STUDY AND AWARDS

1976 Mensa Society, John Gaitskell Award

1976 Diploma of Performing Arts, with distinction, The Victorian College of the Arts (Mervyn Simpson)

1976 Winner, Victorian State A.B.C. Instrumentalist and Vocalist Solo Competition.

1977 Winston Churchill Fellowship, Schola Cantorum Basel (Dr Edward H Tarr)

1972 Australian Champion of Champions Cornet Soloist – Bruce Armstrong – cornet teacher


 

 


ORCHESTRAS, CHAMBER ORCHESTRAS, CHAMBER ENSEMBLES

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Australian Chamber Orchestra

Sydney Symphony Orchestra

Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Tonhalle Opernhausorchester Zurich

Suisse Romande Radio Orchestra (Geneva)

Stadtorchester Winterthur

Elizabethan Theater Trust Orchestra
( Australia )

The Victorian Opera Orchestra

Canberra Symphony Orchestra

Canberra Brass Quintet

The Australia Ensemble

Konzertverein St Gallen (Switzerland)

Heidelberger Kammerorchester

WDR Kammerorchester (Cologne)

Concentus Tubarum (Winterthur)

Zurich Brass Virtuosi (Brass Quintet)

Philharmonic Brass Quintet Luzern

Radiosinfonieorchestra Lugano (Switzerland)

Luzerner Theaterorchester (Luzern)

Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchester

Göttinger Sinfonieorchester

Heilbronner Kammerorchester

Corona Trumpet Virtuosi (International)

Opera Nova (Zurich)


 

 


LECTURING POSITIONS

Canberra Institute of the Arts (Canberra, Australien)

Musikhochschule Winterthur Zurich (Switzerland)

Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie (Detmold)

Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie (Detmold, Germany), Guest Professor (6 months)

Seit 1998, Professor, Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Cologne


 

 


SOLOIST (MODERN)

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Australian Chamber Orchestra

Canberra Symphony Orchestra

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

The Hunter Orchestra (Australia)

Zürcher Kammerorchester

Stadtorchester Winterthur

Baseler Radiosinfonieorchester

Euro-Kammerorchestra Aachen

Altius Brass Ensemble Calgary (Canada)

Freiburger Barock-Solisten (Freiburg/Breisgau)

Konzertverein St Gallen (Switzerland)


 

 


SOLOIST AND CHAMBER MUSICIAN (BAROQUE)

Capella Corelli (Melbourne)

Brandenburg Orchestra (Sydney)

L´Orfeo Barockorchester (Munich)

Bell´Arte Salzburg (Germany)

Consortium Musicum (Holland)

Collegium Cartusianum (Cologne)

La Stravaganza (Cologne)

Deutsche Handel Solisten (Karlsruhe)

Ad Mosam (Holland),

Das Neue Orchester (Cologne)

Caterva Musica (Germany)

L’Arpa Festante (Munich)

Freisinger Hofmusik (Freising)

Gruppe Alte Musik (Munich)

La Rejouissance (Munich)

Niederaltaich Scholaren (Germany)

Ars Antigua (Chicago)

Hildebrandische Hoboisten Compagnie (Hamburg)

Camerata Aeterna (Bratislava, Slovaki)

Zürcher Trompetenensemble (Zurich)

Theatro Lirico (Bremen)

Ensemble Agimont (Maastricht)


 

 


RECORDINGS

“Neue Musik für Blechbläser und Orgel” Herbert Nobis (Aurea Vox)

“Tromba Triumphans” Bell´Arte Salzburg (Winter & Winter)

“Baroque Trumpet and Strings” (Move)

“In dulci Jubilo” Rudolf Lutz- Orgel (Guild Music)

“Resonet in laudibus” (Sony)

“Consortium Musicum” (Consortium Musicum)

Fiocco’s “Missa Solemnis” (Louis Devos- Erato)

Charpentier’s “Te Deum” (Louis Devos-Erato)

“Dagh” Sitsky at Sixty (Canberra Institute of the Arts)

“Musik for the Royal Fireworks” La Stravaganza Cologne (Denon)

Bach’s “Weihnachtsoratorium” Collegium Cartusianum (Deutsche Welle Fernseh-Cologne)

“A Musical Service” Hildebrandische Hoboisten Compagnie (Musicaphon)

