festival participants

On Friday and Saturday February 26 and 27, UNLV hosted the university’s first trumpet festival. Featured guest artists included Bruce Barrie, member of the Chestnut Brass Company, Christopher O’Hara, former member of Synergy Brass, and Gary Malvern, trumpet professor at Furman University. Each of the soloists presented masterclasses to area trumpet students and performed a solo recital in their respective individual specialties. Organized by trumpet professor Steven Trinkle, the festival was sponsored by University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Music, Trinkle Brass Works, and a Better Education Through the Arts grant from the Nevada Arts Council.

Known for his work in historical brass instruments (keyed bugle, saxhorn, natural trumpet and more), Bruce Barrie has recorded more than sixteen CDs with the Chestnut Brass Company. A soloist with the Boulder Bach Festival, the Philadlephia Classical Orchestra, Concerto Soloists and the Princeton Bach Festival, Barrie has performed with many orchestras and brass ensembles.

Former member of the Synergy Brass Quintet Christopher O’Hara has performed extensively through the United States and Europe. A graduate of The Boston Conservatory, O’Hara has performed at the Ravinia and Tanglewood Music Festivals, The Festival de Camara de Musica in Aguascalientes, Mexico and the Nagoya Conservatory of Music, Japan. He has commissioned several works for trumpet including Robert Martin’s Four Places in New York and Karl Henning’s The Angel Who Bears a Flaming Sword. A prolific arranger, O'Hara has arranger more than 100 works for brass quintet, brass an organ, trumpet ensemble, and solo trumpet.

Dr. Gary Malvern has performed with the National Repertory Orchestra, the Spoleto Festival, the Greenville Symphony and the Aurora Brass Quintet. Malvern has taught at Furman University for many years, is an instructor for teh South Carolina Governor's School of the Arts, and is a graduate of Yale University.

Students and adults participated in the festival by performing in trumpet ensembles and attending the master classes and lecture-recitals. The festival culminated in the awarding of the Max DiGuilio Prize of $1000 to Megumi Kurokawa who performed the Honegger Intrada, and the Trinkle Brass Works Prize of $200 to high school student Kyle Overlay who performed Guillaume Balay’s Petite Piece Concertante as well as a Grand Finale Concert of all participants at 8:00 pm in Doc Rando Auditorium.

Source: Genie Burkett, Associate Professor of Music Education, University of Nevada at Las Vegas

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