Internationally-acclaimed trumpeter Alison Balsom joins Frances Fyfield to study the manuscript of Johann Hummel's famous, and famously challenging, Trumpet Concerto. Show more Johann Hummel was a ...

Despite having his own highly virtuosic orchestra, Haydn wrote his Trumpet Concerto for an old friend called Anton Weidinger, who was a member of the Imperial Court Orchestra in Vienna. Weidinger was ...

The Tucson Symphony Orchestra will perform the American premiere of a new work by one of Mexico’s most prominent composers. This weekend’s performances, featuring Venezuela-born trumpeter Pacho Flores ...

The celebrated French trumpeter Maurice André loved to claim that the lung power required to play the trumpet as he did was sufficient to inflate a lorry tyre! The fragrant Alison Balsom looks too ...

MinnPost’s reporting is free every single day, but it isn’t free to produce. Join 4,800 members with a donation right now. Why commission a new work for orchestra? Paul Grangaard had many reasons for ...

Stacy Blair, who lost nearly all his sight at birth, played for his guide dog Guthrie in 1998. He was a soloist with orchestras in several cities, including Dallas. Stacy Blair was never able to see ...

Swedish trumpet virtuoso Håkan Hardenberger takes us on a tour of the French school of brass in his new album with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Featuring concertos by Henri Tomasi, ...

The versatile Australian composer Andrew Batterham wrote this Trumpet Concerto for David Elton, who plays Principal Trumpet with the London Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. He ...

Arrangements suitable for orchestral instruments, for beginners up to Grade 5. All parts have been designed to work together to enable mixed-ability groups to perform together. The Haydn Trumpet ...

Graham Taylor grew up in Irvine, California, where he began studying trumpet with Bill Perkins at the age of 11. By 14, Mr. Taylor was studying with David Washburn, principal trumpet of the LA Opera ...