Pertaining to my personal Brass Performance experience I have had the wonderful opportunity and continually enjoyable experience of performing "professionally" in a wide variety of musical capacities (and this most especially as a featured Solo Trumpeter), world-wide for more than 55 years!
Performing and recording works spanning from the early Renaissance and Baroque to the Classical, Romantic and up to the most recent modern compositions (often written specifically for me) and in practiaclly all thinkable musical Constellation, involving the Trumpet in it's various forms as Ensmble and Solo Intrument, has been my life's work for almost 6 Decades, ... yes since my first studies in Jnauary of 1965!

Performing in public and yes professionally! from a very early age (only 10!) with Traditional Symphonic, Concert and Brass Bands, often Directing and Performing togther with World-Touring, Broad-Spectrum Brass Ensembles, such the Russian, German and Munich Brass Ensembles, as well as with members of the "original" Canadian Brass, the International Brass Virtuosi, the Moscow Master Brass and my own "Prince Bishop of Wuerzburg's Wind-Ensemble", my life as Brass Chamber Musician has been a true international musical adventure.
In fact and although as it became increasingly only a small part of many of my many new musical activities to follow, Brass Ensemble Teaching, Performance and Recording remains an important part, yes, my favourite and most passionate professional musical activity.

Making my way through selected Institutional and Private Studies in both Canada and the US (studying in Regina, Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Vanvouver, Banff, Toronto, Montreal, Philadelphia, New York and Chicago) and in the Fall of 1978 studying briefly in London, England and Munich, Germany, I took my first Audition in Europe on November 4th 1978!
With this, my first European Audition I promptly became at just age 22, the 1.- Solo-Trumpet of the German Opera on the Rhein, Duesseldorf!  
Only two months later, in mid-January of 1979, as I was performing and recording as "Guest" Symphonic and Chamber Music Solo-Trumpeter with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, I was spontaeneously invited by the members of  "Bamberger Symhoniker" (and most importantly through Enrique Crespo, their Solo Trombonist at that time) to Audition for the long vacant position of 1st Solo-Trumpet in that World Famous (still) Private Orchestra.
Accordingly on February 4th 1979, I did so, won the Audition was offered the position and began to tour and perform with the "Bamberger Symphoniker" (formerly the German Prague Symphony with which amoung others even W. A. Mozart and Johann Nepomuk Hummel had performed), beginning in July of that very year!

My very first perfomance with the Bamberg Symphony in  July of 1979 was Gustav Mahler's 5th Symphony and this in Athens, Greece!
It was for the opening of the Athens International Music Fesival!
This Festival took place in the historic "Herodius Atticus" Theatre, situated at the foot of the Acropolus!
Performing my very first Concert with the Bamberg Symphony and this before 3000 listeners in such a famous, Roman "Open Air" Theatre Arena from the 5th Century, A.D., performing the most famous Trumpet "Solo-Introdution" in the entire Symphonic Orchestral repertoire, was truly a huge challange and an needless to say an unforgetable experinece for me! For whom would it not be such!?
Thereafter I was on continual World Tour (for over 4 years) and with this Orchestra and amoung others Enrique Crespo (Solo Trombone) and Wolfgang Gaag, (then Solo Horn) by the Bamberger Symphony it was during this time that we three began (yes, as a Brass Trio!) to create what was later to become in 1984/85 the now "world renown" 10 member "German Brass" Ensemble. 

With the "German Brass" and as International Orchestral Trumpeter (performing and recording with not only the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra but with several other major Swiss, Chech and Slovenian Radio, the new Prague Phiharmonic, as well as those Radio Orchestras in Basel, Genvea and Bern and including those in Southeran Germany: the Stuttgart Radio, Saarland Radio, Baden Baden Radio, the Bavarian Radio, the Fankfurt Radio not to mention the Munich Philharmonic) and after in September of 1980 and again in the Spring of 1981 winning both of the Top Prizes of the world's most pretigeuos Classical Solo-Trumpet Comepitions: "the German and the Swiss International Radio and Television Classical Trumpet Compeitions", in Munich and Geneva respectively, I accordingly began performing frequently as well as "featured" Concert Soloist, world- wide.
 

During this whole time and continuing afterwards I not only performed and recorded many of the Major Symphonic Orchestral Works (including Gustav Mahler's 2nd, 5th and 9th Symphonies, Tschaikowsky's 4th and 5th Symphonies, Stravinsky's Soldiers Tale, The Rite of Spring and The Fire Bird; Anton Bruckner's 4th, 7th, 8th and 9th Symphonies; several of Richard Strauss's Tone Poems including Don Quixote, Don Juan, Til Eulenspiegel and Ein Heldenleben; Geo. Gershwin's Piano Concerto, Cuban Overature and Rhapsody in Blue, etc., etc.) paralellel to world -wide performances as the Lead-First Solo Trumpeter of the German Brass and as well as Baroque Trumpet Concert Soloist I was as Trumpeter quite "sought after".

I performed many of the best known Baroque and Classical Solo Trumpet works, including those by J.S. Bach, (his 2nd Brandeburg Concerto and diverse array of Cantaten) the Concertos of Torelli, Albinoni, Tomasi, Jolivet, Arutunian, Hadyn, Leopold and W. A. Mozart and Johann Nepomuck Hummel on both Historical and Modern Intruments and these in Concert Halls from Johannesburg and Pretoria, to Paris, Madrid and from Kiev to Moscow, St. Petersburg, London Hong Kong, Tokyo and New York etc... while recording "Schallplatten" and CDs for the NHK ( Tokio), WDR (Collogne), NDR (Hamberg), BR Munich and Neurenberg), BBC (London) Radio and Television as well as for Major International Recording Labels including RCA, BMG, Sony and EMI.
From 1987 I began to Conduct, Produce and Direct for my own La Tromba Recording label as well as recording with several famous Conductors including Willhelm Hollresier, Charles Dutoit, Christoph Eschenbach, Horst Stein, Loren Maazel and most especially the truly greatest Bruckner Specialist and personal founder of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in Munich , Prof. Eugen Jochum!
All these very "early experiences" were, as you may well imagine truly exciting and very "formative" experineces for me!

Thereafter I frequently recorded and performed Sololistically and as both Orchestral Solo Trumpeter for amoung other Nurnberg Opera and the Mannhiem Ballet but as well with the Bavarian Radio Studio Orchestras for Film Music as well with diverse Chamber Ensembles (both on Historical and Modern Instruments) and began Producing CDs and Conducting my own Ensembles and Orchestas, recording and performing music from the Renaissance, Baroque and Classic to the Rock and Jazz Idioms in Radio and TV Studios in Germany and throughout Europe, including Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia, Russia, Poland, the Ukraine, the Chechislovakia and Chech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, Finnland and England.

In the early 1990s I recorded aswell for the Konstantin and Koch-International Film Production Companies in Munich and else where in Europe, performing as both Soloist and Orchestral Solo-Trumpeter with both the Munich Philharmonic, the Bavarian Radio Symphony and Radio (Studio) Orchestras recording with amoung other truly International musical personalities, Hans Zimmer, Germany/USA. Peter Herbolzheimer and Konstantin Wecker, Germany and Michel LeGrand, France.

