* 1958 in Weingarten/Baden; trumpeter and university teacher; studied in Karlsruhe with Edward H. Tarr; winner of the ARD-Musikwettbewerb in 1986; professor of trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, in addition honorary professorships at the Royal Academy of Music London, the Sibelius Academy Helsinki, in Hiroshima and at the Escuela Superior de Musica Reina Sofia Madrid. He made his debut in 1982 at the Berliner Festwochen with Luciano Berio’s “Sequenza X”; in 1994 he played Joseph Haydn’s trumpet concerto on the keyed trumpet in the Wiener Musikverein. Since its founding in 2003 he has been permanent principal trumpet of the Luzern Festival Orchestra under Claudio Abbado and artistic director of the Luzern Festival Brass Ensemble. His repertoire includes “Nobody knows the trouble I see” by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. On the album Hans Werner Henze and the Requiem, released by Cybele Records in 2010, he plays trumpet.
Reinhold Friedrich
Trumpet
