Texas Baroque Trumpets - L-R: Jason Dovel, Nick Althouse, Keith Johnson, Adam Gordon, Leigh Anne Hunsaker

The Texas Baroque Trumpets, a period instrument ensemble comprised of Baroque trumpet players in the North Texas metroplex, recently performed at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas for an all-Mozart concert.

The Texas Baroque Trumpets opened the October 17, 2006 concert with Mozart’s Divertimento No. 5 in C Major K. 187. This unique work employed the use of two baroque trumpets pitched in D and three baroque trumpets pitched in C, as well as guests Marcia Straughn and Michelle Neal on flute and Jeremy Edins on timpani.

The concert also featured the premier of a recently completed Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart work, Credo from the Mass in C Major, K. 337. When Mozart began writing this Credo in 1780, he quit before finishing and started writing a new version. Some experts speculate that Mozart felt the original version was going to be too long and started over with a more compact version. HSU musicologist Dr. Murl Sickbert was given the task of completing the surviving fragment of the Credo. Leigh Ann Hunsaker and Nicholas Althouse were guest trumpet artists with the Abilene Collegiate Orchestra for this performance.

Other works performed on the concert included Mozart’s Organ Sonata in C Major K. 336/336d and Symphony in G minor K. 183/173Db.

Members of the Texas Baroque Trumpets include Keith Johnson (Regents Professor of Trumpet, University of North Texas), Adam Gordon (Fort Worth Symphony), Leigh Anne Hunsaker (Trumpet Professor, Hardin-Simmons University), Nicholas Althouse (DMA student, UNT) and Jason Dovel (DMA student, UNT).

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Hardin-Simmons School of Music

Source: Jason Dovel