Aley is the Professor of Trumpet at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music and member of the Wisconsin Brass Quintet. He is a former member of the American Brass Quintet, with whom he performed internationally. As a New York freelancer, he performed with many New York City based ensembles. To his credit are recordings with the Wisconsin Brass Quintet, American Brass Quintet, PDQ Bach, the Orpheus Chamber Ensembles, and the American Composers' Orchestra. Aley has performed as soloist with the English Chamber Orchestra, the Composers' Brass Group for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., and on Public Radio. He has also soloed with the Vienna Chamber Orchestra in concert with Maurice Andre and is principal trumpet and often soloist with the Madison Symphony Orchestra. Aley has been an artist/teacher at the Aspen Music Festival, the Yale Summer School of Music at Norfolk, Ct., and UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic.