My additional participation in the performance of Diverse and Broad-Spectrum Show Music,"Broadway" Musicals (in North America and Europe), Film Music (recording for both European and Hollywood Major Film Production Companies) with Mixed Combos, BigBands and Full Symphony Orchestras, in various traditional Duo and Trio forms (with Organ, Piano, Guitar  and Percussion), in many forms of Modern Chamber Music (Classical Structures and Jazz), as well for International Educational Publishing and Recording Companies (i.e. MMO, New York), as well as performing  "on Tour" with Rock Bands and Pop Music Productions,
... not to forget performing live and recording with both Traditional, ultra Modern, yes even so called "Free Jazz" groups.
Performing throughout the whole world with members of the original Canadian and Russian Brass Quintets, as well as with my own International Brass Virtuosi, Munich Brass and Prince Bischop of Wuerzburg's Brass Consortium, I have been richly rewarded by many musically dynamic experienecs.

Since then and through my various "Guest" Professorships and during extended Ensemble and Solo Concert Tours over the past 55 years in Canada, the USA, throughout Europe (as well as up to 2019 in both the Ukraine and Russia), I feel truly blessed to have been able to sincerely "help" serious, aspiring Trumpeter and other Music Students of all Musical Interests become themselves, truly successful Broad-Spectrum Professional Musicians.

So, all this said, if you took the time to read this preceeding (short) Professional Bio you may well imagine why this Web-Site is designed to be both a Contact Address for Music Production and Concerts involving myself and many of my colleagues as well as a Platform to offer serious answers to serious trumpet players questions, both on-line, through several Music YouTubes, Films as well as through personal written Texts.

A short Youth Study portrait:
Beginning my music studies at 9 years of age and performing first in the Salvation Army Brass Band in my home town of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada (in which I played with my Sisters, Liz  (Eb Alto Horn) and Gerry Lou (Euphonium); Bother Don (Trombone) and of course my Father, Kenneth (Tuba), I have continued in this musically rewarding Brass Ensemble Genre throughout my entire professional Musical Career!
But at age 11 years of age and after in 1967, winning my first National Classical Solo-Trumpet Competition, I began making my CBC recordings and performing on Regional Radio and TV in my Hometown. That same year 1967 I did my first Tour throughout Saskatchewan as the so called "Wunder Kid Trumpet-Soloist" with full size Professional Big-Band accompaniment!
This was for the Canadian National Centenary Festivities.
Then followed both my ensemble membership in the Police boys band the Royal Canadian Legion, the University of Saskachewan Brass Quintet as well as U. of S. Jazz Big Band and Symphonic Windensemble.

I recorded as Classical Radio Soloist for the Regional and eventually both of the Canadian National (CBC and CTV) TV and Radio Networks and as the "youngest ever" member of the Regina Symphony at age 13, I was asked to be the 1st. Assistant Teacher to the Head of the Brass Department in the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus, Dr. Mel Carey with my own Music Studio in the Univesity beginning at age 14!
I actrually did my 9th grade High School "homework" in my own University Office!

Also in 1970 and as Soloist and Assistant Conductor of the Inter-Collegiate Symphony Orchestra of Regina, I Toured Europe performing amoung other Solo Works, the Haydn Trumpet Concerto, as well as the Solo Trumpets Parts of Handel's "Messiah" (most specificaly "The Trumpet Shall Sound") in amoung others famous Historical venues in England , the Westminster Abbey in London.  I was Solo Trumpeter of both the Saskatchwan Youth Band and Orchestra and that same year I auditioned for and was invited to be the 1st Trumpet/Cornetist of the National Youth Chamber and one year later the First Trumpet of National Youth Symphony Orchestras of Canada.

As Lead-Trumpet in several High School, Intercolleagiate and Provencial (Intercity) Big Bands and Symphonic Wind Ensmbels as well as from age 15 with the University Big Band, with "Fusion" Bands and Wind Ensembles of both of the Universities of Saskatchewan (Regina and Saskatoon) I still found time to co-found and perform as 1st Trumpeter in the University Faculty Brass Quintet and as the Solo Trumpeter in both of these University's Symphonic Wind Ensembles.
I progessed to the position of 1st. Solo Trumpet of the Regina Symphony (age 15) and continued playing with this organisation as "Featured Soloist" until at age 20 I was appointed to the position of "Soloist" Member" of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra under the famous American Composer (and mentor of Leonard Bernstein!) Aaron Copland. With him conducting I recorded and performed his famous Quiet City and the Haydn Trumpet Concerto Live for CBC Radio. Further Recitals with Piano and in various other Ensemble Constellatiosn, where I featured as Soloist took place in the summer of 1976 in Banff, Alberta with Aaron Copland as Musical Director.

After winning three of the National Music Competitions in Canada (both the CBC TV and Radio the CBC National Radio and Television Solo Competitions and the national Music Fesival )  in 1976 I competed for and recieved a series of Canada Council "Arts Grants" with which, from 1976 through 1978, I began my "selected" Master-Class Studies: first studying in Philadelphia (at the Curtis Insititute with Frank Kaderabek), then in 1977 in Chicago (at the North Western University with Vincent Chicowitz) and after traveling to Europe in 1978, invited to be the Solo Trumpeter of the World Youth Orchestra and performing for amoung others high dignitaries the then "Prince" and now "King" Charles the III for the Opening Concert of "The Proms" in London's "Royal Albert Hall" with Philp Jones on London.

Thereafter, I remained in London, England with the specific aim of Studying Privately with the great Philip Jones, then Principal of the Trinity College. But after meeting and playing for Mr. Jones for a very few minutes, I took his blunt and simple advice not to waiste my time studying but to directly resume my Professional Career!
Therefore I promtly left for Germany to study with Rolf Quinque, then Solo Trumpet of Munich Philharmonic and Professor at the Richard Strauss Conservatory in Munich to prepare for Orchestral Audtions. After 3 Study Hours with Mr. Quinque in October I took my first Audition on November 4th 1978 and promtly won my first Professional European Orchestral position becoming at age 22 the 1.- Solo-Trumpet of the German Opera on the Rhein, in Düsseldorf!

In 1983 the Bavarian State Ministery of Culture awarded to me an honoary "University Degree" and in so doing helped with the creation of a Special Trumpet and Chamber Music "Professorship" specifically and exclusively for me in Wuerzburg, an institution that was to later become the Bavarian State Conservatory / University of Music.
This allowed me to be involved in even more and diverse musical activies up to my retirement in December of 2021.
 

