The longtime principal trumpeter of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, George Vosburgh is also active as an educator and music publisher. In 1979, Vosburgh joined the fabled brass section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. He was the youngest player ever to perform in the brass section. Vosburgh remained in Chicago until 1992 when he moved to the Pittsburgh Symphony as principal trumpeter. Vosburgh recorded extensively with the Pittsburgh Symphony and issued several solo recordings, including Trumpet Masterworks (2001) and Trumpeter's Heritage (2004). In 2017, critical of the settlement reached after a Pittsburgh Symphony musicians' strike, Vosburgh retired from the Symphony and took a faculty position at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University. There, he conducts the Carnegie Mellon Wind Ensemble, which has made several albums under his direction, including one of Richard Strauss' rarely heard The Happy Workshop, Op. posth., released in 2022.