ABOUT DIRECTOR EDWARD CARROLL
Trumpet virtuoso and conductor STEPHEN BURNS is the Artistic Director of the Fulcrum Point New Music Project in Chicago. Winner of the First Prize at the second (1988) Maurice Andre International Competition for Trumpet in France, Mr. Burns is a former tenured Professor of Music at Indiana University and Visiting Lecturer at the Arturo Toscanini Foundation Corso MYTHOS in Bologna, Italy. Stephen Burns has performed in the major concert halls of New York, Boston, Washington DC, Los Angeles, Houston, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris, and Venice. He has been a guest at the White House and has appeared on NBC's "Today Show" and NPR's "All Things Considered". In recent seasons he has appeared with many leading international orchestras including the Atlanta Symphony under Neeme Jarvi, The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra under Iona Brown, The Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, The Arturo Toscanini Orchestra of Parma, the Japan National Philharmonic, Seattle Symphony under Gerard Schwarz, and a United States tour with the Leipzig Kammerorkester. Stephen Burns' recital programs often feature his own transcriptions of Falla's El Amor Brujo, Prokofiev's Lt. Kije, and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, the latter scored for trumpet, cornet, flugelhorn, piccolo trumpet, bass trumpet, and piano. He was invited, in 1988, to create innovative new music programs as the Artist in Residence with Performing Arts Chicago, assuming the role of Artistic Director of the Fulcrum Point New Music Project and the American Concerto Orchestra, whose mission it is to champion classical music influenced and inspired by Pop culture, Jazz, Rock, Blues, Latin, Folk, Klezmer, World Music, literature, film, art, dance, and theatre. Mr. Burns has given numerous premiers by American composers (Ned Rorem, David Stock, Gunther Schuller, Robert Rodriguez, Philip Glass) as well as composers of international renown (Stockhausen, Franck Amsellem, Somei Satoh, Sallinen). Committed to new music, Mr. Burns has written for trumpet, electronic music, chamber music, and symphony orchestra. His composition Reflections, a work created in collaboration with choreographer Ruby Shang, was performed around the Henry Moore reflecting pool at Lincoln Center. In 1993 he composed and performed the Inaugural Fanfare for the Kuhmon Talon Concert Hall and his most recent composition, Variations in America, was premiered in Hyannis, MA as part if their Independence Day celebration. He is currently composing Phalanx, a multi-media work based upon American military musical themes. Stephen Burns is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
EDWARD CARROLL (see above)
GABRIELE CASSONE received his conservatory diploma in Trumpet following studies with Mario Catena, and in Composition studying with Luciano Chailly. He is world renowned not only as a historical artist performing on original instruments (Baroque natural trumpet, Classical keyed trumpet, rotary valve trumpet and piston cornet), but enjoys an equal fame as a contemporary musician. Luciano Berio selected Gabriele Cassone to premiere his works for solo trumpet: Sequenza X for solo trumpet, and Kol-Od, performed with L'Ensemble Intercontemporain under the direction of Pierre Boulez. He has also shared the stage with celebrated trombonist Christian Lindberg in performances of Berio's opera Cronaca del Luogo, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival. Famous international conductors have requested Gabriele Cassone for performances of the most demanding trumpet repertoire; Sir John Eliot Gardiner named him principal trumpet in the English Baroque Soloists for the entire cycle of J.S. Bach's Cantatas, and for the Second Brandenburg Concerto, and Ton Koopman, director of the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, requested him as principal trumpet for the ensemble's recording of Cantata BWV 51 by J.S. Bach. He has a duo with Antonio Frigé, with whom he was co-founder of the baroque music Ensemble Pian&Forte. Gabriele Cassone has given solo concerts in major international theatres including the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Cité de la Musique in Paris, La Scala in Milano, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, New York's Carnegie Hall, the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London and the Vienna Konzerthaus. He is featured on over twenty acclaimed compact disc recordings in repertoire spanning the centuries from the baroque through the contemporary era. Gabriele Cassone is a professor at the Conservatory of Novara in Italy, and holds regular international masterclasses as guest professor at the Academy of S. Cecilia in Rome. He is frequently featured as guest lecturer and teacher at masterclasses throughout Europe and in the United States, and is a regular jury member at prestigious international competitions throughout the world. Gabriele Cassone plays trumpets, cornets and flugelhorn by Courtois.
