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Huw Morgan's Trumpet Blog |
Now the dust has finally settled after my BBC success, I've been getting down to the hard graft of not only preparing the Tomasi Concerto for the final in May, but also organising a suitable programme for my Wigmore Hall debut this autumn. Having to fill a 1 hour programme with a mixture of original compositions, transcriptions, arrangements, music from different periods etc. has been far harder than I originally thought, although after much discussion with my two teachers at Chets I feel I am finally approaching a suitable conclusion! It will come as no surprise that my main difficulty has been the question of stamina vs challenging pieces, and the usage of different instruments (starting on piccolo, then C trumpet, then Bb). For the opening piece, I have decided to make my own arrangement of Debussy's 'Girl with the Flaxen Hair' for the piccolo, having heard Jens Lindemann perform his own version at the 2005 ITG Conference in Thailand. I will also premiere a work for trumpet and piano written by a friend from Chethams, Luke Burke, who recently won the BBC PROMS Young Composer award.
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