GREG PASCUZZI, arranger, piano, 2nd trumpet, 2nd percussion. Greg was born into a musical family and studied piano, trumpet and composition/conducting with many of the country’s leading artists. In1972 he joined the military, transferring to the U.S. Army Field Band in Washington in 1974, where he played solo cornet in the concert band and piano with the Jazz Ambassadors before retiring from the military in1999.
Greg’s original music and arrangements have been played by many orchestras and most of the major service bands in the US. Greg serves as co-director of music at Bishop Cummins Memorial Reformed Episcopal Church in Catonsville. Greg participates in musical missionary work throughout the world, much of his work with a UK-based group called Face2Face, which provides benefit concerts in prisons, orphanages and hospitals in Russia and the UK. Greg joined Peabody Ragtime Ensemble in 1999.