^{_{From October 2020 to this past June(2023) I managed also to produce over 130 of what I hope for you are both informative and even intertaining YOUTUBES!
And at 67 I still feel pretty vital and strong and am, by all determinations by my Medical Doctors "in perfect health"!
So, I thought, despite my retirement from my past "Intitutional" teaching position at the Bavarian State University here in Wuerzburg, Germany, why stop now?
Over a half century of Professional Trumpet Performance and Teaching experience must be passed on!}}

<sup><sub>Here are some Links to several of my Broad Spectrum YOUTUBES:

"Richard Carson Steuart-The Man With The Horns":</sub></sup>

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F91v-hKiyQ&t=11s}

^{_{A Cultural Excavation: "Clarino Project zu Leipzig":}}

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FogyMUViVIo}

^{_{My "Legacy" series of Pure Music:}}

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEVUgGxSr0A}

_{My last Live TV Recording as Solo Trumpeter with the Bamberg Symphony
Tokio / 1982} 

0:00 / 1:23:37 Bruckner Sinfonie Nr 8 in c-Moll WAB 108
Eugen Jochum Bamberger Symphoniker

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfrBOq7rzVU}

^{_{and I F YOU PREFER J A Z Z :}}

^{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V1B4fhjrb0}

^{(featuring amoung other works: my version of Miles Davis' "Nardis"; Isaac Albeniz's "Seville" for Guitar and Trumpet ; my very own Free Improvistion: "Spanish Blue"and finally as a Chill Out: Ron Carter's "Sabado Sombreo")}

_{For your interest:}
Here's a link to some of my most recent Soundcloud offerings:
Richard Carson Steuart on Soundcloud
 

_{Many of these You Tubes consist of "Live" TV and Studio Recordings and Videos of Renaissance, Barqoue, Classical, Romantic and Modern "Classical" works that were Produced and/or Co-Produced over the past 50 and more years of my Recording Career by my firm La Tromba Music Productions.
Some too, have been released by permission from other recordinmgs firms and yet others have been digitaly remastered to improve the general Sound Quality, that is, upgraded from their original Analoge by special Re- Mastering. 
But, I am happy to say still others are even BRAND NEW and with whole new musical "ideas and directions", and these too recorded both LIVE in Concert and in my Private Studio. All are my humble contribution to the world of Trumpet Music!
God willing, I will continue to release a much more complete "Musical Legacy"!}

It is my personal wish to offer YOU practical, realistic suggestions and solutions regarding both your Artistic and Basic "day to day" practise and playing problems but also to suggest and offer Music, Mouthpieces and Trumpets of my own design and manufacture as well as those of others and simply put, to give experienced "support" to serious Trumpet Players, however and whenever their playing needs require.
My aim is to help you to change and adapt to problems when they develope or when you just want to further devlope and improve your playing capabilities... improving your Tonal Quality, Flexibilitiy, Range, Endurance, Phrasing, understanding and applications of Musical Interpertations and Styles from the Renaissance to Modern Jazz Idioms.

From my earliest Professional beginnings in Canada in 1967 (at age 11) as a so called "wonder-kid" Soloist (and this  "On Tour" with a Professional Big Band accompaniment), as a founding member of the University of Saskatchewan Brass Quinett, a Teaching Assistant and Solo-Trumper of both the Symphonic Wind-Ensemble and Big Band at the University of Saskatchewan (from 1970, beginning at age 14), as a member of the Regina Symphony (from 1969), through my 6 year membership in the National Youth Chamber and Symphony Orchestras of Canada, cullminating in my performances as their Featured Soloist and finally as Radio and TV Soloist ( after winning the CBC Soloists Prize) as the Solo-Trumpeter of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra under Aaron Copland (through  to 1976), you may understand that my experience grew and grew.
In in 1976 I won 3 consecutives Canada Arts Grants with which I decided to continued my Private Master-Class Studies in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, London and lastly Munich where I focused my energy and developed my abilites to continue my Professional Opera, Symphonic, Broad Spectrum Chamber and Soloist Activiites in Europe!
From November 1978 I was appointed the Solo-Trumpet of the German Opera in Düsseldorf and 3 Months later was offered the Solo-Trumpet Position with the "world touring" Bamberg Symphony Orchestras (remaining there to 1983), as well as Co-foundering (original) German Brass Ensemble, Founding and Leading The International Brass Virtuosi (from1982) not to forget the Musical Directiuon of the Munich Brass (from 1983), and (since 1999) the "Fürstbischofliches Blaserconsortium zu Wuerzburg".

I have always enjoyed and continue to "love" Directing and Performing with diverse groups of fine Professional Musicians, giving Radio and TV Concerts and making several Recordings even today.  

During this whole time I have also been pleased and even sincerely grateful to be have been, where ever possible supportive through Private Lessons, Courses and International Master- Classes at both smaller Institutions such the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, the Unversities of North Carolina in Charlotte and Chapel Hill, in Lexington and Louiville Kentucky, at the Unversity of Athens in Georgia, in the USAas well as in larger Institutions in Russia such as the Rimsky Korsakov, Modest Mousorgsky and Peter I. Tchaikovsky Conservatories in St. Petersburg and Moscow; the Royal and Nothern Colleges of Music in London and Manchester; the Franz Liszt and Friedrich Chopin Conservatories in Poland and Germany and at various Conservatories and Music Universities in France, Switzerland, Austria, Solvenia, Croatia, the Ukraine, etc., etc., to where ever asked, help many Trumpers and Brass players generally to perform music more easily, phyically more efficiently and most importantly more enjoyably.

The Menu List for this Expansive Website:
In the top left-hand corner of your viewing-screen or mobile service device (in this case showing our "La Tromba Music / HOME" Page) you my find links and sub-links to a number of added and Specific Informational Options, on this website, i.e.:

La Tromba Music
Personal Vision, Firm Concept, New Concert Series and Trumpet Competitions
Richard Carson Steuart 
Artist Biography, Concert Information, Interviews, Press Releases
CDs and Study-Books
from and through La Tromba Music
La Tromba Musici
The Diverse Musicans associated with La Tromba Music Productions:
Munich Brass, Duos, European Baroque Ensemble, German Chamber Soloists (String Orchestra, String Orchester plus Winds), La Tromba Trumpet Ensemble, The Wind Ensemble of the "Prince Bishop of Wuerzburg". And so on...

So, if you have a problem or just need to pose a question answered about the Trumpet, please feel free go to "Contact" and leave your "contact data" for me to reply to you personally or simply send me/us an e-mail to : la.tromba.steuart@web.de
I will get back to you... that's a promise!

Sincerely yours,

R. C. Steuart

"My sincere wish through this webiste, is to reach out to the ever competitive world of trumpeters with an open approach and a friendly, truly collegial attitude!"

<sub>This is certainly not a kind of "Trumpet Forum" website, which often propigate only unqualified criticisms about players, their  choices of mouthpieces or instruments and all too often offering superficial solutions for truly "complicated" playing problems... but rather an attempt to offer serious Professional Advise, (aquired through my many decades of Professional Concert and Recording and Teaching experience) to help YOU with your specific personal and very individual trumpet- playing needs.
It is a sincere attempt to  initiate informed Coaching and Consulting, if possible here in my La Tromba Studio or online and in any event on a "one on one" basis, for truly Serious Trumpeters, all be it as earnest Amateurs, aspiring Students and/or Full-Professionals alike!

^{Despite the Governmental "Covid Lock-Down" period, (in Germany from March of 2020 through to April of 2022), I was able, after 40 years for Broad spectrum teaching (and often performing with my Students) from Baroque to Jazz Performance, to finally present my "Farewell" Concert from the Bavarian State Music University, here in Wuerzburg, Germany.
This took place on the 7th of May 2022 and this I am happy to say, completely "unmasked" (for both the perfomers and attending public)! We recorded/filmed LIVE and large portions thereof will be released though this website, as YouTubes in the near future.}</sub>

Here if you will, is "a little" more General Info about my early development as a musician:

Born in Canada in 1956, I recieved my first musical instrument, a Cornet, on my 9th Birthday.
After only one year of serious studies under first my father Kenneth Leslie and six months later for a following year and one half under a a very fine Broad SectrumTrumpeter and Teacher, Prof. Dr. John Harding, I began performing semi-professionally as Soloist in Churches and well as with various groups from Brass Ensembles, Brass and Symphonic Wind Bands to Jazz Big Bands, eventually touring in 1967 at as soloist at 11 years of age in my home country of Canada with a Full Professional Big Band accompaniment, billed as (no less than) a "wonder child" Jazz- Trumpet-Soloist! Oh "boy"!?

