Historical Trumpet Rosters for Major Symphony Orchestras

Athos · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 2:40 pm Post subject:

The 1991-92 dates for Bill as acting principal in Syracuse probably are right, and '92-93 he was probably still freelancing in Syracuse. I don't know for certain, but Abe might have been acting principal for two years... I just didn't show up on the scene until '92. Coble was associate in NY for a year or two, then decided (I think he made the decision) to return to Syracuse. I used to hear the rumors, but it's been a while since I thought about the upstate orchestras.

MrClean · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:11 pm Post subject:

Goodbye.

maccluer · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject:

Scott Natzke is the new principal trumpet player in Denver. Russell Campbell played the year before I was there, 2000-2001.

I can't quite remeber the name of the guy who was principal in St Louis before Susan. I do know he went on the play principal in the Bavarian Radio Symphony for many years. It's on the tip of my tongue. I'll ask Susan tomorrow.

By the way, I played principal in Baltimore for seven months of the 2000-2001 season.

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wiseone2 · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 5:12 pm Post subject:

Derek Reaban · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:19 am Post subject:

MrClean and Josh,

Thank you both for the details related to the Colorado Symphony! I have updated our list with these names and dates. The ITG Journal article for Manny Araujo in the reference section shows that he was principal trumpet through 1990. If the Denver Symphony closed the doors in 1989, did he remain as principal with the Colorado Symphony for one year after the reorganization before he retired?

Colorado Symphony Orchestra / Denver Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

2003-Current_______Scott Natzke
2001-2003_________Joshua MacCluer
2000-2001_________Russell Campbell
1990-2000_________???
Colorado Symphony Organized (1989 – 1990?)
Denver Symphony Bankruptcy (1989?)
1960-1990_________Manny Araujo
1958-1960_________Stephen Chenette
1957-1958_________Thomas Wohlwender
1956-1957_________???
1954-1956_________Richard Smith
19??-1954_________???

Web site: Colorado Symphony Orchestra

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Scott Natzke - Principal Trumpet
Dan Kuehn
Patrick Tillery – 3rd / Associate Principal

References:
Manny Araujo reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/pdf/9802sch2.pdf
Stephen Chenette reference: http://www.nyco.on.ca/conductor.htm
Thomas Wohlwender reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/journal/s95/9509Alme.pdf Page 18
Richard Smith reference: ITG Feb 1994
Alfred Weismann reference: http://www.musichouse.com/Howtobuy/htb-atrumpet.htm
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Winds / Symphony of the Southwest

Derek Reaban · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 8:20 am Post subject:

Josh,

Wilmer has been doing a great job getting us a point where we can ask additional questions for these lists, and finally get answers. Thanks for stepping up and highlighting your time with Baltimore! Looking forward to the Saint Louis information when you get a chance to post it (did Wilmer get it right again?!!)

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Principal Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

2001-Current_______Andrew Balio
2000-2001_________Eric M. Berlin (Acting Principal / Audition Finalist)
2000-2001_________James Thompson (Guest Principal)
2000-2001_________Joshua MacCluer (Acting Principal / Audition Finalist)
1969-2000_________Donald Tison
196?-1969_________Dominic DiGangi
195?-196?_________Marty Fishman
1949-1952_________Erich Traugott
1943-1949_________James Burke
1916-1948_________???

Web Site: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Andrew Balio – Principal Trumpet
Edward Hoffman – Assistant Principal
Gail Hutchens

References:
Eric M. Berlin reference: http://www.majesticbrass.com/quintet_ericres.htm
Donald Tison reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/pdf/9802sch2.pdf
Wilmer Wise reference: http://glass.peabody.jhu.edu/sas/people/wise/wise-oralhistory.html
Erich Traugott reference: http://www.truenorthbrass.com/greyNotes.php
James Burke reference: http://www.jfbcornet.com/biography.htm

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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona

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Derek Reaban · Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 3:15 pm Post subject:

I’m bringing this list forward from Page 2 and putting it into our format.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Principal Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

2002-Current_______Barton Woomert (Acting Principal)
1999-2002_________Andrew McCandless
1997-1999_________Barton Woomert (Acting Principal)
1983-1997_________Larry Weeks
1922-1983_________???

Web Site: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Barton Woomert - Acting Principal Trumpet
James Gardiner - Acting Associate Principal
James Spragg

References:
Andrew McCandless reference: http://www.tsomusicians.com/names/bios/trumpet.html#Barton%20Woomert
Larry Weeks reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/ntw1997/fn971022.html

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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona

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wiseone2 · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 8:19 pm Post subject:

wiseone2 · Posted: Sun May 16, 2004 8:22 pm Post subject:

Billy Hunter is the new second trumpet with the Baltimore Symphony.
Wilmer
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Derek Reaban · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:16 am Post subject:

Wilmer,

Looking back at earlier posts, I see that you had already mentioned Joe Umbrico being associated with the Toronto Symphony (his name was very familiar when I saw it again). Thanks for catching this. I have updated the list.