Bach’s “Weihnachtsoratorium” Regensburger Domspatzen (DG)

Trumpet and Organ, August Humer- Orge l(Extempore)

Bach’s Kantate BWV 27, Gustav Leonhard (Sony Classical)

Buxtehude ( Collegium Ad Mosam)

“The Goldberg Variations” Uri Caine (Winter & Winter Germany)


 

 


PUBLISHED WORKS

(All editions from Martin Schmid Musikverlag, Germany)

“Marches & Dances” for 3 or 4 Trumpets (with optional timpani) (Händel)

“12 Dances for 4 Trumpets” (or 3 trumpets and timpani) (Boismortier)

“Drei Märsche von Madamoiselle Hjortzbergs Solo e Balletten” for 4 Trumpets & Timpani

“Salzburger Aufzüge” for 4 Trumpets with optional Timpani (Mösel)

“Premier Air des Combattants & Second Air from Amadis” for 4 Trumpets & Timpani (Lully)

”Pieces from Mr Handel’s Water Music” for 4 Trumpets (Händel)

“Hänsel & Gretel” for 5 Trumpets “Abends, wenn ich schlafen gehe” (Engelbert Humperdinck)

“An English Christmas Carol Medley” for 5 Trumpets (Traditional)

“A German Christmas Carol Medley” for 5 Trumpets (Traditional)

“The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba” for 6 Trumpets (Händel)

“Fugue in D Major from The Well-Tempered Clavier” for 6 Trumpets (Bach)

“Musick for the Royal Fireworks” for 8 Trumpets & optional Timpani (Händel)

“Dona nobis pacem” Meditation in C for 2 Trumpets & Organ (Anna Freeman)

“Dona nobis pacem” Meditation in D for 2 Trumpets & Organ (Anna Freeman)

“Dona nobis pacem” Meditation in B flat for 2 Trumpets & Organ (Anna Freeman)

“Schlacht Hymne from Wagner’s Opera Rienzi” for 4 Trumpets & 4 Trombones (optional piccolo trumpet, tuba and percussion) (Wagner)

“Musical & Technical Etudes for the Modern Trumpet” based on works of J.S. Bach (Anna Freeman)

“Brass Basics Book One” A Practical & Theoretical Guide to Trumpet Playing (Anna Freeman)

“Brass Basics Book Two” A Practical & Theoretical Guide to Trumpet Playing (Anna Freeman)

“A Guide to Playing Early Music on the Natural Trumpet” (Anna Freeman)

“Gloria ad modem tubae” for 2 Soprano Voices & 2 Trumpets (Dufay)

“Offertorium in Es” for Bass or Alto Voice and Trumpet with Piano (Panny)

“The 5th Song, with a Trumpet” for Soprano and Trumpet in C or B flat with Bc. (Purcell)

“Variation on Bach’s Arioso” for Trumpet and Piano (Anna Freeman)

“Concerto” for Trumpet, 3 Oboes and 2 Bassoons (Anon)

“Cornet Method” (Carlo Minasi)

“Meditation” for Natural Trumpet or Modern Trumpet and Organ

“Meditation” for 6 Natural Trumpets, Horns or Alphorns

“Salzburger Aufzüge” for 4 Trumpets and optional Timpani

“Technical and Musical Studies for the Baroque Trumpet”

“Beyond Brass Basics”

“Anonym, 24 Trumpet Duets from Modena”


 

 


LECTURE / DEMONSTRATION, RECITALS, COURSES AND MASTERCLASSES

The Juilliard School of Music (New York, USA)

Hannover Hochschule (Germany)

Nordwestdeutsche Musikakademie (Detmold, Germany)

Europäische Musikakademie (Bonn, Germany)

Trossingen Hochschule (Germany)

International Trumpet Academy Bremen (Germany)

Bruckner Konservatorium (Linz)

Tage der Alten Musik, Schloss Weinberg (Austria)

Kulturkreis Arosa (Switzerland)

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA)

Northwestern University (Chicago, USA)

Grand Valley State University (Grand Rapids, USA)

Victoria University (Wellington, New Zealand)

Mount Royal College Calgary (Canada)

University of Calgary (Canada)

The University of Lethbridge (Canada)

Historic Brass Society (Amherst, USA)

The University of Western Australia (Perth)

Grand Rapids State University (USA)