BBC Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Section

[Derek Reaban]

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

1980-Current_______William Houghton – Principal Trumpet
1983-Current_______Gareth Bimson – Co-Principal Trumpet
1982-Current_______Andrew Hendrie – Sub-Principal Trumpet
1984-Current_______Paul Cosh – Sub-Principal Trumpet
1992-Current_______Martin Hurrell – Principal Cornet
1967-1971_________Philip Jones
1972-1980_________John Wilbraham
1972-1986_________Iaan Wilson
1974-1991_________Norman Burgess
1945-1946_________Malcolm Arnold
1935-1974_________William Overton
1950-1971_________Wesley Woodage
1952-1979_________Ian Mackintosh
1963-198?_________Richard Walton
1929-1953_________Ernest Hall
1930-1945_________Eric Pritchard
1930-1952_________Jack Mackintosh
1930-1950_________Bertie Barr
1930-1947_________Horace Hamilton

Web Site: BBC Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2005-2006 Season:
William Houghton – Principal Trumpet
Gareth Bimson – Co-Principal Trumpet
Andrew Hendrie – Sub-Principal Trumpet
Paul Cosh – Sub-Principal Trumpet
Martin Hurrell – Principal Cornet


Reference for this information is the September 1995 ITG Journal article entitled "The BBC Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Section", by Martin Hurrell.

Please note that this is slightly different from the previous lists in that it includes all of the players that have been associated with this orchestra since it’s inception (October 22, 1930).


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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona

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[Derek Reaban]

Online Articles about the BBC Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Players:

The British Broadcasting Corporation Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Section
by Martin Hurrell (ITG Journal September 1995)

The London Trumpet Sound
by Murray Greig (ITG Journal June 2002)


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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona

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[Derek Reaban]

Quotes about BBC Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Players:

I found these marvelous quotes about Ernest Hall (1890 – 1984) in an article by Tom Aitken in Issue 49 (1985) of the Brass Bulletin, page 89.

Another pupil, Bram Gay, Orchestra Director at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, remembers his indefatigable common sense. “It’s not a new trumpet you need, just more long notes on this one!”

As a player, Bram wrote in “Sounding Brass”, he had an unusual embouchure, “a rather narrow but deep mouthpiece set well into a tightly-drawn smile… The truly extraordinary thing about his playing was the consistent quality of his sound. Whatever the register, whatever the dynamic, the sound itself never varied. Dynamically, even in 1953, he commanded a fortissimo that was nearly unbearable in a sizeable room, but the tone never seemed to distort. It was a remarkable beautiful sound in itself, somehow all ‘centre’ with no rough edges at all, and a peculiar sweet intensity which gave one the impression that every nook and cranny of the tube was producing sound. His attack, when roused, amounted almost to physical assault. Yet at the other end of the scale the ultimate piano never failed to speak, bright and clear. His range? Well, I have heard a fine F from him, out of practice too. Notes below bottom C, he said, were not his business. He made a rather good show of the prelude to “Carmen”, though…”


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