Live trumpet masterclass with Omar Tomasoni & student Jānis Frīdenfelds / RJAcademy 2020/21

Masterclass of the Riga Jurmala Online Music Academy – live trumpet by Omar Tomasoni, the principal trumpet player of the Concertgebouworkest.

Omar Tomasoni is principal trumpet player with the Concertgebouworkest since August 2013. Tomasoni graduated with honours from the conservatory of Brescia, where he quickly established a career as principal trumpeter with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala, the Janáček Festival Orchestra and – from 2004 to 2008 – the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino under the direction of Zubin Mehta.

Tomasoni has worked as a substitute with the Concertgebouworkest, the Mozart Orchestra and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. In 2008, he was appointed principal trumpeter with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, led by Sir Antonio Pappano.

He was awarded the Bronze Medal of the Italian Republic in 2003 for his achievements as an active member of the European Union Youth Orchestra. An avid chamber musician, Tomasoni is a member and co-founder of the eclectic wind quintet Italian Wonderbrass.

Omar Tomasoni has a C trumpet, built by Gerd Dowids, on loan from the Foundation Concertgebouworkest. This instrument is a gift from the Freundeskreis Schweiz, the Swiss Circle of Friends of the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

More about the artist: https://www.concertgebouworkest.nl/en/omar-tomasoni

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Student of the masterclass:
Jānis Frīdenfelds, student of the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music

Repertoire: orchestra repertoire and J. Haydn - Trumpet Concerto, 1st mvt

Jānis Frīdenfelds received his education at Valmiera Music School and later on at the Alfrēds Kalniņš Cēsu Music Secondary School, where he studied trumpet and chamber music.

Currently he is studying trumpet playing at Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music. He has participated in several masterclasses with Ivo Ots (Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre), Pasi Pirinen and Aki Välimäki (Sibelius Academy), Olivier Theurillat (Conservatoire de musique de La Chaux-de-Fonds), Thierry Caens (Dijon Conservatory), Miikka Saarinen (Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra) and others.
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Видео Live trumpet masterclass with Omar Tomasoni & student Jānis Frīdenfelds / RJAcademy 2020/21 канала Riga Jurmala Music Festival