Veniamin Margolin

About

Principal trumpet player for the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and professor at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Before Fame

Margolin took up trumpet playing when he was eleven and attended the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

Trivia

Besides being a trumpeter, Margolin was a poet.

Family Life

He grew up in Petrograd.

Associated With

Both he and Teddy Buckner were heavily influenced by Louis Armstrong.