Barry Bauguess is one of North America’s most sought-after Baroque trumpet sololists and is Principal Trumpet of Apollo's Fire, Atlanta Baroque Orchestra, The Magnolia Baroque Festival, Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, and Opera Lafayette. He frequently appears as a guest artist with many of today's finest period instrument ensembles including Chatham Baroque, The Folger Consort, Tempesta di Mare, The Washington Bach Consort, American Bach Soloists, Tafelmusik, and was a member of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra from 1987 to 1999.

Barry serves on the faculty of the Baroque Performance Institute at Oberlin Conservatory, is a Kulas Visiting Artist in the Historic Performance Department of Case Western Reserve University. He is also the owner of The Baroque Trumpet Shop in New Bern, North Carolina.

He holds a BM and MM from the NC School of the Arts. He has recorded for Harmonia Mundi, Teldec, Koch International, Conifer Classics, Nonesuch, Sine Qua Non, PBS and NPR and has performed throughout the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, and Japan. When not physically attached to the trumpet, Barry can usually be found either in his kitchen cooking with his wife Paige Whitley-Bauguess or on the back roads of North Carolina racing his bicycle.