Parallel to this I performed as a serious Classical / Symphonic Musician and Soloist (the youngest "ever" Soloist Member of the Regina Symphony) and accepted my first official Assistant- Teaching position to Prof. Dr. Mel Carey of Berklee California, then Head of the Brass Department at the University of Saskatchewan in 1970 and this for many, at the unheard of age of 14. I also studied the Piano, Oboe, Saxophone, Clarinet, Harmonie and Counter Point at the Conservatory and eventally taught the Clarinet and Saxophone for the School Board  and this while still attending High School.
Continually Developing a Broad-Spectrum Concert and Recording Career as Trumpet Soloist I won, in 1976, both the CBC (Canadian National Television and Radio) and the Canadian National Music Festival Competitions and these for all Orchestral Solo Instruments.

I was thereafter appointed "Soloist and Solo-Trumpeter" of the Canadian Chamber Orchestra under the famous Aaron Copland (Leonard Bernstein's teacher and mentor!)
That same year I also competed for and received a series of three consecutive International "Arts Study Scholarships" from the Canadian National Governmentental "Council of the Arts". 
I herewith continued my musical development on an International level through  a series of "Selected Master-Class Studies" (both Institutionally and Privately) in the USA, England and lastly in Germany: namely in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, London and Munich beginning in September of 1976 (with a four year Full Scholarship to the Curtis Institute in Philadephia), then in 1977 in Chicago and 1978 in New York. In June of 1978 I flew to Europe as the Solo-Trumpeter of the World Youth Orchestra hoping to end my Studies in London in August after completing a two month Tour of England and Switzerland.
However my professional career resumed earlier than I had planned after I was "advised" by Mr. Philip Jones (then Principal of the Trinity College of London) to simply give my scholarships back to the Canadian Arts Council and move directly to Germany to "take a Full Time Professional Orchestral position".
After three preparatory lessons in Munich in October with the Solo Trumpeter of the Munich Phil., Mr. Rolf Quinque I was officially invited to Audition for and Won my first European Orchestral Audition on November 4th, becoming the Solo-Trumpet of the German Opera on the Rhein, in Duesseldorf.
Almost immeadiately thereafter I found myself very busy as (Guest) Orchestral Solo-Trumpeter throught Germany and later Switzerland  (with amoung other major German Opera and Sympnony Orchestras, as the Nuernburg and Essen State Operas, the National Theater of Mannheim and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestras) and in mid-January 1979 was also invited to be the 1. Solo Trumpeter of both the World Touring Bamberg Symphony Orchestra as well as to join the "German Brass" Ensemble (then a Brass Quintett with members from among others, the Berlin Phil., and Hamburg and Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestras). These two final positions I began in July of 1979 with subsiquent recordings for Audtite, RCA, EMI and Sony.
Successive and diverse Professional engagements, combined with my winning of the International Solo-Trumpet Competition in Germany, (the International ARD Wettbewerb) and the STR (Switzerland) Radio and Television Classical Solo-Trumpet Competitions in 1980 and 1981 respectively, helped greatly to further accelerate my Solo Career in Europe in the early 1980s.

In 1982, with the expressed help of the "Bavarian Ministry of Culture" I was honored with the receipt of a Music Masters Degree "equivilant" as was an all new position,"created" specifically for me at the City Music Conservatory (later the State Hochschule of Musik/ University of Music) in Wuerzburg, Bavaria. This further allowed me from 1982/1983 more "flexibility" so as to develop my Solo Career as both Modern Concert and Recording Soloist AND Broad Spectrum Chamber Musician, from Authenic Baroque to Modern Jazz.

The ensuing forty years of Radio and Television Solo TV Concerts, World Concert Tours and CD Recordings accompanied by Chamber and Symphony Orchestras, Solo Trumpet engagements  with Opera and Ballet Companies, Rock, Pop and Big-Band Concert Tours, European and even "Hollywood" Film Music Recordings have made my Musical Life truly "exciting".

Subsequent Instrumental Consulting, Designing and Manufacturing experiences in Germany (Klier and Laedge), the USA(Kanstul) and Japan (Yamaha) from 1980 to 2022 combined with my own "on-going" Historical and Modern Trumpet / Instrumental Research, Performance and Recording efforts on both Electronic and Authentic "Period" Instruments, continue to be very envigorating for me! 

So you may well imagine, that as Soloist / Ensemble Leader / Musical Recording Director (in literally thousands of "Live" Public Concerts as well as Studio Recordings from Baroque to Jazz) as the Winner of several International Radio and Television Solo Trumpet Competitions (in Germany, Switzerland and Canada) and through the Producing of and personally Conducting well over 20 Solo LPs and CDs for my own La Tromba Music Productions Company, (as well as recording for others Major International Companies (such as RCA, EMI, BMG and MMO New York), I have continually learned and relearned what it is to be a truly Broad-Spectrum Musician.

Having also had the great pleasure to perform and record as Soloist and/or as Guest Solo-Trumpeter internationally under World Famous Composers and Conductors in Orchestras, Symphonic Wind-Ensembles, Big Bands, Mixed-Modern-Music and "Fusion" Ensembles, with Traditional Brass Bands, with various Pop and Rock Bands, Historical Instrumental Ensembles and Modern Jazz Combos, as well as in Duo Combinations with fine Pianists, Organists, Percussionists, Electric and Acoustic Guitarist and many more, my musical life- experiences have been a diverse, creative "adventure"

Since age 14 as Conductor, and/or Leader (often performing as both Soloist and or Ensemble member) while recording with Modern, Classical and even Historical (Baroque) Chamber Ensembles, Directing and personally Spomsoring and Organising both International Conferences (i.e. for the International and European Trumper Guild: ITG and ETG) holding Master Classes throughout the World and as well acting as "Executive Producer" for my own Recording Firm LaTromba, all in one person, you can believe me when I say I have had a lot of intensive, "creative fun" in my life!

Oh!?! 
Did I mention the great honour and unbelieveable experience of playing, if only briefly, as "Guest Soloist" with the World Famous Barum and Baileys - "Greatest Show on Earth!" A THREE RING CIRCUS Band? ) ;-)))
TRULY (with 10 Elephants!)
Truly BIG FUN!!!

My/our most recent major BROAD SPECTRUM MUSICAL OFFERING:

a "La Tromba Music CONCERT Production", called a "Konzert for Kiev", took place on the 7th of May, 2022 in the Grand Hall of the Bavarian State "Music University" in Würzburg.

This was also billed as my "farewell" Concert from this Bavarian State University in which Lectured from 1982/2001/2022 in which we presented Music spanning from the Renaissance to Modern Jazz and even commissioned works from the 21st Century specifically for this FINAL Concert!

This Concert was  both Filmed and Sound Recorded in it's entirery (2 1/2 hours of music) by two seperate Recording Teams! Specific portions of this Concert and will be released in several shorter You Tubes over 2023 and 2024.

This Ukarainian / Russian War and it's tragic consiquences for Millions of completely  innocent persons is going to go on for quite a while into the future, that is obvious today and a contined help certainly will be needed. Please if feel the empathy as I do for these people, do YOUR part and have done and continue to do so.


