Trumpet Journey

Category: Classical Trumpet

  • Ten things I like about recording

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    Starting today, I will be recording five newly-commissioned compositions that I’ll record during the next five days at Colorado State University’s Griffin Hall. I am working with the fabulous team of Arts Laureate–the same team that recorded my first album, Refracted Light. I’m looking forward to this, and I thought I would post my top ten…

  • Accompanied trumpet duets from the Baroque

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    A couple of days ago I wrote a blog that explored some unaccompanied trumpet duets for the stage. Today, I would like to share some of my favorite trumpet duets with accompaniment–all from the Baroque era, starting with the Johann Pezel Sonata No. 69 for two trumpets played by Miha Peter. Here are two capricci…

  • Duets for trumpet

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    Continuing a series of blogs that I started a few weeks ago, today, I’d like to explore some trumpet duets intended for performance. Just two trumpets playing without accompaniment. For the purposes of this blog, I will exclude duet books like those by Clodomir, Paudert, Pietzsch and Sachse (not that we can’t perform these duets!).…

  • Shifting to summer, weekly rotation

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    In yesterday’s post, I talked about some ways that I will be optimizing my practice for an upcoming recording project that I am doing in July. But, of course, a typical musician is working on other repertoire simultaneously–and I am no exception to this trend. I have a few other performances that I need to…

  • Remembering “Night Club”

    Remembering “Night Club”

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    Over the last two days, I have reminisced about the first two movements of my solo for trumpet and orchestra that I composed and performed in 2014, titled Night Passages. I shared a recording two days ago of the first movement “Night Fall.” Yesterday, I shared a recording of the second movement, “Night Walk.” Today,…

  • Remembering “Night Walk”

    Remembering “Night Walk”

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    In yesterday’s post, I reminisced about being invited to compose and perform a solo piece with Ulysses James’ Washington Metropolitan Philharmonic. I shared the piano reduction of the first movement in that post–a slow flugelhorn piece that evokes the coming of night–“Night Fall.” I forgot to mention that these recordings are available on the Ars…