Event: Interlochen Trumpet Institute Date: June 19-25 Location: Interlochen Center for the Arts, Interlochen, MI (USA).
The Trumpet Institute provides an opportunity to enhance and develop skills in all styles of trumpet performance.
Students will join world-renowned artist-teachers in rehearsals, classes and performances. Faculty includes John Aley, Mike Davison, Vincent DiMartino, and Ronald Romm. Registration is open to trumpeters 15-22 years of age, and an audition tape is required.
Event: Ohio International Trumpet Guild Festival Date: April 17 - 2010 Location: Wright State University, Dayton, OH (USA).
Daniel Zehringer serves at host for the event, which is tentatively schedule with a full day of events, concerts, master classes and other events. Robert Sullivan, currently principal trumpet of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, will serve as the featured guest artist for the event.
Festival events include:
- Festival of Trumpets
- Master Class with Robert Sullivan, Pat Harbison and Alex Yates
- Recital featuring Robert Sullivan
- Jazz Recital with Pat Harbison and friends
Info: daniel.zehringer@wright.edu, or via phone at 937-775-2663 www: http://www.ohiotrumpetguild.org/index.html.
Tomasz Stanko was born in Rzeszow, Poland, 11 July 1942. He formed the quartet Jazz Darings in 1962 with Adam Makowicz (later replaced by Janusz Muniak); this was one of the first European groups to be influenced by Ornette Coleman. He played with Krzysztof Komeda (1963-7) and Andrzej Trzaskowski (mid-1960s), then led the Tomasz Stanko Quintet (1968-73), which included Muniak and Zbigniew Seifert and received considerable critical acclaim. In 1970 he performed with the Globe Unity Orchestra; later he worked with Michal Urbaniak.
From 1974 to 1978 he played in a quartet with Edward Vesala; thereafter he performed again as a leader, and in 1980 recorded as an unaccompanied soloist in India at the Taj Mahal and the Karla Caves temple. In addition to occasional solo engagements (from 1978) he played in the group Heavy Life with Chico Freeman, James Spaulding, and others (1980), performed with Jack DeJohnette and Rufus Reid (both 1983), belonged to Cecil Taylor's big band (1984), and formed his own group Freelectronic (1985).
Technically Stanko is highly accomplished; he plays a form of free jazz that displays both European and American influences. Stanko's music has changed dramatically in the last decade. He has managed to make his music more accessible without removing the grit and verve that has always been his trademark.
Thomas Reiner was born in Ludwigsburg, Germany in 1969. During his studies at the Universities of Music in Würzburg, Leipzig, and Weimar, his two most influential teachers were professors Helmut Erb and Uwe Komischke. Thomas Reiner is presently active throughout Europe as a soloist, conductor, and university lecturer.
His CD recordings are of high standard, proving his mastery of the trumpet.
He is highly in demand for oratorio performances and concertizes frequently with his duo partner and organist Frank Oidtmann. His brilliant and yet light tone in the high register range predestines him for performances of J.S. Bach’s redoutable Second Brandeburg Concerto. Thomas Reiner loves to embellish his melodic lines with rich ornamentation, as was expected of a soloist in the Baroque repertoire.
A trumpet player from Portsmouth has won through to the final of the BBC Musician of the Year 2010 competition. Sam Moffitt, a Year 13 pupil at Portsmouth Grammar School, will compete against four others in the brass section of the competition on February 7, competing for a spot at the national semi-final five days later.
Sam said: 'I thought my audition went well but the standards are so high, I had no idea whether I would be among the final five. It made my Christmas to learn that I am.'
Portsmouth Grammar School's director of music Andrew Cleary said: 'This is a very impressive achievement for Sam. He's very talented and committed, and an inspiration to many other young musicians. In some ways his selection at this level is not a surprise!'
In 2003, a year before completing his schooling, he carried off the second prize at the renowned international music competition of the ARD broadcasting network in Munich and was the joint winner of the Maurice André competition in Paris, after having won other important contests, such as the Prague Spring Festival (2003), the Timofei Dokschitzer Competition in Vilnius (2002), the Concertino Praga (2001) and the Tchaikovsky Conservatory Competition in Moscow (1997). In addition, he was awarded European Culture Prizes in Munich in 1999 and in Berlin in 2002.
Giuliano Sommerhalder studied with Pierluigi Salvi at the Conservatorio "Giuseppe Verdi" in Como and with Max Sommerhalder at the Detmold College of Music. He also gleaned important stimulus from Maurice André, Eric Aubier, Stephen Burns, Edward Carroll, Hans Gansch, Pierre Thibaud, James Thompson and others. He played in Claudio Abbado's Orchestra Mozart in Bologna in 2004, was chosen by Lorin Maazel as solo trumpeter for his Orquestra del Palau de les Arts "Reina Sofía" in Valencia, and since 2006 has been solo trumpeter in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly and a member of the brass quintet Italian WonderBrass. In 2008 he was accepted into the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme.