During this 40 year time span I had held a number of positions and even founded, organised and directed a broad range of Musical Ensembles including the Conservatory Big Band and in so doing founded the "Jazz Department" (in 1983) passing it on to various Colleagues (that I had personally recriuted and supported as they were brought to school:  amoung others, the Polish Saxophonist, Lezak Sadlo and American Trombonist, Richard Roblee) and regularialy performing in and with the "Konz. Big Band" to help to develpoe this important structure.

I lead as well, diverse "Chamber Ensmebles" (i.e "The German Chamber Soloists" and "The Prince Bischop of Wuerzburger's  Windensemble"), while Performing with my Students in German Histroical Musical Venues as well as on Tour through Europe.
As the Trumpet Instructor for Historical (Classical and Baroque) Trumpet and Modern Brass Ensemble at the Conservatory up to 2001 and thereafter in a special function as "Teacher with Special Assignments" up to the beginning of 2022.
I enjoyed performing Internationaly with my Students and/or recording with them together with selected University and Conservatory colleagues and added professionals of both National  and International acclaim such as Prof. Jiggs Wighams (USA/ Germany), Bobby Shew (USA), Dr. Fredrick W.  Mills (USA/Kanada), Dr. Edward H. Tarr (USA/Switzerland), Prof. Jean-Francois Madeuf (Switzerland/France), Prof. Michael Laird (England) and Marc Ullrich (France) and these in both Concerts and open Master Classes, for both TV and Radio Stations in Germany (SWR, SR and BR Nuremberg and Munich), as well as those in several others European countries, including England, Poland, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia and France. 

This specific Concert Event began on May 7th 2022 at 19:30 with a Preludium "über Martin Luther's Choral "Aus Tiefer Not" (Psalm 130)" from 1500, a special  composition written by the German Composer and Music Historian (and I'm proud to say a long time colleague and personal "friend of mine") Helmut M. Timpelan, for this "unusual musical constellation" that was brought together specifically for this Benefit  Concert,: a group which I called Sonata Europa `a 4! We continued in a number of the Mini-Combimations from Solo over Duo, Trio and Quartet, performing diverse works from the late Renaissance: namely from the famous Organist and Cembalist of the "Papal Basilika in St. Peter in the Vatican" (Rome) Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi (1583 - 1643) followed by as his long time Trumpeting Duo-Partner, Girolamo Bonaventura Fantini (1600-1675)I We then performed works  from the Bohemian/Moravian Trumpeter and ComposerPavel Josef Vejvanowsky (1639-1693) his Sonata á 4 in g minor, followed by works of the High Baroque Era :J.S. Bach (1685.-1750) and finally G.F. Handel (1685-1756).

Turning to the the Classics we presented Solo and Duo works by Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805), W. A. Mozart (1756- 1791) and Josef Haydn (1732-1809) and quickly progressed to compositions from the early Romantic Period with original pieces from the Bohemian Trumpeter , and the "first" Professor of all time,  Josef Kail (1798-1871); the Mexican Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829-1869) andthe Frenchman Jean  B. L. Arban (1825-1889)..
Then came compositions from the late 19th and early 20th Century, namely from theAmerican Composer (and Star Soloist of john Philip Sousa's Band), Herbert Lincoln Clarke, with his The Debutante, the Spanish Composer Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909), the Rumanian Georges Ensescu (1881 -1955) his Legend, Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) his Nocturne from his Concerto in Eb and from the German, Paul Hindemith (1895 -1963) his epic and prophetic "Sonata 1939".

Works from the Ukrainian, Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020) and from two of my personal Composer "Friends" who wrote works dedicated to me personally, as well as for the great Ukrainian Trumpet Virtuoso Timofey Dokshitzer, namley from Valery Strukov (+2005) of Moscow, Russia and the former president of the Hochschule für Musik Bertold Hummel (+ 2002) of Würzburg, Germany.

In the final part of the evening we performed works by the famous Big-Band and Jazz Composer Duke Ellington (1899-1974) and last but not least America's Broadway and Modern Symphonic Musical Icons of American 20th Century Music, Mr. George Gershwin (1898-1937) his Rhapsody in Blue(from 1923) in a rendition from the world famousUkrainian Trumpet Timofey Dokshitzer and selcted Songs from Gershwin's Grand AmericanOpera/Musical, Porgey and Bess (from 1935)as well as from Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990) his original work for Trumpet and Piano, "Rondo for Lifey" and then a few very special arrangements written by us all and that we have conceptualised for our "Europa Sonata A `a 4  + One" musician constellation from Bernstein's own version of this "modern" Puertorican Opera/Musical  (a "Romeo and Juliette in NY, NY"),  what he called  West Side Story!
We added as spontaneoius Duo Encore (Trumpet and Saxophone) my favourite orginal and traditional New Orloeans Blues: "Mad about him, Sad without him, How can i be Glad with out him?"

 Our truly BROAD SPECTRUM MUSICAL OFFERING: Konzert for Kiev was, I believe something for each and everyone to enjoy!

I as usual moderated the whole concert (in both English and German) myself, so there was no need for any further "stuffy" written programmes or Stuffed-Tuxido moderatator.

We had TWO INVERALS breaks at  20:30  and ca. 21:45 so all had plenty of time to relax in the Entrance Hall, where once again one of my dear musican "friends", the Brazilian Singer Mauricio Mendes  performed in his quiet but elegant manner, on Acoustic Guitar and Singing origial Brazian Bozza Nova and Samba while quiet refreshments were consumed!

Anyone who knows me even a little, is immeadiately aware that I personally have a very robust Physical and Phycological nature, that is, I have never spent a night in the Hospital since my Life began in the small town of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada on a typically very cold Winters Night: January 31st, 1956.
You should please know too however, that I had repeatedly invited quite a number of other Artist and Musical  "Friends" (both young and old, Amateur and Professional and this from the Baroque and Classic to Jazz idioms) but due to their Covid Pandemic illnesses, I was forced to move this Concert Date a total of 3 times! 
And because several of my original Guests became serious ill, some Physically due to Covid some Psychologicaly, yes, also due to Covid ... and since All of us and I mean ALL of us are still suffering both emotionaly and certainly sociologicaly even today,... I am especially happy that this Concert finally happened, yes,.. and.without surgical masks!.

Still even though this was my Goog Bye Concert it was much more important is that WE ALL can help the Ukrainian refugees... since they needed help then, and NOW.
I wanted to and will specifically help the most vulnerable and defenceless of them all... the children and women and the elderly of the Ukraine who are now coming to Germany and Western Europe, yes some even to Canada. The generous people of Poland have already taken on over 3,000,000 desperate and seriously shocked Ukrainian people and more are coming!
I also have anumber of New and Vintage Brass (over 7 from Tuba to Cornet !) that I will contiue to be offering for refugee Children (and perhaps their "Opas" too?) to learn to play, as both "therapy and for their enjoyment" in 2023.
These people still need help BUT want to go "home" as soon as possible, so this only temporary... but VERY necessary!

So let's continue to help!

I thank GOD! (and I am quite sincere about this), for the truly extraordinary experiences of playing music, beginning at age 9 together with my Father Kenneth (on the Tuba), my older Brother, Donald (on the Slide Trombone) and two of my Sisters, Lezlie and Geraldine Lousie (on the Eb- Alto Horn and Bb Euphonium respectively) and this together with the Regina Salvation Army Brass Band, when peerforming in the both of the Sunday Morning Church Sevices (at 9:30 and 11:00 A.M.) in my home town of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Musically and emotionaly a very important and influencial experience indeed in my musical life!!

