Performing was predestined for Tom "TomCat Trumpet" Burke. Growing up around musicians and the touring lifestyle as the son of a Broadway musician, Burke spent his early years moving around the ...

A small step in the evolution of the trumpet. “Ear Trumpet 1”. Photo by Eknath Gomphotherium, used with permission. We’re back with a new episode! Whooo! How did the trumpet morph from a simple horn ...

Suresh Singaratnam is a trumpeter of uncommon breadth - unique not only for the small crowd he inhabits as a virtuoso of both classical and jazz styles but also for the continuity and clarity of his ...

Brass players used to be easy to spot. You'd just look out for the biggest, burliest blokes propping up the concert hall bar. But 25-year-old trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth is breaking the mould. Later ...

As she takes over the Cheltenham Music Festival, star trumpeter Alison Balsom tells Ivan Hewett why she’s on a mission "Why do we call this music ‘classical’? It’s because it has stood the test of ...

Both players are rising stars of the classical music scene – Akugbo will make his Proms solo debut later this year with the Haydn Trumpet Concerto while the multi award-winning Harper is devoting ...

You know it’s a sign of old age when the trumpet players just keep getting younger. Tine Thing Helseth, Norway’s first lady of the trumpet, remembers excitedly how “when I was a kid I was a crazy ...