Category: Orchestral Trumpet
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Tone trick: clock your mouthpiece
You probably saw it coming, or maybe you didn’t, but today I am continuing my blogging about how the mouthpiece affects your tone with the fascinating and unusual practice of clocking your mouthpiece. I learned this technique from my colleague and friend, the late Aigi Hurn, principal trumpet of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia. Background:…
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Some 20-year-old demo recordings
Like all trumpeters, I have made some demo recordings. Here are two I found from a while back. I hope you enjoy! The first is an excerpt from Verdi’s Rigoletto. I think it is the “banda” first trumpet part. This recording is about 20 years old. There is no editing. The second is Honegger’s Intrada.…
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Interview with MSU Trumpet Professor, Justin Emerich
A nationally renowned trumpeter and teacher with extensive national and international performing experience, Justin Emerich is associate professor of trumpet at the MSU College of Music. Emerich’s orchestral experience includes serving as acting associate principal trumpet of the San Francisco Symphony, as well as performing with the St Louis Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra,…
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More performing and living in Galicia
The OSG 1996-97 season started out with the Third Music Festival of La Coruña, a city on the North Coast of Galicia in Spain. Everyone of these concerts had Spanish music, and with a special attention on Manuel de Falla: La vida breve, El sombrero de tres picos, El amor brujo, and his Concerto for…
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Interview with Dr. Sarah Stoneback: a tremendous talk with a triplet
Dr. Sarah Stoneback is an innovative and exuberant performer, with over twenty years professional performance experience. Dr. Stoneback is an active Conn Selmer Bach Artist/Clinician, trumpet soloist, chamber musician and orchestral performer who has frequented stages throughout the United States, Europe and China. She has been featured with groups including; the National Brass Quintet, the…
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Playing in the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia 1995-1996
I began playing with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia (OSG) in August of 1995. The first concert included Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, Borodin’s Polovtsian Dances, and Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky. We played Orff’s Carmina Burana and Bizet’s Carmen Prelude in San Sebastian and Navarra–in the Basque country. We played a concert in Santander. My friend,…