Welcome to La Tromba Music!
In the name of all of the musicians, technicians and associated persons working for and with La Tromba Music Productions I wish to welcome you to our website!
I am very happy to be able to present to you our wide range of goods and services pertaining to the trumpet and its music.
La Tromba Music Productions is the natural consequence of a life- time which since 1965 has been filled with love and dedication to music and most especially to music for the trumpet.
2010 is especially important for me personally, since it marks my 40th season of University/College level teaching career!
In 1970, while still living and attending High School in my home city of Regina, Saskatchewan Canada I was privileged to be appointed to a position in both the Regina Symphony and (later that same year) honoured with a Trumpet and Brass Ensemble teaching assignment as the first-assistant to Prof. Dr. Mel Carey (originally of Berkley California U.S.A.), then Horn Professor and Head of the Brass Department of the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus.
My early interest in both teaching and performing, especially in Chamber Ensembles has continued to this day through both my earlier orchestral Solo-Trumpet positions: including those the Canadian Chamber Orchestra (1976/77), in both the German Opera, Düsseldorf (1978/79) and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (1979/83) parallel to my present teaching position as "Artist in Residenz" at the Conservatory of Music / Bavarian State Musical University in Würzburg, Germany where I have held a tenured lecturing position since 1982.
Decades of Guest- Professorships at "higher" Music Institutions in the U.S. A., Russia, Europe and through the world and have followed.
Since arriving in Europe in 1978 it has as well been my great fortune to have been asked to be an active member and/or leader of several fine Chamber Music ensembles including the German Brass (1979-1987) the Munich Brass (since 1983), the and European Baroque Ensemble (since 1987) and the German Chamber Soloists (since 1991) and since 1999 the Prince Bishop of Würzburg's Wind Ensemble (Fürstbischöfliches Bläserensemble zu Würzburg).
It is through these and many other musical constellations and the wide range of professional performance experiences gained through out the world that has enabled me to bring to the firm La Tromba Music Productions and consequentially to you, a broad range of goods and services pertaining specifically to the Trumpet and its music.
In the La Tromba Musici section of this web-site you may find more complete information regarding our various musical constellations: artistic groupings ranging from the Baroque (on both Period and Modern Instruments) through the Classic, Romantic, "Classical"- Modern, to the Modern Jazz and Popular Music epochs, performing in a broad range of constellations: Duos, Trios, Quartets and Quintets, Mixed Instrumental Chamber Ensembles, small and large Brass Ensembles, a full 18 person Jazz Big- Band and lastly a 25 member Classical Chamber Orchestra!
Many of our La Tromba Music constellations can be heard through various international radio and television productions as well as on La Tromba produced CDs, available through this web-site.
I take special pride in the newest La Tromba produced CD: Music for Trumpet and Guitar - "Richard Carson Steuart and Friends" (a broad spectrum collection of recordings in the Trumpet and Guitar genre done here in Europe starting as far back as 1987) released through the International Trumpet Guild in March 2010. This most recent release is at present exclusively available through the ITG at:
http://www.trumpetguild.org/products/recordings/index.htm
Selected La Tromba Ensembles and Artists are available for Concert bookings as well as for Master classes and Workshops by contacting La Tromba Music at "Hof NeuLobenburg", Hofstrasse 10, 97070 Würzburg, Germany. Telephone/Fax: ++49 (0) 931 35 36 574.
In the sections Methodology & European Brass Academy we wish to inform you about both past, current and developing teaching methods as well as give you information about our own EBA (European Brass Academy) Master Classes and Workshops. These include biographies regarding our internationally acclaimed Guest-Professors (past, present and future), all of whom are both successful performers and teachers and this of not only of the trumpet but all of the respective instruments (both the Historical and Modern) of the brass family. Each of our EBA Professor/Lecturers are truly Masters in their own right, only in the Classical Music idiom but in a the various kinds of Music from Baroque to Brass Band, Blues to Big- Band, Opera and Symphony to Contemporary Modern Jazz and Pop as well as many of the newly developing musical idioms.
Information about our exclusive line of Premium Quality "Hand Made" La Tromba Professional-Model trumpets, cornets and flugelhorns as well as our completely new (2008/09) series of affordably priced, and yet high quality La Thrombi Student-Model trumpets, cornets and fluegelhorns can be found under the heading: Trumpets.
We also wish to present our large and ever expanding La Tromba Mouthpiece Assortment, all produced in Germany on state of the art CNC computer controlled lathes!!! and in a wide range of models made for the Baroque/Natural Trumpet, over the Classical Trumpet (for "Period Instruments" from the late 18th to mid 19th Century) , the Romantic Cornet and Low Eb/E/ F Trumpet (for "Period Instruments" from mid-19th up to the early 20th century) as well as mouthpieces for all models of Modern Piston- Valve Trumpets, Cornets and Flugelhorns built (specifically) for those of the French, English, Asiatic (Japanese/ Chinese) and American (both North and South) designs, respectively.
We also have developed three models for the Romantic and Modern Rotary-Valve (traditional German/Austrian/Czech) Trumpets (as our R, RA and RG models) and a special model specifically for the Rotary-Valve Flugelhorns of traditional Austrian, German and Czech design.
Our various High Register Classical Piccolo-Trumpet, Big-Band and special HJ ("High-Jazz") Lead-Trumpet models may be of interest to "specialist" performers of both the high Classical and JAZZ persuasions. All these you may find all these under the general heading: Mouthpieces.
An ever increasing selection of La Tromba Printed Music and both re-mastered and all new La Tromba Produced Solo-Trumpet and Ensemble CDs , ranging from the Baroque over the Classic and the Romantic to the Modern-Classical music Idioms and even Main- Stream Contemporary Jazz and most especially our all new Spanish-Blue series are to be found under: CDs and Music.
I hope you enjoy our website and please feel free to write if you have any questions!
Sincerely yours,
Richard Carson Steuart
for
La Tromba Music Productions,
Germany