Music for Trumpet and the King of Instruments

Rhys Boak

Rhys Boak is a Melbourne organist and accompanist, active as a recitalist on historic instruments and with Australian choirs. He is organist and manager of music at St Michael's Church, Melbourne.

Bruno Siketa

Bruno Siketa began playing the trumpet in 1988 while attending Geelong College on a music scholarship. He obtained Bachelor of Music performance at the Victorian College of the Arts, studying with Robert Sims, Anthony Pope and Geoffrey Payne. During his studies he performed in masterclasses with Hakan Hardenberger, David Staff, and Geoffrey Payne. In 2002 he was appointed Sub-principal trumpet in the Auckland Philharmonia and performed there for two years.

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750) was a German composer and organist of the late Baroque. His sacred and secular music for choir, orchestra, organ and solo instruments remains among the foundations of the Western concert and church repertory.

Alexandre Guilmant

Alexandre Guilmant wrote almost entirely for the organ: eight sonatas in the French Romantic symphonic manner, large practical collections for church use, and ceremonial pieces that still surface at weddings and recitals.

Astor Piazzolla

Astor Piazzolla turned the tango into something sharper, more restless and chamber-like. His nuevo tango draws jazz harmony and classical counterpoint into the dance without blunting its edge.

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff (1873–1943) was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor, widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music.

Dmitri Shostakovich

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (25 September 1906 – 9 August 1975) was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated of the twentieth century, whose symphonies, chamber works and piano music remain central to the repertoire.

Georg Philipp Telemann

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist. Almost completely self-taught, he became a composer against his family's wishes and ranked among the leading German musicians of his age.

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner forged music drama in which continuous song, orchestra and stage action move as one. Leitmotifs, dense chromatic harmony and blazing brass drive the Ring cycle, Tristan and the mature stage works that still shape how opera sounds.

Jean-Baptiste Arban

Jean-Baptiste Arban (1825–1889) was a French cornetist, conductor, composer and pedagogue who proved the valved cornet could stand as a true solo instrument. He is remembered for his lasting conservatory method and brilliant showpiece variations.

Remo Giazotto

Alan Hovhaness

Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000) was an American composer of Armenian and Scottish descent. One of the most prolific of the twentieth century, he left dozens of numbered symphonies and hundreds of works in a hushed, mystical and often exotic vein.

Vittorio Monti

Vittorio Monti’s Csárdás, written around 1904, is the piece that carries his name: a Hungarian dance of slow lament and whirling fire that has become a virtuoso showpiece far beyond its original scoring.

Vladimir Vavilov

Vladimir Vavilov's melodies travel widely under borrowed Renaissance and Baroque names. The lyrical Ave Maria long credited to Caccini is his, a serene line that sits naturally in song and in arrangements for trumpet and organ.