Category: Chamber Music
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Recording project: that’s a wrap
Yesterday was the fourth, and final, recording day with Christian Amonson of Arts Laureate at the helm of the recording booth. We recorded Doug Hedwig’s beautiful three-movement work New Worlds for soprano, trumpet and piano. My CSU colleagues, Tiffany Blake (soprano) and Tim Burns (piano) collaborated on this new piece. In fact, all five works…
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Chamber music: seven trumpets
In this post, I’ll share a few pieces written for a trumpet ensemble of seven trumpets. Today, the recordings were made by students (except for Ben Wright in the first example). A week ago, I wrote a post about the trumpet ensemble for baroque trumpets, but I forgot to mention probably the most important trumpet…
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Wedding music for trumpet: voluntaries
Today is the 27th anniversary of my wedding with my amazing wife, Melissa. As I am pondering that and looking at all of the weddings and anniversaries on social media at this time of year, I am thinking about all those wedding gigs so important to trumpeters. Now that the pandemic is winding down, those…
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Chamber music: trumpet ensemble for six
We will explore the trumpet ensemble for six today, and there are a lot of great pieces. Let’s start with the very prolific composer, Amy Dunker’s Florisshen, played by Illinois State University’s Valkyrie trumpet ensemble. She also wrote Slider for the same instrumentation. Full disclosure: I’m preparing an unaccompanied piece written for my by Amy…
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Chamber music: trumpet ensemble for five
The trumpet ensemble is a fluid genre. It can be scored for three to six to dozens of trumpets. In Monday’s post, I shared some modern trumpet ensemble literature for three and four trumpets. Today, I’d like to look at trumpet ensembles made up of five trumpets. Here is the Eastman trumpet ensemble playing Tony…
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Brass chamber music: the modern trumpet ensemble for 3 and 4
Yesterday’s post explored the trumpet ensemble in terms of early, natural trumpets. Today, I’d like to introduce the trumpet ensemble from the perspective of modern trumpets with valves. I forgot to mention some of my ideas that go into defining a trumpet ensemble. In my opinion, a trumpet ensemble is a group of three or…