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Friday, May 23 – 11:00am James Bovinette, reporter Trumpet players attending Patrick Addinall’s master class on orchestral playing were given a tremendous opportunity to learn from one of the best. Addinall worked with orchestra s The main topic of discussion was centered upon breathing, and how important that this basic principle is to everything that we do as trumpet players. He began by showing how the breath is used for accurate and balanced section playing. With the assistance of students from the University of Oklahoma; David Amling, Cory Wilson, Heather Rodebaugh, Mikki Gramoll, and Lacey Rodfield, Addinall demonstrated how breathing together and in time is essential for making entrances together. He also instructed the students on how proper breathing allows for the level of relaxation necessary for an open and free sound on the instrument. Every single student in the group showed immediate improvement when they began to breathe correctly under Adinnall’s tutelage. Addinall spent a good deal of time in his session covering topics of how breathing helps control nerves in performance. He teaches that proper breathing allows trumpeters to use adrenaline from nervous tension to increase our senses and strength, thus allowing a negative condition to be used as a positive tool. Addinall also spent time talking with the students about the concept of using the air stream as a ‘fuel line” for sound, that must be kept supplied. He shared with the student and the audience his techniques for creating breathing opportunities by strategically selecting the places to breathe, and also how to finish notes for the purpose of creating necessary breathing opportunities
Mr. Addinall also discussed how phrases are built not only by volume, but by the size of the sound as well. With assistance from Bryan Yingst, Alex Cannon, and Evan Kecta from the University of Arizona, he showed how the strength of sound is not only effected by how much we breathe, but also by how we breathe. Addinall stated that he believe relaxation was the key to success and stressed that trumpeters should not push their exhale, but just let go. Everyone attending Mr. Addinall’s session came away with a sense of how the breath creates “soul” in a players sound. |
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ections composed of students from the University of Oklahoma and the University of Arizona on excerpts from Ein Heldenleben and Petrouchka.