But at this point I should also thank my many creative and truly musically passionate Teachers and Musician Colleagues since 1965 (at age 9) and on up to my first European Solo-Trumpet Positions (at age 22) for their very generous contributions to my early musical life, which has since then and because of their efforts on my behalf, been full of productive and joyfull music making!

My first Piano and Organ Accompanist Mrs. Edith Chisholm of Regina Saskatchewan, my Father, Kenneth Leslie Steuart, my first and most important professional teachers Dr. John Harding of Chapel Hill North Carolina and Dr. Mel Carey of Berklee, California. From age 14, Prof. Dr. Dr. Fred W. Mills, (of the "Original" Canadian Brass Quintet), Frank Kaderabek of the Philadelphia Orchestra, Vincent Chicowitz of the Chicago Symphony, Mel Broiles of the New York Metropolitan Opera, Philip Jones Founder of the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and Principal of the Trinity College of Music, London, England and lastly Rolf Quinque of the Munich Philharmonic and Professor at the Richard Strass Conservatory in Germany.

Each of these musical personalities (and truly many more) contributed in specific and important ways to my early musical develpment and it is to them that I owe a huge debt of gratitude!

A Short Bio...

AUF DEUTSCH!?:

Der kanadische Solotrompeter Richard Carson Steuart trat schon im alter von zehn Jahren, nach nur einem Jahr Unterricht, als klassischer Trompetensolist im Fernsehen auf!
Neben anderen europäischen Auszeichnungen bestätigte der Gewinn des "Internationalen ARD Musikwettbewerbs" 1980 in München und 1981 des "Concours d'Exécution de Musique de Genève" (Genfer Internationaler Musikwettbewerb) sowie der
Gewinn des BMW-Musikpreises beim 2. Münchener Biennale "1990 Internationales Musik Festival" sein hohes künstlerisches Niveau als Solotrompeter.
Richard Carson Steuart ist ehemaliger Präsident der European Trumpet Guilde und Initiator und Direktor der European Brass Academy.
Außerdem ist er internationaler "Design Consultant" für Instrumenten herstellunger wie Yamaha (Hamamatzu, Japan) und Kanstul (Anaheim, California, USA). Durch seine firma LA TROMBA MUSIC PRODUCTS (Deutschland) ist er auch Designer und Hersteller seiner eigenen Trompeten- und Zubehör. Er veranstaltet internationale Meisterklassen und Konzerte weltweit und produziert seine eigenen DVDs u. CDs mit einem breiten Spektrum von Solo- und Ensemblekonstellationen - von Barock bis Jazz, ebenfalls unter seinem umfassenden LA TROMBA® Label und Markennamen.

Mit 11 Jahren gewann er den Kanadischen Bundeswettbewerb für klassischen Solotrompeten-Nachwuchs. Im selben Jahr me achte er seine erste Jazztournee als Solist in Begleitung einer professionelle Big-Band. Mit 14 erhält er bereits einen Lehrauftrag an der Universität seiner Heimatstadt Regina. Im gleichen jahr machte er eine Konzertreise nach London, England wo er u. a. The Messiah in Westminszter Abbey auführte.
Mit 15 erhielt er Solotrompeter stelle beim Regina Symphony Orchestra.
1976 wurde er mit 20 Jahren unter den Komponisten und
Dirigenten Aaron Copland zum Solotrompeter des Canadian-Chamber-Orchestra und National CBC-Concert Soloist ernannt.
Nachdem er den National Classical Music Festival sowie den CBC Fernseh-Solomusikwettbewerb (auch 1976) gewonnen hatte, zeichnete ihn das Canadian National Arts Council mit einer Reihe von "Arts Awards" (Stipendien) aus, mit denen er nach freien wahl, seine Privat- Meisterklassen-Studien finanzierten durfte. Zunächst war er in den USA bei Bläsersolisten des Philadelphia Orchestra (und studierte mit Voll Stipendium an der beruhmter Curtis Institute. 1977 studierte er in New York am Metropolitan und New York Opera. 1978 war er an der North Western University und bei dem Bläsersolisten des Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

1978 flog er nach England und schloss er seine
Privatstudien bei Philip Jones am Londoner Trinity College ab.
Im Sommer 1978 trat er als Solo Trompeter des Jeunesse Musicales "Orchestre Mondial" (Welt Orchestra) im Royal Albert Hall im rahmen
des Proms Concert wo Prince Charles zu gast war.
Im November des gleichen Jahres bekam er die Stelle des Solotrompeters an der Deutschen Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf. Frühjahr 1979 wurde er unter dem Dirigenten Eugen Jochum zum Solotrompeter der Bamberger Symphoniker berufen.
1983 wird den Posten als Dozent für Trompete und Barocktrompete sowie Barock-, Klassische- und Zeitgenossichekammermusik am Herman Zilcher Konservatorium für Musik der Stadt Würzburg (inzwischen Bayerisicher Hochschule für Musik) für ihm eröffnet. Dort war er Initiator der Jazzabteilung.
Deiser Lehrstuhl entstand in Kooperation mit dem Bayerischen Kultusministerium. Mit seinem Studenten unternähmt er noch wie vor
zalhreiche tournees und Aufnahmen u.a. in Italien, Deutschland, Österreich, Croatien und Solvenien.
1995 ubertrugen ihm die Universitätsdozenten Prof. Dr. Helmut Louis Debes und Prof. Dr. Rainer Goetz die musikalische Leitung für das
Musik-Kunst-Poesie-Projekt des Fachbereichs Kunstpädagogik der Universität Würzburg: Dialoge - Auf der Suche nach dem
Gesamtkunstwerk.Das Projekt beinhaltete zalhreiche "Live Performances" in der Neubaukirche Aula der Julius Echter Universität Würzburg. Hier aggierte er als Musikalsicherleiter, Trompentensolist und Produzent eines Bildbands mit CD beim Ergon-Verlag in Co-Produktion mit dem Bayerischen Rundfunk und La Tromba Music Productions.
Von September 2001 wurde Steuart "Lehrkraft für Besonderer
Aufgabe" und Freie Hauptamtlicher Dozent für Barocktrompete und Kammermusik an der Hochschule für Musik, Würzburg.
2014 bekam er dort eine weitere Dozentur für Orchestral-Blechblaskammermusik.

Richard Carson Steuart gibt zahlreiche Konzerte und Internationale Meisterklassen und ist als Gast-Professor an Universitäten und
Musikkonservatorien in ganz Europa, USA und Russland tätig. Er ist Namensgeber, Mitgründer und war von 1979 bis 1987 1. Solotrompeter des "German Brass" Ensembles.
1983 gründete er sein eigenes Blechbläserensemble "Munich Brass" mit Sitz im Bayerischen Rundfunk, München mit wem er Zalhreiche
CDs, Konzerte im Fehnseh und Radio Aufnahm. Mit dem Ensemble trat er bei wichtigen Politische verantstalungen auf u.a. bei der ersten G7/8 Konferenz in München.
Herr Steuart leitet ebenfalls das von ihm gegründete "Fürstbischöfliche Bläserconsortium zu Würzburg"; das auf historischen sowie zeitgenössischen Instrumenten konzertierende "European Baroque" Ensemble; sowie das "Deutsche Kammersolisten" Streichorchester.
Seine musikalischen Interessen führen ihn mit Persönlichkeiten der verschiedensten musikalischen Gattungen zusammen, wie dem Big-Band Leiter Peter Herbolzheimer und Jazz Saxophonist Charlie Mariano, dem Liedermacher Konstantin Wecker sowie den internationalen Filmkomponisten und Hollywood-Filmmusik-Oscar-Preisträgern Michel LeGrand und Hans Zimmer.
 

