Doug Reneau

Trumpeter Doug Reneau joined the Oregon Symphony in 2015.
Before moving to Portland, he held the position of Assistant Principal Trumpet with the
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra in New Orleans, where he performed and taught trumpet for
over five years.
Equally at home in a variety of musical settings, Doug has been featured as an improvising
soloist with Boyz II Men, Renee Fleming, Leslie Odom, Jr., and the Packway Handle Band,
among many others.
Doug is an active and passionate music educator. Currently instructor of trumpet at Oregon
State University, he taught at the University of New Orleans, taught private lessons at the New
Orleans Center for Creative Arts, and led masterclasses and performed guest artist recitals at
several major American schools of music.
He studied at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance in Kansas City, MO, and at Indiana
University’s Jacobs School of Music in Bloomington. His primary teachers were Keith Benjamin,
John Rommel, Jeff Bailey, and Peter Wood.
Doug grew up in a musical family in Sioux City, IA. His mother is a singer and his father is a
violinist. His brother, Charles, has been the bass trombonist of the Oregon Symphony Orchestra
since 2007.