Bruce Dickey

(USA/Italy)

Damir Bačikin
(Serbia/Germany)

Folkwang chamber orchestra
(Germany)

Hana Blažíková
(Czech Republic)

John Wallace
(Scotland)

John Wallace was born in Fife, Scotland, in 1949 into a brass band family. During his trumpet-playing career he held positions with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, and London Sinfonietta, as well as forming The Wallace Collection brass ensemble. He recorded all of the major trumpet solo works and premiered new concertos by Malcolm Arnold, Maxwell Davies, Macmillan, Muldowney, Souster, Schuller and Saxton amongst many others. From 2002-14 he was Principal of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, after which he resumed his performing career.  In 2011 he was awarded a CBE for services to Dance, Drama and Music.

Laura Vukobratović (Yugoslavia/Germany)

Born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, Laura Vukobratović began her training as a trumpeter with Prof. Kovacs Kalman at the conservatory in her hometown. From 1995 to 2001, she was in the master class of Professor Reinhold Friedrich at the Musikhochschule Karlsruhe. At the age of 18, Laura Vukobratović became principal trumpet at the Serbian National Theater in Novi Sad. In 1994, she received a lecturer position at the local Academy of Music. Twice she won the “National Competition of Young Talents” in her home country before being awarded the German DAAD Prize in 1999.

Maite Hontelé
(Netherlands)

Maite Hontelé is a Dutch trumpeter specializing in Latin and jazz trumpet. She got in touch with salsa through her father’s record collection.  At the age of 9 Hontelé learned to play the trumpet in the harmony orchestra of the village Haaften. After graduary school in Gorinchem doing exam including music, she studied at the Rotterdam Conservatory of Music.

Mazen Kerbaj
(Lebanon)

Mazen Kerbajis a Lebanese comics author, visual artist, and musician born in Beirut in 1975. He also works on selective illustration and design projects and has taught at the American University of Beirut. Kerbaj is the author of more than 15 books, and his short stories and drawings have been published in anthologies, newspapers, and magazines. His work has been translated into more than ten languages in various local and international publications.

Peter Evans
(USA)

Peter Evansis a trumpet player and composer based in New York City since 2003.   Evans is part of a broad, hybridized scene of musical experimentation and his work cuts across a wide range of modern musical practices and traditions.  Peter is committed to the simultaneously self-determining and collaborative nature of musical improvisation as a compositional tool, and works with an ever-expanding group of musicians and composers in the creation of new music.

Roman Rindberger
(Austria)

Roman Rindberger studied in Salzburg, Mainz, Basel and Karlsruhe and was a scholarship holder with the Berlin Philharmonic and Zurich Opera. His teachers include Hans Gansch, Reinhold Friedrich, Malte Burba, Tamas Velenczei, Laurent Tinguely, Bill Nulty and Klaus Schuhwerk.
He was trumpet player in the Munich State Opera and solo trumpet player in the Hessian State Opera Wiesbaden. He has been a member of the group Mnozil Brass since 2004.

Reinhold Friedrich
(Germany)

Since his success at the ARD International Music Competition in 1986 Reinhold Friedrich has been a prolific performer on major stages around the world such as the Musikverein in Vienna, the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and the Berlin Philharmonie. As a soloist, Reinhold Friedrich performes both on modern and historic keyed trumpet with renowned ensembles such as the Bamberger and Wiener Symphoniker, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Berliner Barock Solisten and the Cappella Andrea Barca; conducted amongst others by Sir András Schiff, Reinhard Goebel, Sir Neville Marriner, Christopher Hogwood, Semyon Bychkov, Michael Gielen, Adam Fischer and Vladimir Fedossejev.

Ryan Carniaux
(USA/Germany)

Born in New York City in 1980, Ryan Carniaux studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston with Tiger Okoshi and Greg Hopkins, among others. Carniaux has released six records as a leader or co-leader, and has been featured on over 50 productions as a sideman or special guest. Carniaux tours regularly with European and American musicians, most recently with drummer Bob Moses, the trio Constellations with Mark Egan and Karl Latham, in the Wolfgang Lackerschmid Connection and the Globe Unity Orchestra, among others. Today he lives in Cologne, since 2013 he is professor for trumpet, ensemble, and jazz aural training at the Folkwang University of the Arts.

The Monochrome Project
(Germany)

Inspired by his collaboration with the American composer La Monte Young, Marco Blaauw founded a trumpet ensemble in 2015 to explore the enormous variability of trumpet sounds and playing techniques within the framework of a wide variety of projects and through the development of diverse compositions.

Tyler Ho Bynum
(USA)