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CONTEMPORARY MUSIC FOR TRUMPET

Contemporary trumpet music, encompassing diverse modern trumpet compositions and new music for trumpet. It highlights avant-garde and experimental trumpet pieces, showcasing innovative scores and contemporary trumpet solos, including works by Lior Navok.

Contemporary Music for Trumpet

contemporary trumpet repertoire

CHAMBER MUSIC FOR TRUMPET


Paper Tigers
for brass trio
9' 30" | trumpet, horn and trombone
 

Gitz & Spitz Suite
for brass quintet
14' | trumpets (2), French horn, trombone, tuba
 

After a Tango
for chamber ensemble
16' | ​recorders (3), clarinet, trumpet, trombone, guitar, percussion, violin, double bass​
 

Desperado Stoplight
for brass sextet
7'30" | 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 trombones
 

This section explores chamber music featuring trumpet, encompassing diverse trumpet ensemble pieces and broader brass chamber music. It highlights varied repertoire, from trumpet and strings to chamber music concerts with trumpet, including works by Lior Navok.

STAGE MUSIC WITH TRUMPET


Gitz & Spitz 

for actor and chamber ensemble

50' | actor; clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon; horn; trumpet; trombone, tuba and percussion (1) 

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Sheet Music for Trumpet:

List of Key 20th–21st Century Trumpet Repertoire

  • ​Mark Applebaum – Aphasia – trumpet and electronics – 2010

  • Alexander Arutunian – Trumpet Concerto – trumpet and orchestra – 1950

  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza X – trumpet and piano (used as a resonator) – 1984

  • Luciano Berio – Sequenza X – solo trumpet – 1984

  • Lauren Bernofsky – Fantasia – solo trumpet – 2000

  • Eugène Bozza – Rustiques – trumpet and piano – 1936

  • Elliott Carter – Retracing II – solo trumpet – 2009

  • Jean-Michel Damase – Trois Prières Sans Paroles – trumpet and piano – 1990

  • Peter Maxwell Davies – Sonata for Trumpet and Piano – trumpet and piano – 1980

  • Eric Ewazen – Sonata for Trumpet and Piano – trumpet and piano – 1995

  • Fisher Tull – Eight Profiles – solo trumpet – 1966

  • George Enescu – Légende – trumpet and piano – 1906

  • Jonathan Harvey – Other Presences – trumpet and electronics – 2008

  • Jonathan Harvey – Ricercare una Melodia – trumpet and electronics – 1984

  • Paul Hindemith – Sonata for Trumpet and Piano – trumpet and piano – 1939

  • Elgar Howarth – Capriccio – solo trumpet – 1975

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Aries – solo trumpet – 1977

  • Karlheinz Stockhausen – Solo – trumpet and electronics – 1966

  • Hanna Kulenty – Trumpet Concerto – trumpet and orchestra – 2002

  • Eric Lyon – Spiral – trumpet and electronics – 2005

  • James MacMillan – Epiclesis – trumpet and electronics – 1993

  • Wynton Marsalis – Trumpet Concerto – trumpet and orchestra – 2023

  • Pamela Z – Delay – trumpet and electronics – 2002

  • Christopher Rouse – Heimdall’s Trumpet – trumpet and orchestra – 2012

  • Paul Rudy – Degrees of Separation – trumpet and electronics – 2007

  • Henri Tomasi – Trumpet Concerto – trumpet and orchestra – 1948

  • James Stephenson – Sonata for Trumpet and Piano – trumpet and piano – 2001

  • Otto Ketting – Intrada – solo trumpet – 1958

  • Mark-Anthony Turnage – Dispelling the Fears – trumpet and electronics – 1994

  • Betsy Jolas – Episode No. 9 – trumpet and electronics – 1982

  • Hilda Paredes – Recuerdos de un Jardín – trumpet and electronics – 2006

  • Thea Musgrave – Trumpet Concerto – trumpet and orchestra – 2019

  • Jon Hassell – Vernal Equinox – trumpet and electronics – 1977

  • Elainie Lillios – Veiled Resonance – trumpet and electronics – 2009

  • Wadada Leo Smith – Pacifica Koral Reef – trumpet and electronics – 2021

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