MARK GOULD recently retired from his position as Co-Principal Trumpet of the Metropolitan Opera, a chair that he occupied since 1974, to concentrate on his teaching and composition. He joined the faculty of the Juilliard School in 1982, the Manhattan School in 2003, and is brass advisor to the Verbier (CH) Festival Orchestra. His students hold positions in many of the world's leading orchestras and chamber music ensembles. Long committed to the performance and dissemination of wind band music, Mr. Gould conducts both the wind ensemble and the orchestral wind repertory class at Juilliard as well as directing the Mainstreet Band in recordings on Angel/EMI. He has made many guest appearances and recordings with the Canadian Brass, Empire Brass, the Chamber Music Society of New York, and at New York's Mostly Mozart Festival. Mr. Gould's CD for Angel/EMI, Cafe 1930, a program of Brazilian and Argentinean music for solo trumpet and guitar, set the trumpet world onfire and his latest band Mark Gould and Pinkbabymonster is doing the same to New York audiences. Mark Gould is a Yamaha Performing Artist.
DAVID ROSENBOOM is a composer, performer, conductor, interdisciplinary artist, author and educator. He has explored ideas in his work about the spontaneous evolution of forms, languages for improvisation, new techniques in scoring for ensembles, cross-cultural collaborations, performance art, computer music systems, interactive multi-media, compositional algorithms and extended musical interface with the human nervous system since the 1960's. His work is widely distributed and presented around the world and he is known as a pioneer in American experimental music. Rosenboom has been Dean of the School of Music and Conductor of the New Century Players at the California Institute of the Arts since 1990 and was Co-Director of the Center for Experiments in Art, Information and Technology from 1990 to 1998. He taught at Mills College from 1979 to 1990, was Professor of Music, Head of the Music Department, Director of the Center for Contemporary Music and held the Darius Milhaud Chair from 1987 to 1990. He has worked and taught in innovative institutions, such as the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at SUNY in Buffalo, New York's Electric Circus, York University in Toronto, where he was Professor of Music and Interdisciplinary Studies, the University of Illinois, where he was awarded the prestigious George A. Miller Professorship, New York University, the Banff Center for the Arts, Simon Fraser University, the Aesthetic Research Centre of Canada, the San Francisco Art Institute, the California College of Arts and Crafts and Bard College. His music, performances, and productions have been recorded on various labels, most recently on Mutable Music, Centaur Records, Lovely Music Ltd., Cold Blue, Pogus Productions, Tzadik, Black Saint, West Wind, Elektra Nonesuch, Frog Peak Music and others. David Rosenboom is author of influential books such as Biofeedback and the Arts and Extended Musical Interface with the Human Nervous System and papers such as Propositional Music: On Emergent Properties in Morphogenesis and the Evolution of Music; Essays, Propositions, Commentaries, Imponderable Forms and Compositional Methods, Improvisation and Composition-Synthesis and Integration into the Music Curriculum and Collapsing Distinctions: Interacting within Fields of Intelligence on Interstellar Scales and Parallel Musical Models. He is also co-author with Phil Burk and Larry Polansky of the widely used computer software environment for experimental music, HMSL (Hierarchical Music Specification Language). Currently, he is working on a book about compositional models, entitled Propositional Music, and other writings in interdisciplinary topics combining music with neuroscience, cognition, self-organizing systems, evolution, theoretical physics and possible forms of intelligence.
THOMAS STEVENS was appointed to the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in 1965 by then music director, Zubin Mehta, who named him principal trumpet in 1972, a position he held until 1999. He served in the same capacity with the "Orchestra of the World," Sir George Solti's hand-picked group assembled in Geneva for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations, and the Casals Festival Orchestra in Puerto Rico. The Los Angeles appointment was preceded by a stint in the U.S. Army as solo trumpeter with the United States Military Academy Band at West Point followed by a one year engagement with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. In addition to his work as an orchestral musician, Mr. Stevens has performed and recorded as a soloist and chamber musician with major organizations, worldwide, including the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. He was a founding member of the Los Angeles Brass Quintet and also maintained an active presence in the Hollywood recording studios for many years, working on motion picture and television soundtrack recordings. Thomas Stevens is perhaps best known for his activities in the promotion, performance, and premier recordings of new music for solo trumpet. His efforts have resulted in works which have become staples of the genre, including compositions by Frank Campo, Robert Henderson, William Kraft, Henri Lazarof, Robert Hall Lewis, and Luciano Berio, whose "Sequenza X" was written expressly for him. Mr. Stevens' solo and chamber music recordings are available on the BMG-RCA Classics, CRI, DDG, London/Decca, DRG, Sony/CBS Classics, and Summit record labels. The solo CDs under his own name are on Crystal Records. Mr.Stevens' principal publisher for educational materials and musical compositions is Editions Bim (Switzerland) Some works are published by Alphonse Leduc, (Paris) Billaudot, (Paris) International, (NYC) and Wimbledon Music. (Century City)