As a soloist on both modern and historical instruments, Giuliano Sommerhalder has appeared throughout Europe, in America and Asia, at the Vienna Musikverein (where he played Bach's Second Brandenburg Concerto), the Berlin Philharmonie and other important venues, at the Lucerne Festival and the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival. He has performed as a soloist with ensembles such as the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester of Berlin, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra in Hanover, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the Basle Chamber Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig, the Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie of Saarbrücken and the symphony orchestras of the Czech and Polish broadcasting corporations.
"Romantic Virtuosity", Sommerhalder's CD recording of 19th and early 20th century trumpet concertos, has recently been released.
Tine Thing Helseth, born in 1987, started to play trumpet at the age of 7 and is already one of the leading trumpet soloists of her generation, having appeared as a soloist with orchestras in Europe and Asia. She currently studies in Oslo with Arnulf Naur Nilsen.
Helseth has appeared as a soloist with many high ranked orchestras and her debut album (Classical Trumpet Concertos with the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra) was released in November 2007 on the Norwegian Simax label and has received excellent reviews: the leading Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten, nominated it the classical recording of the year. Awards include a 2009 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship, "Newcomer of the year in every genre" at the Norwegian Grammy Awards (she was the first classical performer ever to be nominated), 2nd prize in the Eurovision Young Musicians Competition in 2007, the prestigious Prince Eugen´s Culture Prize in Stockholm, Norwegian Soloists Prize 2006, The Norwegian Broadcasting (P2) soloist 2006 and Norway's Musician of the Year 2005.
Her festival appearances include Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Usedom Musikfestival, Bergen International Festival and Kissinger Summer Festival where, in 2007, she was awarded the Luitpold Prize as the most outstanding and interesting young artist of the year. Engagements in 2009 include debuts in Washington D.C. and Tokyo.
Event: 4th Annual International Trumpet Festival and 2010 Brass Fest
Locatioin: campus of West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, PA (USA).
Staff includes: trumpeters Joe Burgstaller, Vincent DiMartino, Kevin Eisensmith, Robert Skoniczin, Olivier Theurillat, and Brad Ullrich, hornists David Jolley, Elizabeth Pfaffle, and Adam Unsworth, trombonists Haim Avitsur, Nitzan Haroz, and Jim Pugh, euphoniumists and tubistsJonathan Fowler, Tom McCaslin, Paul Mergen, and Eric Spinelli, composer Eric Ewazen. Featured ensembles will include The Baroque Trumpet Ensemble and Bugle Group of The Unites States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, The WCU Faculty Brass Quintet, the WCU Criterions Jazz Ensemble conducted by Dr. Gregory Riley, and Wind Ensemble conducted by Dr. Andrew Yozviak.
Rex Richardson has become one of the busiest crossover trumpet artists in the world. Since 1995, he has recorded and toured around the globe with the critically acclaimed Rhythm & Brass, an ensemble with a reputation as one of the finest brass groups in North America. Richardson also toured North America and Japan as a member of the late jazz legend Joe Henderson’s Quintet and Sextet, and Europe with William Russo’s Chicago Jazz Ensemble. He has served since 1997 as fluegelhornist, solo cornet and jazz soloist with the Brass Band of Battle Creek..
In recent years Richardson has become increasingly active as a jazz and classical soloist. He has appeared as a guest artist with dozens of important ensembles throughout the world, including the symphony orchestras of Guangzhou (China), Tokyo and Osaka (Japan), Phoenix, Omaha, Rochester, Syracuse, and Oregon; the Orchestra Academic Baskent (Turkey), the Melbourne New Orchestra (Australia), the U.S. Navy Band and Orchestra in Washington, D.C.; the Athens (Greece) Jazz Orchestra, the Sydney (Australia) All Stars Big Band, the Navy Commodores Jazz Ensemble, the Brisbane Excelsior Brass Band (national champions of Australia), and many others.
Rex Richardson is the professor of trumpet and jazz trumpet at Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds degrees in anthropology and music from Northwestern University and Louisiana State University. He has served on the faculties of Loyola University, Columbia College Chicago, and Delgado Community College and as visiting professor at Ithaca College. In 1995 he was honored in Downbeat Magazine’s International Critics’ Poll as one of nine trumpeters deserving wider recognition.
Sydney and Australia will be the site for the 35th Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference. As the first ITG Conference to be held in the Southern Hemisphere, this could well be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for delegates from all parts of the world.
Great concert events will not be restricted to the evenings and you will be able to hear the Australian Army Band Sydney backing Geoff Payne and working alongside the trumpet ensemble from the Trumpet Ensemble of United States Washington Army Band Pershings Own. Waratah Brass, with Paul Goodchild and Ashley Hall amongst the soloists, will also delight with their high quality brass band concert, as will Ralph Pyl's Sydney All Star Big band in one of our feature evening concerts that will showcase a great line-up of Jazz soloists.
For Further details
http://www.australiantrumpetguild.com
T +61 2 9518 7722
F +61 2 9518 7222
PO Box 601E
itg2010@trumpetguild.org
Pyrmont NSW 2009
Australia