Many important musical experinces for me, took place as I was still very young (much of it long before going to the USA at 20 years of age) or coming to Europe (at 22 years of age) but also and certainly after becoming the Solo-Trumpeter of the German Opera in Düsseldorf (in 1978) and then later as Soloist and Solotrumpeter of the German Brass Ensemble (1979-1987) paralell to my duties as Solotrumpet of the continually "world touring" Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (1979-1983) ... at that time regarded to be the "Unofficial Ambassadorial-Orchestra" of the West German Government and highly representatives of it's "Musical Culture".

_{Here, for your possible interest, is a special and very exciting "historical" recording from 1981,
when I was the young Solo-Trumpeter of the "Bamberger Symphoniker"}

Live from the Grand Concert Hall of the NHK in Tokio, Japan.

YOUTUBE:
BRUCKNER'S 8TH SYMPNONY LIVE IN TOKIO in 1981 with Eugen Jochum Conducting:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Bamberg+symphony+Euegen+Jochum&client=firefox-b-d&ei=qgOzZPakCMGP9u8PwceRqAo&ved=0ahUKEwj2oavVyJGAAxXBh_0HHcFjBKUQ4dUDCA8&oq=Bamberg+symphony+Euegen+Jochum

That this Video is still posted after almost 40 years!... is a tribute in itself for it's high historical importance and intensive musical qualities!
This work was dedicated by Bruckner to his greatest Symphonic rival of that time, the then recently deceased Prof. Richard Wagner.
Please listen closely to the end of the first Mvmt and look at Maestro Jochum's face as he guides us all (and me too) through Bruckner's Call to the "Last Judgement" for Wagner: with four trumpets (or Horsemen of the Appocolist?) Blowing "Full Blast" and me (actually trying to rock the 3 older "cats" through this simple but achetypically intensive "riff").
He's not at all sure I am going to make it to end since I started the passage FULL THROTTLE but as always, the "great master" believed in me and knew that as always I was playing like there wa is NO TOMORROW (and after all, that makes all the difference!).
What a great work... full of Heavenly Music and at the same time forcing the listener to take a deep look into the Depths of HELL itself!
We always played with all our hearts in that "band" (like the then "new and very young first trombonist" Reinhold Schäffler and Red Haired and bushy moustached Solo Hornist Wolfgang Gaag (with whom I had just won a competition in Tokio (together with Enrique Crespo) and with whom we thereafter formed the "original" and truly special German Brass... it was first as a Trio by the way).
Wolfgang is still a power-house "Bull" of  player, playing like he had 2 Horns in his hand (or on his head?) and not just one... here he's leading his whole group of 8 Horns to their highest endevor and achievement!
Don't forget you have fill that huge NHK Grand Hall (it seats 3,500!) And OF COURSE and not to forget to mention Otto Winter (Oboe) Karl Dörr (1. Clarinet) and Gunter Pohl (1.Flute) and George Klüsch (1. Bassoon), Nobuco Okada (Solo Viola) our Tom Selick on the Tymps (David Punto) and the great Violinist and long time Concert-Master (Walter Forchert) leading his String wonderfull Section! Look at that Beard wow... badass!!! and way back in the early 80s no less! Truly a World Class Concert-Master!
And the guys in may section: Heinz Wolf (3rd Trumpet) Horst Werner (not Adolf Scherbaum) 1 /3 Trumpet and my good and long time true friend Karl Schuster 2 Trumpet (the best musician in the section... and who wept bitterly when I left the orchestra in 1983!!!... a really great guy and very fine trumpeter.
We all played Bb Trumpets for Bruckner: me, my Schilke B1L and the others "Augsburg" Scherzers. (mit Schmetter-Kranze!)
And all of us playing like it could be Maestro Jochen's very Last Concert: with a true respect and for him and Anton Bruckner and respect for each other's attempts to go "beyond ourselves" in devoted service of this
GREAT and GODLY MUSIC!
AND just look how Jochen TRULY knows what this is all about and looks straight at me and sucks up his whole energy to help me ... he even (almost) rips out his own jaw to help me make that last "grand statement" in the very last Phrase of this Monumental Work (despite the poor intonation and weakening "touring embourchers" all around the Brass section... it was after a 20 Hour flight from Frankfurt over Ankorage, Alaska to Tokio and right after a 4 grueling Hour rehearsal just before the Concert!!!... THAT sorts the men out from the boys... I'm telling!
As I mentioned this epic 8th Symphony of Anton Bruckner was dedicated to Richard Wagner (no less!) after his receent death!That's why there are those strange but well played  "Wagner Tubas" in this very special work! (Here with "the other" Tom Selik of the band at that time, Reinhold Müller on the 1. Wagner Tuba (a fine guy and great photographer too!) and of course my good friend and great Low Brass player, Georg Ratichuk on the Bb Bass (Kaiser) Tuba!

Of course the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra was not the only great Orchestra of that time that Eugen Jochen Conducted.
Those excellent Concertgebouw-players from from Amsterdam in the seventies and eighties are also to be seen in now "Historical Videos" with Grand Master, Eugen Jochen conducting!
You might want to also see them too playing the 7th of Bruckner... (one of our Bread and Butter Symphonies in Bamberg back then, when "on Tour" throught out the entire world and as I said, at that time the unofficial "German Ambassadorial Orchestra", heavily sponsored by Mercedes Benz and the Goethe Institute. We also played amoung many others the Grand Symphonic Orchestral works of P. I. Tchaikowsky, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner and very often the fabulous Tone Poems of Richard Strauss.
For a good part of the time I was the ONLY Solo Trumpet...one of only 4 trumpets in Bamberg from  (1979-1983) ... no rest for wicked back then... and "Ya gadda pay ya dues if ya gonna play the Blues and you know it don't come easy!)
It's still moving for me and wonderful to see all those great Concertgebouw-players from the seventies in a video with the fantastic 1st Trumpet, Masseurs on the C trumpet!
AND BE SURE to take a listen too to the Bruckner's 4th with Gergiev conducting the Munich Philharmonic in the Munich "Frauen Kirchen" (Posted 09.01.2020), what an accustic! and what a great and balanced trumpet section! A beautiful recording from you TRULY fantastic Bavarian TV/RadioTechnicians!!!! Bravo to all of you Ladies and Gentelmen!
 

I can vividly remember playing as guest 1st Trumpet Off-Stage in Mahler`s "Symphony of a Thousand", with the Munich Phil., back when in the 90's they performed in the old Gastteig in Munich. Loren Maasel guest conducting. Gaag played first horn and Uwe Komischke and Eric Renner doubled the first trumpet part.
Those were the days!

