Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra Player Bios

[Derek Reaban]

David Washburn



M.M. New England Conservatory of Music

David Washburn presently holds the position of principal trumpet with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Pasadena Pops Orchestra and the California Philharmonic and is a member of the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra.

He is active in the recording studios, having numerous motion picture soundtracks to his credit. Some of the most recent recordings include principal trumpet on A Beautiful Mind, Windtalkers, The Grinch, The Perfect Storm, Titanic, Deep Impact, Ransom, Mighty Joe Young and Bicentennial Man.

Washburn is a member of the faculty at Chapman University, California State University Northridge, Biola University and Idyllwild School of Performing Arts. He has also served as principal trumpet and soloist with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra and has held teaching positions at Redlands University and the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

Washburn received his Masters of Music, with distinction, from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and his Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California School of Music. His trumpet instructors have included Rob Roy McGregor, Robert Nagel, John Clyman and Joan LaRue.

Washburn has been featured as soloist with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, San Diego Chamber Orchestra, SummerFest La Jolla, University of California Irvine Symphony, South Bay Chamber Orchestra, Glendale Symphony, Bach Camerata, California Philharmonic, Pasadena Pops Orchestra and the Burbank Symphony. This season Washburn will be featured with Jeff Kahane and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra performing Bach's Cantata #51 and the Brandenburg Concerto #2 with the San Diego Chamber Orchestra.

David has also performed Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat and Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #2 with Esa-Pekka Salonen at SummerFest La Jolla.

Player bio taken from University of California, Irvine Department of Music from 2006.
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Symphony of the Southwest

[Derek Reaban]

Henry Nowak

Henry Nowak was Solo Principal Trumpet of The Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra September 1957 throught 1962 April.

I resigned to go on tour to the Soviet Union as first trumpet with Robert Shaw Choral and Orchestra fall of 62. My first son was born in Kansas City October of 1958 my second October as Principal as I remember well her becoming pregnant in my first season as Principal.

After a four years of freelancing in New York City, where I played the last couple of concerts of the Symphony of the Air, Toscanni's former NBC Orchestra, I went to work for Pablo Casals in Puerto Rico as Solo Principal of Orchesta Sinfonica de Puerto Rico, Casals Festival and Conservatorio de Musica, all part of Festival Casals Inc.

Just prior to that time I also became Solo Principal Trumpet of the Mozart Festival Orchestra at Lincoln Center for the first three seasons of what was re-named the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra. I would perform at the Marlboro Music Festival in the earlier part of these three summers. 1965 66 67 I believe.

In 1966 having recorded as Solo First Trumpet the Bach Orchestral Suites with Casals conducting for Columbia records, I began performing the whole summers at Marlboro and recorded under Casals most of the Beethoven symphonies, and works of Brahms, Mendelssohn, etc.

In 1970-71 season I took a sabbatical and was Solo Principal Trumpet of the Zagrebacka Philharonic, Zagreb, Yugoslavia, after previously doing a European tour with it. While in Zagreb, I recorded the Brandenburg Concerto with Solisti di Zagreb.

After performing for Casal's funeral I flew to Europe with a lifetime contract with the RAI TV-Radio Orchestra Sinfonica, Rome, Italy on New Year's Day 1973 and stayed for four seasons playing under most of the most prestigious world class conductors of that era. Bernstein, Maazel, Gulinni, Muti, Bohm.

I will finish this tomorrow - have to stop now, but was also Solo Principal of the Hong Kong Philharmonic in 1984.
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Symphony of the Southwest

[Derek Reaban]

Stanley Friedman

Friedman enjoys a dual career as a composer and trumpeter. Formerly principal trumpet with the New Zealand Symphony, Hong Kong Philharmonic, and Israel Philharmonic, Friedman is featured on the CD The Lyric Trumpet (Ode Records, New Zealand). His solo trumpet works include Solus, La Pittura, Trumpet Sonata, Laude, and Concerto in C. Friedman is a three-time winner of the ITG Composition Contest. He currently is working on a final draft of a companion/guide to the James Stamp trumpet method.


Player Bio taken from the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) web site, December 1998.
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Symphony of the Southwest

[Derek Reaban]

David Gauger II



David Gauger II, a native of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, is conductor of the Moody Symphonic Band and Coordinator of Instrumental Instruction at Moody Bible Institute. He holds a Bachelor of Music from Wheaton College and a Master of Music from Northwestern University. His major trumpet teachers have included Vincent Cichowicz, Charles Geyer, and William Scarlett, all of the Chicago Symphony.

