tracy Wells Big Swing Band, and Americus Brass Band. Pat is also a member of the Long Beach Community Band, a.k.a., The Shoreline Winds, for which he is currently serving as Vice President.

Mr. Mullen studied trumpet with Robert Nielsen, Charley Davis, and Rob Roy McGregor.

Patrick Mullen

Trumpet, Piccolo Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Alto Horn

City Sound Drum and Bugle Corps