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About Chloe

Hailed by the International Trumpet Guild for her “sweet, singing sound” and “shimmering vibrato,” Dr. Chloe Swindler (b. 1995) thrives on finding the sweet spots of blurred genre lines. Her career includes engagements as a soloist, chamber musician, orchestral musician, jazz musician, and studio musician. Chloe recently performed with pop singer Harry Styles at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Lizzo at the BET Awards, and Vanessa Williams with the Colour of Music Festival. She is the second prize winner of the 2019 International Trumpet Guild Solo Performance Competition and a finalist of the 2019 Yale School of Music Woolsey Concerto Competition.
As an orchestral musician, Chloe has performed under the batons of Peter Oundjian, Ken-David Masur, and Marin Alsop. As a recording artist and performer, she has played in Capitol Records (Los Angeles), Boston Symphony Hall, Dizzy’s Club (NYC), Scullers Jazz Club (Boston), and Lotte Concert Hall (Seoul, South Korea). She has served as the Trumpet Faculty for the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s YOLA National Festival, and as Music Lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles. In addition, she has led masterclasses and lectures at Shenandoah University, the Longy School of Music of Bard College, the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Colorado State University, Berklee College of Music, and the International Trumpet Guild Conference.
Chloe holds degrees from UCLA (Doctor of Musical Arts), Yale University (Master of Music) and Boston University (Bachelor of Music). Other institutions she has attended include the Royal College of Music, where she studied abroad in the fall of 2015. While pursuing her DMA degree at UCLA, she worked as Teaching Associate for the Brass Department and Trumpet Studio, and for the general education course “The Art of Listening.” Chloe also served as Co-Chair of the school’s Anti-Racism Anti-Discrimination Action Committee, and led the Culture of Academia Sub-Committee.
Chloe currently works at Berklee College of Music and Boston Conservatory at Berklee as the Assistant Director of Engagement and Programming for the Diversity and Inclusion Office.
In her role as the Assistant Director of Engagement and Programming at Berklee College of Music, Chloe oversees programming and community engagement at both Berklee and Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Since March 2022, she has coordinated Berklee’s graduation ceremonies for both Black students and LGBTQ+ students, alongside spaces for identity-based conversations including a panel discussion and trivia event for both Pride Month and Asian, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Chloe coordinated Berklee’s Latinx and Hispanic Heritage Celebration, which included performances and a moderated panel discussion including faculty, staff, and students. She also coordinated a field trip for students, faculty, and staff to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day at a celebration in Newton, Massachusetts, and has coordinated events with Berklee’s Health and Wellness office to ensure students take advantage of mental health resources and receive education on creative health practices.
In her role at Berklee, Chloe also serves as a staff fellow for the Social Justice Living Learning Community and as a mentor to students in the Black Scholars Initiative. In order to ensure that students have a voice in driving conversations related to both systemic and cultural changes within the Berklee community, she created and oversees the Diversity and Inclusion Ambassador Program. In addition, she holds a weekly conversation series - Community Space for Conversations - that encourages community members to engage in civil discourse and understand new perspectives about the intersection of current events, arts industry practices, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Predating the Community Space for Conversations and her work at Berklee, Chloe created “The Common Ground Series: Community Conversations”, a series that provides a space for people with varying levels of “common ground” to engage in respectful discussions on topics affecting their community.
While a graduate student, Chloe served as Co-Chair of the Anti-Racism Anti-Discrimination Action Committee at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music and hosted a weekly Anti-Racism Mindfulness series in the spring of 2021. She is the founder of the Yale School of Music Black Collective, a revival of a 1960’s student group for Black students in the School of Music. While at Yale, Chloe also served on the Student Advisory Council that advised the Dean of Students on agenda items regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and student life.