Veniamin Margolin with new trumpet

L-R: Dorresteijn, Gusarov and Margolin

A trumpet has been sponsored for Veniamin Margolin, the legendary principal trumpet of the St. Petersburg (Leningrad) Philharmonic during the conductorship of Evgeny Mravinsky.

In October 2005, the Dutch trumpet player Reijer Dorresteijn played a contemporary music recital in St. Petersburg during the Conservatory Week Festival. He played on a Hub van Laar C trumpet (model C3). Veniamin Margolin was very excited about the sound of the instrument and would very much have liked such an instrument for himself. Later a group of trumpet players (most of them Dutch) decided to sponsor the costs of building a new instrument for Margolin.

In October 2006 exactly one year later the trumpet (a custom made “Margolin model” C trumpet) was finished. It was collected directly afterwards by Oleg Chernev, trumpet player in the St. Petersburg Capella Symphony Orchestra, as the orchestra happened to be touring through the Netherlands. Chernev was then able to deliver the instrument to Margolin, who reacted with great pleasure and has asked for his thanks to be passed on to all the sponsors involved.

About the trumpet Margolin says: “This Margolin model from Hub van Laar has a nice sound-colour with wonderful intonation in all registers, and meets all modern requirements. This trumpet is a universal instrument, as suitable for solo work as for the big symphony orchestras. I'm sure that this trumpet contains all the latest achievements in modern musical instrument manufacturing technology!”

More recent news about the trumpet is that there was a special presentation in St. Petersburg’s Glazunov Hall on 15th December 2006 with the cooperation of Kirill Gusarov and Reijer Dorresteijn, who performed a program dedicated to the manufacturing of the Margolin model trumpet.

Links:
Veniamin Margolin (profile on ITG 2005 awards page, please scroll down)
Hub van Laar in Dutch, English and German
Reijer Dorresteijn in Dutch and English