Olivier Anthony Theurillat plays Jean-Baptiste Arban (Variations on Bellini's Norma)

Year 1996 -
Whilst a student at The Juilliard School, New York, I won my first professional orchestra audition for the position of Principal Trumpet in the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra (Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne), at the time led by conductor Jesus Lopez Cobos.
A few weeks after, I got the 2nd Prize at the 52nd Geneva International Competition For Musical Performers (Concours International d'Exécution Musicale de Genève, CIEM), which gave me the chance to perform as a soloist accompanied by the Suisse Romande Orchestra (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, OSR).
Year 1997 -
In Munich, at the 46th ARD International Music Competition (Internationaler Musikwettbewerb der ARD), I got the 3rd Prize, but was 1st laureate as no 1st or 2nd prizes were awarded.
This gave the opportunity to play several times as a soloist accompanied by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks), conducted by Michael Schonwandt for instance, playing concertos from Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Michael Haydn and André Jolivet.
This year marked also my debut as a soloist accompanied by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra, with works by Neruda, Copland and the world premiere of "Ascencus", a piece composed by Swiss composer Jean-Claude Schlaepfer (BIM Editions). "Ascensus" was conducted by Alan Gilbert, current Music Director of the New York Philharmonic, and was recorded live for the CD label "Musiques suisses".
With the request of the Swiss TV Broadcaster in Zurich, I recorded a few clips for the channel called SF1 at the time. Here are the "Variations on Bellini's Norma" written by French legendary cornettist Jean-Baptiste Arban.

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