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 ...

Finnish composer Jaakko Kuusisto came to Buffalo in 2015 for the US premiere of his violin concerto as part of CAI’s FinnFest residency. While here, he began a collaboration with BPO Principal Trumpet ...

While the Chicago Symphony Orchestra continues its patient search for Maestro Right and prepares for the arrival of Bernard Haitink as principal conductor, it’s also renewing longstanding ...

The trumpet was the star instrument of the baroque period, but it fell out of favor not long after. “There are no trumpet concertos by Beethoven or Brahms,” trumpeter Steve Charpie said in a recent ...

Joseph Haydn was an Austrian musician who spent most of his career in the service of an aristocratic family in Hungary but became one of the most famous and well-respected composers of his time. As ...

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 ...

An attractive coupling of early and late works that brings together three generations of the Shostakovich family–composer Dmitri; his son, conductor Maxim; and his grandson, pianist Dmitri ...

It was a great weekend for Shostakovich and Prokofiev concertos at the Aspen Music Festival, with a fine smattering of other concerto-like pieces to liven up the proceedings. Augustin Hadelich never ...

Growing up in South Dakota with four older brothers, playing trumpet was a lifeline for Neil Mueller, Lansing Symphony Orchestra’s principal trumpeter. “There was always someone stronger, faster or a ...