Concert & Contest Pieces for Trumpet and Piano January 2000

January 2000

transcribed for brass quintet (Dec

March 2005

I have performed the second movement both with a straight (trumcor) and cup mute and chose the latter for this recording as a good color contrast from the bombast and bravura style in the outer two movements

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Concert & Contest Pieces for Trumpet and Piano January 2000Background: FOR OVER TEN YEARS, I have had the idea of recording a compact disk of trumpet music that featured common pieces that students, teachers and concert performers would use either for contests or concerts. The works I have chosen, except perhaps the Koetsier Concertino, are among those often used in most American teaching studios and in recitals. Yet when I began seriously contemplating this project in 2008, my research then indicated that