Knox Summerour

Knox Summerour is a composer, trumpeter, and vocalist based in Los Angeles. He has performed on NBC's The Voice, FOX's American Idol, and can most recently be heard in Jeff Dunham's animation film "Achmed Saves America" (2014). Knox has had his music featured on ABC FAMILY's "Switched At Birth," NBC, CBS, and in both domestic and international film. In 2011 he wrote and sang 2 original songs in Paramount's Beijing remake of "What Women Want" starring Andy Lau & Gong Li. Knox won a 2011 L.A. EMMY for co-scoring the PBS documentary film "Pancho Barnes." Knox has performed in South America, Europe, China, and throughout the U.S., and has worked with Jeff Dunham, Kristin Bell, Leehom Wang, Landy Wen and Lin Yu Chun. Knox received undergraduate training at Berklee College of Music (BM) where he studied trumpet with Tiger Okoshi & Charles Lewis and composition & orchestration with John Bavicchi, Richard Davis, & Gregory Fritze, and was a Graduate Assistant at the University of Georgia (MM) where he was a protégé of the late Fred Mills (1935-2009), founding member of the Canadian Brass. Knox was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.