MARKUS PIROL STOCKHAUSEN (b Cologne, 2 May 1957). German trumpeter and composer, son of Karlheinz Stockhausen. At age four he appeared as child at play in his father’s theatre piece ORIGINALS. He was 6, when he received his first piano lessons and at age 12 he began to play the trumpet. He attended the music secondary school in Cologne. From 1974 he studied at the Cologne Musikhochschule first piano with Klaus Oldemeyer, then classical trompet with R. Platt and jazz trumpet with M. Schoof, graduating in 1982. Further studies between 1978 and 1983 were with P. Thibaud, C. Caruso, T. Stevens and C. Groth. His jazz and classical débuts were in 1974 with the group "Key" at the Newcomer Jazz Festival in Frankfurt and in 1976 in his father’s SIRIUS at the Washington Bicentennial. In 1981 he was the winner of the German Music Competition. Already in 1974 Markus began to cooperate intensively with his father. The trumpet parts of the following works were written for and premiered by him: SIRIUS 1975-76 (with ARIES 1977); THURSDAY from LIGHT 1978-81 (especially the major parts in EXAMINATION, MICHAEL´S JOURNEY AROUND THE EARTH, DRAGON-FIGHT, VISION); SATURDAY from LIGHT (UPPER-LIP-DANCE 1984); TUESDAY from LIGHT (INVASION, PIETÀ 1990-92); IN FREUNDSCHAFT (1998). In addition to his activities as a soloist, he has played in and led various jazz ensembles, the quintet "Key" (1974-79), Rainer Brüninghaus Group (1980-84), Kairos (1985-90), Aparis (1989-96), various formations with the chilean bass player Enrique Diaz (1989-), Possible Worlds - with his brother Simon (1995-).Partners today are Enrique Diaz (b), Arild Andersen (b), Patrice Héral (perc), the hungarian guitar virtuoso Ferenc Snétberger, Antoine Hervé (p), Angelo Comisso (p), Christian Thomé (dr) and Mark Nausseef (perc) , the pianist Fabrizio Ottaviucci and in the duo "Moving Sounds“ he performs together with clarinetist Tara Bouman, with whom he lives and works since the year 2000. Concerts and Festival appearences, also for the Goethe Institut, have taken him around the world. His main interest as a trumpeter is intuitive, improvised and contemporary music. In February 2003 he premiered "Jetstream" for trumpet and orchestra, which was written for him by Peter Eötvös, who also conducted the premiere in London with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. In 2006 he premiered “Other Presences” by Jonathan Harvey for trumpet and live electronics at the Cheltenham Music Festival. The classical repertoire he plays on special request only. Today he mainly performs his own music. Since the year 2000 he established together with the visual artist Rolf Zavelberg a monthly concert series in the church of St. Maternus in Cologne, with mostly intuitive music, solo or in various duos. As a composer he has, in close collaboration with his brother Simon, written several film and theatre scores and created two open-air spectacles for the 5th and 10th anniversaries of the Philharmonic Hall in Cologne, with 70.000 and 100.000 spectators respectively. Recently he composed "Choral" and "Sehnsucht" for jazztrio and orchestra. New works have been comissioned and performed by The London Sinfonietta („Portrait for Tara“) and the Musikkollegium Winterthur („Sonnenaufgang“). In 2006 he wrote “Miniatur einer Seelenreise” for the 12 Cellists of the Berlin Philharmonic orchestra, which has subsequently been released on EMI classics. An extensive discography documents his achievements (ECM, AKTIVRAUM, CMP, ACT, ENJA, Stockhausen-Verlag). From 1992 until 1998 he has been under contract with EMI Classics. Recent releases include „nonDuality“ with Simon Stockhausen, as well as “Lichtblick”, a trio record with A.Comisso and C.Thomé. Numerous radio broadcasts and also television reports mainly on german radio and tv stations, such as the WDR, NDR, HR, BR, also Radio France, BBC, RAI (Italy), Estonian Radio, Norwegian radio and many others. For more information please visit Markus Stockhausen‘s website: www.markusstockhausen.de
Collaborative Pianist:
REBECCA WILT, Director of the Accompanying Program at Messiah College (PA), holds degrees in piano and vocal performance from Luther College, and a Master of Music degree in accompanying/coaching from the University of Illinois. Her teachers have included John Wustman, Jon Spong, and Jessica Paul. Ms. Wilt has collaborated with several vocalists and instrumentalists across the country. She has also been the accompanist for finalists in the Ellsworth Smith International Trumpet Competition, guest artists and solo competitors at the International Trumpet Guild Conference, the International Women's Brass Conference, and for the National Trumpet Competition in Fairfax, Virginia. She has recently been appointed as the head of accompanying for the Arban Institute in Pontlevoy, France and is also an accompanist for the Falcone International Tuba and Euphonium Competition. Prior to Ms. Wilt's appointment at Messiah College, she served on the faculty at Central Michigan University, at the Interlochen Arts Academy and the Interlochen Arts Camp in Interlochen, Michigan and was staff accompanist for the Keynote Arts Associates in Orlando, Florida.