Daniel Blanco & Friends Trumpet Recital #3 is the annual electrifying, compelling, energetic, magnetic, unpredictable, eye-opening, adjective, adjective and adjective (explanatory sentence for the last adjective) trumpet recital where everything is possible. 

Programme:

 Si Paton -  Summer depression

Patrick Ellis - Trumpet, Alone

Hugo Bell - Canon  

Cam Athanasiades - Symphonies

Rob Crehan - Fractured melodic line over an oscillating chord progression  

Veronika Tabakova - Bulgarian Forest  

Andy Ingamells - Tea Towel

Robin Morton - Duende por Dani Blanco Albert

Andrew Hamilton - JOY

For the second year in a row new pieces for solo trumpet composed by both students and established composers were premiered, this time at CODA festival. This year, we did also hear new duos especially to be performed by their composer and the trumpeter.

Programme:

 Daniel Blanco Albert -  Caligari's Moment

with Daniel Lipton and Paul Zaba

Paul Zaba - Piece for Trumpet and Accordion  

Seán Clancy - Blanco Slows Down and Eventually Stops  

Harm Roché van Tiddens - Rhino Midden  

Andrés Valero Castells - Impromptu  

Sam Leith Taylor - Sweet  

Felix Cheung - Three Scenes from Windermere 

The project aimed, through a series of workshops to create new music for solo trumpet to educate audience, composers and performers about all the possibilities of the trumpet nowadays. These pieces may include elements such as music theatre, electronics or any other external elements, but being the concept "solo trumpet" the main key.

This project was borne at Birmingham Conservatoire and involved the composition of pieces by both members of the staff and students, so there is a feedback between established composers and young fellows.

Programme:

Michael Wolters - Fünf Fanfaren

Andrew Toovey - The Trumpet in my Life

Thomas Earl - Solo for Trumpet

Sabino de Bari - Ricercare

Richard Leigh Harris - Buddy's Soliloquy

Errollyn Wallen - Fanfare for Gavin

Richard Leigh Harris - Leonardo's Cathedral

Emily Abdy - Experiments

Same Leith Taylor - And, and, and

Rob Roberts - Break the Groove

Max Gibson - For Dani