Since late 1999, Mr. Gauger has played extra and substitute trumpet regularly with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra both at Symphony Center and Ravinia, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony. He has performed with the CSO under such conductors as Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Christoph Eschenbach, David Robertson, William Eddins and Marvin Hamlisch. Recently he went on tour with the CSO performing in Carnegie Hall in New York.

From 1983 to 1994, he was Principal Trumpet of the Tulsa Philharmonic and from 1980 to 1983 Principal Trumpet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, touring with that group to Singapore, Bangkok, and Osaka. He was a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival orchestra during the summers of 1983 to 1990, and has played extra trumpet with the Oklahoma Symphony and substitute Principal with the Saint Louis Symphony on several occasions. His solo and recording experiences have been quite varied and extensive with the above organizations as well. Mr. Gauger is currently Assistant Principal Trumpet of the Elgin Symphony Orchestra performing with this group about a dozen times a year.

He joined the Moody faculty in 1994, and is Artist/Professor of Sacred Music. In addition to his duties with the band, he teaches music technology, instrumental conducting, applied trumpet and coaches small ensembles.


Player bio taken from Moody Bible Institute – Sacred Music web site from 2006.
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Symphony of the Southwest

[Derek Reaban]

Kevin Rosenberry

Kevin Rosenberry was the Principal Trumpet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979-1980. He is a member of the Lehigh Valley Chamber Orchestra and is the leader of the Mirandola Fanfare Trumpets.
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Symphony of the Southwest

[Derek Reaban]

Lorraine Cohen

Lorraine Cohen was the Principal Trumpet of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra from 1977-1979 and Co-Principal Trumpet of the Israel Philharmaonic from 1979-1980 under the direction of Zubin Mehta. She was a student of Gil Johnson at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1973-1976.

She is the founder and leader of The New York Brass Trio, Principal Trumpet of The Bronx Arts Ensemble, The Queens Symphony and The Philip Glass Ensemble, The Westchester Philharmonic, The American Symphony, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Long Island Philharmonic etc. and has played trumpet on thousands of Broadway shows, appeared as soloist on The Maury Povich Show, performed hundreds of sound tracks for movies and TV (Most recently, Nova Science Now and Secret Window).

Player bio taken from the article Gilbert Johnson – Artist and Teacher (ITG Journal May 1999) by David Champouillon and confirmed by Lorraine Cohen (Jan 2006).
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Symphony of the Southwest

[Derek Reaban]

Glenn Fischthal



Born in Shell Lake, Wisconsin, and raised in New York, Glenn Fischthal joined the San Francisco Symphony as Principal Trumpet in 1980. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Cleveland Institute of Music in 1970 studying with Bernard Adelstein, of the Cleveland Orchestra, and he continued with graduate work at the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. His other teachers included Thomas Stevens of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Frank Kaderabek of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and Robert Nagel of the New York Brass Quintet.

Mr. Fischthal's orchestral career began in 1970 while he was still a student. He was called in to substitute for the Cleveland Orchestra, and he was promptly asked to join the musicians on a tour of the Far East where he performed under George Szell and Pierre Boulez. In subsequent years, he played with the San Antonio Symphony, the National Ballet of Canada Orchestra, the Hong Kong Philharmonic, and the Kansas City Philharmonic. In 1976, he became Principal Trumpet of the Israel Philharmonic, where he played extensively under Zubin Mehta and Leonard Bernstein and was featured on several occasions in the Haydn and Hummel Trumpet Concertos. During the summer of 1979, he traveled with the Israel Philharmonic throughout Europe. He left the orchestra at the end of the tour to assume the position of Principal Trumpet with the San Diego Symphony.

With the San Francisco Symphony, he was first featured in the Orchestra's 1981 and 1984 Mostly Mozart Festivals in solo works of Haydn and Torelli. Throughout his career with the Symphony, he has also been featured in works by J.S. Bach, Adams, Haydn, and Hummel. In 1984, he rejoined the Israel Philharmonic on an international tour to Israel, Australia, and California, and again in 1991 when the Philharmonic toured the United States. Mr. Fischthal has also performed at the summer music festivals at the Grand Tetons and the Santa Fe Opera. He has recorded for Deutche Grammophon, London, CBS Masterworks, Tel Arc, Nonesuch, and the Philips labels.

Mr. Fischthal currently resides in San Francisco and enjoys golf, billiards, alpine skiing, and spending time with his two wolf-huskies.


Player Bio taken from the San Francisco Symphony web site for the 2004-2005 season.
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Symphonic Wind Ensemble / Symphony of the Southwest