Toronto Symphony Orchestra
Principal Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

2002-Current_______Barton Woomert (Acting Principal)
1999-2002_________Andrew McCandless
1997-1999_________Barton Woomert (Acting Principal)
1983-1997_________Larry Weeks
19??-19??_________Joseph Umbrico
1922-19??_________???

Web Site: Toronto Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Barton Woomert - Acting Principal Trumpet
James Gardiner - Acting Associate Principal
James Spragg

References:
Andrew McCandless reference: http://www.tsomusicians.com/names/bios/trumpet.html#Barton%20Woomert
Larry Weeks reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/ntw1997/fn971022.html
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Winds / Symphony of the Southwest

Derek Reaban · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 8:17 am Post subject:

Wilmer,

Are there four trumpets in the section now, or has someone retired?

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Principal Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

2001-Current_______Andrew Balio
2000-2001_________Eric M. Berlin (Acting Principal / Audition Finalist)
2000-2001_________James Thompson (Guest Principal)
2000-2001_________Joshua MacCluer (Acting Principal / Audition Finalist)
1969-2000_________Donald Tison
196?-1969_________Dominic DiGangi
195?-196?_________Marty Fishman
1949-1952_________Erich Traugott
1943-1949_________James Burke
1916-1943_________???

Web Site: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Andrew Balio – Principal Trumpet
Edward Hoffman – Assistant Principal
Gail Hutchens

Note: For 2004 – 2005 Season, Billy Hunter is the new 2nd Trumpet and Rene Hernandez is the covering the 4th Trumpet chair.

References:
Eric M. Berlin reference: http://www.majesticbrass.com/quintet_ericres.htm
Donald Tison reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/pdf/9802sch2.pdf
Wilmer Wise reference: http://glass.peabody.jhu.edu/sas/people/wise/wise-oralhistory.html
Erich Traugott reference: http://www.truenorthbrass.com/greyNotes.php
James Burke reference: http://www.jfbcornet.com/biography.htm

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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona

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wiseone2 · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 10:47 am Post subject:

Langston Fitzgerald, the second trumpet player, was on a leave of absence. Fitz decided to take the position of Trumpet Professor at Penn State University, hence the opening.
Wilmer

maccluer · Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 1:59 pm Post subject:

Gail hasn't played in Baltimore fo a couple of years. Rene Hernandez, who has been playing 2nd for the last couple of years is the de facto 4th trumpet player next year. As is it stands now, they are not filling the 4th trumpet vacancy.

Wilmer is right, Chandler Goetting was the guy in St Louis.

snowman · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 3:38 am Post subject:

Hi Derek,

Jacques Lecompte was principal trumpet with orchestre symphonique de Montréal in the sixties under Zubin Mehta. I don't know the exact dates.

Yves

Derek Reaban · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 11:35 pm Post subject:

Josh and Wilmer,

Thanks for the input for the Saint Louis list. I have added Chandler Goetting just before Susan Slaughter. I haven’t been able to find any good online references for Chandler Goetting to verify exact dates, but I did find that he was included on the Young Concert Artists, Inc. list in 1963. I’m guessing this puts him in Saint Louis in the early to mid 1960s.

I have added a note to the Baltimore list about Rene Hernandez as 4th trumpet for next season. Thanks!

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

1973-Current_______Susan Slaughter
196?-1973_________Chandler Goetting
1946-196?_________???
1944-1946_________Seymour Rosenfeld
19??-1944_________Joseph Gustat
1920-19??_________???
1919-1920_________David Glickstein
1879-1919_________???

Web site: Saint Louis Symphony Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Susan Slaughter – Principal Trumpet
Thomas Drake - Assistant Principal
Joshua MacCluer
Gary Smith

References:
Seymour Rosenfeld Reference: From Page 5 of the May 1989 ITG Journal in the article by Kevin Eisensmith entitled “An Interview with Seymour Rosenfeld on the Occasion of His Retirement from the Philadelphia Orchestra”
Chandler Goetting reference: http://www.yca.org/Pages/alumni.html
David Glickstein reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/journal/d94/9412Thor.pdf
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Winds / Symphony of the Southwest

Derek Reaban · Posted: Tue May 18, 2004 11:36 pm Post subject:

Snowman (Yves),

Thank you for helping out with our lists! I have included Jacques Lecompte before James Ranti and shown him with the orchestra in the 1960s. I found a reference to Jacques Lecompte in an ITG Journal article with Guido Basso (May 1995, Page 69), and I believe that based on the article, Jacques Lecompte was principal in the orchestra in the 1950s as well.

Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal
Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

1995-Current_______Paul Merkelo
1994-1995_________Russell Devuyst (Acting Principal)
1993-1994_________Charles Daval (Acting Principal)
1991-1993_________Robert Earley (Acting Principal)
1976-1991_________James Thompson
196?-1976_________John Taber (Not certain about End Date)
196?-196?_________James Ranti
195?-196?_________Jacques Lecompte
1934-195?_________???

Web site: Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Paul Merkelo – Principal Trumpet
Russell Devuyst – Associate Principal
Jean-Luc Gagnon – 2nd Trumpet
Steven van Gulik

References:
Paul Merkelo reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/pdf/1999journal/9905ulri.pdf Page 35
Robert Earley reference: http://www.rowan.edu/fpa/music/our_assets/bio/earley.html
James Thompson reference: dates http://www.rochester.edu/Eastman/faculty/?id=139
James Ranti reference: http://www.brandonu.ca/Music/People/FacultyPages/EhnesA/default.htm and http://lists.shsu.edu/pipermail/finale/2003-December/055271.html
Jacques Lecompte reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/journal/m95/9505Laba.pdf
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Winds / Symphony of the Southwest

Derek Reaban · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

The Kansas City Symphony / Philharmonic keeps coming up in the reading that I have been doing, so I’ve added it to our list. Does anyone have a starting date for Gary Schutza Jr. or know if there was anyone between him and Richard Smith?

Kansas City Symphony / Kansas City Philharmonic
Principal Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

19??-Current_______Gary Schutza Jr.
1982-19??_________???
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra becomes Kansas City Symphony (1982)
1978-1982_________???
1969-1978_________Richard Smith
1964-1969_________Adel Sanchez
1962-1964_________Charles Schlueter
1960-1962_________Richard Smith
1952-1960_________???
1946-1952_________Richard Smith
1933-1946_________???

Web Site: Kansas City Symphony Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Gary Schutza - Principal Trumpet
Philip Clark - Associate Principal
Brian Rood

References:
Charles Schlueter reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/journal/d94/9412Thor.pdf
Richard Smith reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/journal/d94/9412Thor.pdf and February 1994 ITG Journal
Adel Sanchez reference: http://www.ayporchestras.org/adel-sanchez.html
Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra history reference: http://www.kclibrary.org/sc/scdescriptions/sc71.htm
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Winds / Symphony of the Southwest

Derek Reaban · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 11:00 pm Post subject:

Here’s a start for the Berlin Philharmonic. In the Horst Eichler reference (actually a bio for Bob Platt) it says that “a trumpet position with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra opened up and Bob auditioned again successfully (at age 43!) for the position”. Many places I have found references to Bob Platt being a Principal Trumpet with Berlin, but in an ITG interview with Bob Platt it’s very clear that he was interested in taking a section position, and the age situation worked out in his favor.

Berliner Philharmoniker
Principal Trumpet Players

Start-End________Name

2000-Current_______Tamás Velenczei
1973-Current_______Martin Kretzner
1974-1998_________Konradin Groth
19??-1974_________Fritz Wesenick
19??-19??_________Horst Eichler
1941-1945_________Adolf Scherbaum
1887-1941_________???

Web Site: Berlin Philharmonic Trumpet Players

Current roster for the 2003-2004 Season:
Tamás Velenczei – Principal Trumpet
Thomas Clamor
Georg Hilser
Martin Kretzer

References:
Tamás Velenczei reference: http://www.bmc.hu/velenczei/index2_en.htm
Konradin Groth and Martin Kretzner reference: http://www.trumpetguild.org/2000conference/bio/groth.htm and
http://www.trumpetguild.org/pdf/2001journal/0103iris.pdf
Adolf Scherbaum references: http://abel.hive.no/oj/musikk/trompet/interview/scherbaum/ and
http://www.asamnet.de/~bayerj/scherb/fachwelt/time.htm and
Horst Eichler reference: http://www.uwec.edu/brasscongress/trumpetconference/artists.html
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Winds / Symphony of the Southwest

Derek Reaban · Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 11:55 pm Post subject:

I checked a book out from the library called "Herbert von Karajan, A Life in Music" by Richard Osborne to see if there were any good references to trumpet players in the Berlin Philharmonic. There was one reference to Konradin Groth and the Brandenburg 2, but there was one picture that really made the book worth looking through.

The picture shows Herbert von Karajan sitting by his wife (Eliette) on an airplane while on a world tour with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1959. The caption says "Eliette plays the posthorn at 30,000 feet". A model and a trumpet player!

That was an interesting twist in this project that I hadn't expected to uncover. Does anyone know anything about her playing?
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Derek Reaban
Tempe, Arizona
Tempe Winds / Symphony of the Southwest

wiseone2 · Posted: Thu May 20, 2004 10:52 am Post subject:

Henry Nowak was first trumpet in Kansas City, he said, from 1956-62.
I will see Hank on Sunday at the Rhöne in NYC, I will get more information.
Wilmer