Concert & Contest Pieces for Trumpet and Piano FOR OVER TEN YEARS

FOR OVER TEN YEARS

March 2005

transcribed for brass quintet (Dec

An Examination of Max Schlossberg's Daily Drills and Technical Studies for Trumpet and the Existing Schlossberg Manuscripts (June 09)

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

Concert & Contest Pieces for Trumpet and Piano FOR OVER TEN YEARSBackground: 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