Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Pablo grew up in northern Arizona on the Navajo Indian Reservation and in Billings, Montana. He has a Bachelor of Music in Trumpet Performance from Lawrence University, where he studied with Robert Levy, and a Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of New Orleans, where he studied with Terence Blanchard and Clyde Kerr Jr.
Pablo moved to Omaha Nebraska in 2004, where he was an active freelancer, performing across the Midwest. He attended the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency at the Kennedy Center in 2007 and also participated in the Banff Centre’s Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in 2009, led by Dave Douglas.
Since moving to New York City in 2009 he has become an active freelancer and educator. He has performed at New York venues including Joe’s Pub, The Blue Note, The Dimenna Center, The Waldorf Astoria, Music Hall of Williamsburg, Irving Plaza, Littlefield, and The Cornelia Street Cafe. Pablo has performed with a variety of New York based ensembles including Kyle Saulnier’s Awakening Orchestra, Julian Fleisher's Rather Big Band, Bobby Sanabria’s Multiverse Big Band, the Dan Pugach Big Band, and the NYC Brass Choir. He has released four albums of his original music, "Half Past" (2009), "Intrinsic" (2012), "Rubicon" (2014), and "Thought and Memory" (2023).
Pablo has appeared across the United States and Europe including New York, Seattle, Portland, Oklahoma City, New Orleans, Kansas City, Washington DC, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Poland. Pablo has presented concerts and masterclasses at Rocky Mountain College, South Dakota State University, Augustana University, and Southwestern Oklahoma State University.
In February 2015 Pablo traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan where he was a guest artist with the Afghanistan National Institute of Music for their Winter Academy. While there he gave individual and group lessons to the school’s brass students, taught a series of introductory jazz classes, performed in recitals, and assisted with outreach for Afghanistan’s only music school.
Pablo currently lives in Brooklyn, where is he on the teaching faculty at the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.