Aaron Thompson is a Catholic musician and presenter who successfully highlights the challenges and solutions of pastoral music ministry through the eyes of church teaching, music, and family. Aaron effectively reaches out to adults, youth, clergy, and laity.

Aaron utilizes his skills as a professional Catholic composer, guitar player, trumpet player, pianist, and choir director, and his life experience as a working father and African American Catholic, to bring humor and life to his message.

Thompson picked up a trumpet in the fourth grade, and he’s had one instrument or another in his hands ever since.

“I really like to really mix things up style-wise and tempo-wise,” says Thompson, whose music has been influenced by everyone from The Jackson Five and Stevie Wonder to Elton John and Aerosmith. “I want the audience – whether they’re young or old – to find something that they can grab on to and take home.”

“My ministry as a church musician drives much of the stuff I write,” he says. “For example, there’s a song in Latin called ‘Ubi Caritas’ that’s done during Lent. The gist of the song is that when there’s charity and love, God is there. That inspired me to write “God is There” for the album.”

Thompson got his first taste of doing concerts at the Newman Center at Northern Arizona University, where he attended on a full trumpet scholarship. While in college, he also toured throughout the United States and Canada with the Continental Singers.

“Over the last couple of years, I’ve branched out into doing national level Catholic events,” he says. He performed at World Youth Day 2002 in Toronto, Canada.

Aaron's web site is: http://www.aaronthompsonmusic.com/sitepages/Home.html

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