Born and raised in Rochester, NY.
New York based trumpeter/Composer/Arranger Brian Pareschi has a MM in Jazz Composition and Arranging from Manhattan School of Music, and a BA in Biology from University of Rochester.

He is very active in the Jazz/Commercial music scene in New York, and can be heard on everything ranging from TV and film soundtracks to jazz and big band recordings, Broadway shows, and regularly performs in clubs all over NYC. He has performed on the stages of many of the world's jazz festivals, including The North Sea Festival, Umbria, Pori, Montreaux, and New York's JVC Jazz Festival. He has toured and performed worldwide with a broad variety of artists, including Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, Phil Collins, The New York City Ballet, The Harlem Nutcracker and the Orchestras of Quincy Jones, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, The Lincoln Center and Afro Latin Jazz Orchestras, Louis Bellson, Bob Mintzer, David Berger, Ken Peplowski, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Max Weinberg, and the Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey Orchestras. He has worked with Aretha Franklin, Nancy Wilson, James Ingram, Patti Austin, Chaka Kahn, Bobby Mc Ferrin, Kurt Elling, Toots Thielsmann, Michel Legrand, Wynton Marsalis, Clark Terry, Phil Woods, Frank Wess, John Hendricks, Bobby Watson, Michael Feinstein, The O Jays, and The New York Voices.

More recently he has been heard on the 2013 Tony Awards, also with world renowned jazz and stage vocalist Marilyn Maye, and the Dave Liebman Orchestra. He can also be heard on upcoming CD releases by jazz vocalist Catherine Russell and jazz/blues artist Ron Sunshine and SNL comedian/vocalist Anna Gasteyer.

He has been commissioned and written for the US Marines' The President's Own, Bruce Springsteen and the Max Weinberg Big Band. Some of his film and television credits include the hit TV show SMASH, The Great Debaters, Evening, The Informant, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, as well as recordings for Barbra Streisand, Tori Amos, David Berger, Andy Farber, and Funkasaurus Rex. He is currently in the Broadway Orchestra for Motown the Musical and the original Blues and Rock band Desperate Measures. He also is frequently asked to teach at Colleges and Universities in and around New York City, including The Juilliard School, Rutgers University, Hunter College and SUNY Purchase.

He currently leads his own Jazz Orchestra, as well as BP Express, an octet, performing original compositions and arrangements in venues in and around New York City. Their premiere recording is scheduled to be released in the fall of 2013.