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Weril Musical Instruments, the market leader in the wind segment in Brazil, and now exporting to over 60 countries, was in New Jersey for ITG. For the first time, the Brazilian trumpet player Anor Luciano was there performing as a Weril endorser. Luciano played in the New Music Solo Recital on 10th June.

Allan Ash, Weril’s manager for the US and Tony Colantonio, local representative, were also present at the Weril stand. Instruments on show included professional trumpet models from the Regium II range such as the ET8170 Symphonic trumpet and the ET7171 Soulhorn, together with the Concert and Studio trumpets and the Weril flugelhorn and cornet.

Luciano also performed as soloist with the United States Naval Academy Band on June 2nd, before his appearance at ITG. This concert, “Olé”, was the band’s final concert of the season. Luciano played Edmundo Villani Cortes' First Concerto for Trumpet and Band.

Anor Luciano Júnior

Born in São João da Boa Vista, a city in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, Anor Luciano has been professor of trumpet at Universidade Federal de Belo Horizonte since 1995. He is a former member of the quintet Brassil, one of Brazil's foremost chamber groups. Luciano has performed as principal trumpet with orchestras throughout Brazil including in Campinas, Santo André, São Paulo, Tatuí, Recife, and Paraíba. He has performed and taught in Brazil's leading music festivals, including Campos do Jordão, Curitiba, Londrina, Vitória, Belém do Pará, Macapá, Goiânia, Ouro Preto, and Diamantina.

As a soloist, he has performed throughout Brazil, the United States and Europe, including numerous commissions and world premieres by distinguished Brazilian composers such as Dimas Sedícias, Marcos Mesquita, João Linhares, Edmundo Villani Côrtes, Jose Ursicino da Silva (Duda), José Augusto Mannis, and Jovino dos Santos Neto. Luciano has collaborated with many Brazilian popular music icons, most notably Egberto Gismonti, Vagner Tiso, Paulo Moura, and Sivuca and conductors Ernst Mahle, Roberto Farias, Roberto Duarte, Roberto de Regina, Roberto Tibiriçá, Isaac Karabitchevisk, and Roberto Minczuk. Luciano is currently very active in improving music education and the level of instrumental performance in Brazil through the establishment of music festivals that bring internationally recognized conductors and instrumentalists to his home county and increase the awareness of pedagogy, repertoire, and literature associated with wind ensemble performance.

The Brazilian government has supported his research in this and other areas with several prestigious awards, including a grant from the CAPES foundation. He is a past president of Associaçio dos Trompetistas do Brasil. As an artist/clinician for Weril, Luciano has been very active in developing and designing new instruments.

 

Websites:
Anor Luciano (in Portugese)
Weril (worldwide)
New Music Recital (ITG 2006 Conference report)