Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Trumpet Section

[Derek Reaban]

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
All Trumpet Players

(The Concertgebouw Orchestra nowadays has two equal principals and three equal tutti players)

Start-End________Name

2011-Current_______Giuliano Sommerhalder - Principal
2011-Current_______Alexandre Baty - Principal
2001-Current_______Bert Langenkamp
1984-Current_______Hans Alting
1979-2008_________Theo Wolters
1991-2010_________ Frits Damrow - Principal
1982-2010? _________ Peter Masseurs - Principal
1963-1990_________Klaas Kos - Principal trumpet/cornet
1961-1982_________Epke van der Valk - Fourth trumpet
1954-1980_________Henk Minderman - Third trumpet
1945-1984_________Freddy Grin - Trumpet/Principal cornet
1941-1982_________Willem Groot - Principal
1934-1972_________Marinus Komst - Principal
1920-1945_________D.M. Tonnis - Fifth trumpet, Second from 1934
1918-1947_________A.J. Radius - Fourth trumpet
1913-1955_________Joseph Sloghem - Third trumpet
1909-1934_________Dirk Speets - Principal
1904-1909_________H. Le Barbier - Principal
1904-1920?________P.G. Gielen - Third trumpet
1891-1925_________E. Kresse - Second trumpet
1888-1925_________K.W. Grader - Fourth trumpet
1888-1900_________J.B. Heuckeroth
1888-1904_________H.W. Hofmeester – Principal

Information provided by Emile Meuffels from the Reference Text: F. Grin - 100 jaar trompettisten van het Concertgebouworkest 1888 - 1988


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Current roster for the 2010-2011 Season:
Giuliano Sommerhalder - Principal
Alexandre Baty - Principal
Hans Alting
Bert Langenkamp
Wim Van Hasselt


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The list by Freddy Grin is unfortunately not complete. I did research for my biography of Marinus Komst. The list of all trumpet players of the Concertgebouw Orchestra is as follows:

- Jacobus Marinus Heuckeroth (1868 - ?) - trumpet 1888-1898

- Karel Wilhelmus Grader (1853 - 1934) - trumpet/cornet and 2nd violin 1888 - 1925

- Petrus Augustinus Nicolaas Froschhart (1835 - 1891) - principal trumpet 1888 - 1889, 3th trumpet 1890 - 1891

- Hendrik Willem Hofmeester (1858 - 1944) - principal trumpet 1889 - 1891 and 1898 - 1904

- Ernst Fabian (? - ?) - trumpet 1889 - 1890

- Emil Kresse (1856 - 1935) - principal trumpet 1891 - 1898, 2nd trumpet 1989 - 1905, principal trumpet 1905 - 1925

- Alexander Hendrickx (1867 - ?) - trumpet 1892

- Petrus Gerardus Gielen (1865 - 1913) - trumpet/cornet and 2nd violin 1892 - 1909

- Eugene Gobiert (1856 - 1924) - trumpet 1893 - 1898

- Henri Charles Le Barbier (1873 - 1938) - principal trumpet 1904 - 1905

- Otto Schubert (1881 - 1912) - principal trumpet 1905 - 1907

- Johannes Nicolaas Hooijmeijer (1876 -1948) - trumpet and 2nd violin 1905 - 1918

- Ewald Ditzl (1880 - after 1949) - principal trumpet 1907 - 1909

- Dirk Speets (1879 - 1951) - principal trumpet 1909 - 1934

- Joseph Sloghem (1890 - 1974) - 3rd trumpet 1913 - 1941 and 1945 - 1955

- Antonius Jacobus Radius (1886 - 1964) - 4th trumpet 1913 - 1947

- Derk Marten Tonnis (1886 - 1963), 2nd trumpet 1920 - 1945

- Marinus Johannes Komst (1908 -1997) - principal trumpet 1934 - 1972

- Willem Groot (1919- 2008) - co-principal and principal 1941 - 1982

- Freddy Grin (* 1925) - trumpet and principal cornet 1945 - 1984

- Henk Minderman (1923 - 2006) - trumpet 1945 - 1980

- Epke van der Valk (1933 - 2007) - trumpet 1961 - 1982

- Thomas Lisenbee (* 1938) - co-principal 1963

- Klaas Kos (*1939) - trumpet 1963 - 1972 and principal 1972 -2001

- Theo Wolters (*1955) - trumpet 1979 - 2008

- Peter Masseurs (* 1944) - principal trumpet 1982 - 2009

- Hans Alting (*1963) - trumpet 1984 - now

- Frits Damrow (* 1960) - trumpet and principal 1989 -2010

- Bert Langenkamp (* 1977) - trumpet 2002 - now

- Wim Van Hasselt (* 1977) - trumpet 2009 - 2014

- Alexandre Baty (* 1983) - principal trumpet 2010 - 2012

- Giuliano Somerhalder (* 1985) - principal trumpet 2011 - 2013

- Omar Tomasoni (* 1984) - principal trumpet 2013 - now

- Jacco Groenendijk (* 1973) - trumpet 2015 - now

- Miroslav Petkov (* 1989) - principal trumpet 2016 - now