Inner Workings

Explore the various aspects of a trumpet player through three distinct movements using three different trumpets and additional electronic voices. Each movement represents aspects and qualities of the emerging trumpet soloist. In the first movement, Fanfare for the Mind, we hear the piccolo trumpet in a triumphant fanfare and contrasting lyrical passages. The second movement, Soul's Solitude, explores the depth and beauty of the instrument through the use of a flugelhorn and improvisation. The concluding movement, Imagination Unbound, demonstrates the acrobatic and whimsical nature of the traditional B-flat trumpet through technical passages and an imaginative cadenza, culminating in a grand flourish that brings it all together, revealing the trumpet's most powerful "inner workings."