Stacy Blair, who lost nearly all his sight at birth, played for his guide dog Guthrie in 1998. He was a soloist with orchestras in several cities, including Dallas. Stacy Blair was never able to see ...

This week's guest on the Gramophone Podcast is trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth, who talks to Editor Martin Cullingford about her new recording on the Lawo label. Called 'Echoes', it features works by ...

There's one name that speaks like no other to quality in classical music: Juilliard. Founded in 1905 and located on the Lincoln Center campus in New York City since the '60s, The Juilliard School is ...

Sergei Nakariakov has broken through more than a few of the perceived boundaries framing the world of the trumpet in classical music. Dubbed "The Paganini of the trumpet" by the Finnish press after a ...

Few orchestras can boast as fine a talent as John McElroy, whose exceptional trumpet solos and section leadership are nearly taken for granted during the Alabama Symphony season. His sweetly majestic ...

This year the BBC Proms highlights some fantastic and extraordinary concertos, musical works for an instrumental soloist and an orchestra or ensemble. From Shostakovich to Mozart, and Vivaldi to new ...

The trumpet was the star instrument of the baroque period, but it fell out of favor not long after. “There are no trumpet concertos by Beethoven or Brahms,” trumpeter Steve Charpie said in a recent ...