Much to report 18 August, 2006

Well I could write about my magical weekend in Groß Dölln playing Mozart, my trip to Poland and the Czech Republic playing with world famos Krystof Penderecki, and my current project with a chinese orchestra…….but I’m much to exhausted.   That will be coming next week.  For now I’ve updated my “Upcoming Performances” page….take a [...]

The Grand Freeway of Luxembourg or The Grand Shopping Center of Luxembourg 26 May, 2006

or This Place is Boring! My apologies to “claude” who commented on the last posting, but Luxembourg is LAME! Ok Ok, in all fairness, its politically and historically interesting and there are lots of beautiful old buildings among the tasteless new buildings, but not much else. Around every corner theres yet another [...]

23 February, 2006

Today was a long rehearsal, we ran the whole program.  Some things sounds great, but others just need a lot of work.  It seems like many people just aren’t practicing the parts…everyone is surely in “semester break mode” this time of year, myself included! But come on people, please just practice your part once a [...]

4 down, 1 to go 11 February, 2006

The Barqoue concert last wednesday was a great success!  I don’t think I’ve ever played the instrument so beautifully.  Experiences like that make it worth it to continue practicing the baroque trumpet.  It can only get better from here!  Now if only I could get the darn trills to work more consistently….
Last night I went [...]

Sweet Success!! 6 February, 2006

Last night was absolutely great! The piece came over really well! Max got lots of compliments and I did as well. I think the piece was the highlight of the evening. Everything wasn’t 100% of course, we could have used a couple more weeks preperation, but it was a big success [...]

Progress! 4 February, 2006

Today was the dress rehearsal for my performance tomorrow evening. I must say, we sound amazing! I’m surprised at how fast we’ve put this piece together. In less than four weeks we’ve put together this 9 minute (!!) solo piece. All of the glitches and bugs with the computer program are [...]

One (g)love… 31 January, 2006

I recieved the last of the music today from the friend who is composing a piece for me. Well, for trumpet and live electronics which he will play. His name is Maximillian Meintz, he studies composition at my school. The piece is quite a challange, I’m looking forward to seeing how well [...]

Day Off 29 January, 2006

Its sunday, I think I’ve caught a cold, and in the midst of a crazy schedule I think it’s time to take a day off! Besides that, my lips feel a bit like deflated groud beef, or atleast what I imagine that would feel like…
My musical life has been picking up the last few [...]