In July of 2019 I performed for a third time (since 2000) as Featured Concert Artist and gave aswell a Master Class Lecturer at the last International Trumpet Guild / “ITG” Conference held in Miami FL, USA, only 6 months before the Covid Pandemic took hold of much of our Concert activities for the past 2 years.

Now, a wise man once said "no man is an Island" !... especially when he or she has "real performace problems" and in case you didn't know: when Louis Armstrong had problems he asked his mentor "King" Oliver... Miles Davis had Clarke Terry and "Dizzy" Gillespe to turn to when things were going worng, Rafael (Ralf) Méndez had Herbert L. Clarke, Roy Hargrove had Wynton Marsallis, Edward H. Tarr had Adolf "Bud" Herseth.... to ask questions of... when they needed help!!! and I personally could literally "pick up the telephone" (indeed a wonderfull invention!) any time and talk with Dr.Dr. Edward H. Tarr, Frank Kaderabek, Vincent Chicowitz, Michael Laird, Fred Mills, Venjamin Margolin, John Harding, Maurice Murphy (and the list goes on and on of those that I could call for a short but always serious talk) to receive great career advise and/or, when things were quite simply going a little "wrong" at times way back then... due to stress, illness or age) and especially when I was radically changing my embouchure and teeth positioning (1985-1987) when I could call the great Philip Jones of London England to ask what HE thinks!
Or even when looking for another (better?) Horn or needed advise about a new Mouthpiece, or about endurance, had tounging problems, flexiblity or range problems, or was just trying to figure why I still couldn't play that stupid "Double High C" (after all those years!!!) ... and "why the hell" everybody else, besides me, thought that THAT was somehow important,...huh!? ;-)) well here's a short "a side" regarding that mith:
Mason Jones, 45 Years Solohornist of the Philadelphia Orchestra (under amoung other Conductor-Legends the great Eugen Ormandy), said to me once after a Orchestral Brass-Sectional Class he had lead in the Curtis Institute in 1976 ..." Richard, please don't try to play too high on the Trumpet you have such a beautiful tone... and like every other instrument, the Trumpet sounds best in the middle register!" And he was and still is right!
Funny though, that was the very year they filmed the first "Rocky" picture, yes some of it at least right there in Phili and with music from the unforgotten... yes "unforgettable" High-Note Genius, Mr. Maynard Ferguson of Montreal, Canada...with it's his "Baroque" based (introduction... stollen from Montiverdi or was it Bendinelli?) m Film Music.
This was his Pop Chart Breakthrough!: "Gonna Fly (HIGH) Now!"
I even had the great fortune to have talked to Maynard and this completely alone, about mouthpiece and horn(s) and not just once,... but twice!
The first time it was in 1972 in Vancouver... back Stage when he was "warming up". It was around midnight at the now defunked "Bellevidere Jazz Festival" and getting late... he was warmimg up in a back-stage room when I walked straight in and said "hello"....
He was the greatest and most humble guy and even let me stick my finger in his mouthpiece to "physically" messure the cup depth! Wow!... when I think back... who would allow that now a days!?! Increadible!
The second time was a good 35 years later in Bremen, Germany after a concert I had given with Guitar. Maynard was lucklily in the same Hotel as I playing his own Concerts but in another venue.
We talked this time about other "more important matters" as mouthpieces t.. i.e. good Wine and good Food and "the Good Life" as a musician in general! A great guy, Maynard!

BUT honestly now... who do you have to ask for suggestions as to YOUR important "trumpet specific" problems? (and hopefully more importantly "musical" questions than "what was Maynard's mouthpiece REALLY like?") or to simply but seriously "compare notes" or specific ideas with an experienced, broad spectrum musician?
...the bottom line IS:
If YOU have real problems or just simple but honest questions, be it from breathing techniques to emboucher development, trumpets and mouthpiece selection over study books and performance literature, or even have your own personal suggestions and contributions as to how to make this La Tromba Music Website an especially positive experience for you AND your fellow students or even Professional Colleagues, please feel free to go to "Contact" and leave me your comments and/or question(s)
...no worries, I'll get back to you, for sure!...

Or, better still, just call here and make an appoinment (as I mentioned earlier I love that Scotsman Alexander Graham Bell and his incredible invention: The Telephone!!!..to come by and see me personally in my humble but friendly:

La Tromba Music Productions "Studio" here in the HOFSTRASSE 10,
97070 Wuerzburg, Germany.
_{Telephone:
0049 (0)931 35 36 574}

_{Dr. Klaus Linsenmeyer, Organ; Carmen Fuggiss, Soprano and myself as Trio}

_{"on Tour in Germany 2017"}  

A little additional INFO regarding my person, if it interests you:

I was born on January 31st 1956 in Weyburn Saskatchewan, the final child of 5 from my Mother Ida Augusta Carson and Father Kenneth Leslie Steuart. I grew up in the Capital of the Provence of Saskatchewan, Regina.

My mother's family were farmers of Irish / Scotisch decent and my Father's of "noble" Scottish decent... hense the  lesser known French spelling of my and his last name Steuart, actually a spelling dating, at least as far back, to Mary, Queen of Scots and her "upbringing" in France!

<sub>Here's a little "Biographical Info." about me, that you can just skip, if you are busy or get bored with things like this or simply just want to "cut to the chase!!!"...


I was born on January 31st, 1956 in Weyburn, Sasakatchewan Canada and moved with my family to Regina in 1960. My first intensive musical instruction began in 1965, on my 9th birthday under the tutelage of my father, Kenneth Leslie Steuart, a Sask-Tel Telecommunications Engineer and a serious brass-playing hobby musician. He bought my first Cornet, a used but well taken care of, "Nickel Silver Conn Constellation" that cost him 360 Bucks... and back then... that was lot of money to invest in a "little kid" who had never played note on any instrument before in his life. The great English Novelist, Charles Dickens would have called this "Great Expections", which in any case demanded to be lived up to!
My first public performance was in 1966 as "Guest Cornet Soloist" in the Rosemont United Church in Regina, together with the very special Mrs. Edith Chisholm, a wonderfull musician and a very gracious and truly patient (especially with me) "Lady" who was to become as my regular accompaniest on both the Organ and Piano for Concerts of all sorts, including those for the LIONS, ROTARY, SCHREINERS etc. Service  Clubs, Regional Televison Apperances and even perfomance for the Govenor General in Saskachewan House This all began was after only one year of any kind of musical studies and continued over the for next few years. All this was infcat mostly due to my Father's ambition, and not mine, in fcat I hated the attention as always neverous... although I quickly leanred never to show it.
My beloved Father had recognised my innate talent, because I'm told, I was continually "singing" as a young child, especially when enjoying some exciting event or even when eating, in this case unconsciously  "humming" the whole time. Therefore took it upon himself to support my "natural talents" as much as possible.
He sat with me every time I practised the Cornet and after six months of "daily lessons with him" brought me to study with Dr. John Harding who was my teacher for almost one and one half years after that! My father attended every lesson with Dr. Harding... sitting quietly in the corner, taking notes to help remind me what Dr. Harding had said druing my lesson with him.
That's a total of 730 lesson in two years.
It is mostly because of the intensive support that I recieved from my father that became a repeated Class A-Open First Prize winner in the Regina and Saskatchewan Provincial Music festivals for the Cornet and Trumpet starting at the unheard of age 11!!! I was even the Junior First Prize Winner (for students 16 years and under) of the Canadian National Music Festival in 1967, performing amoung other virtuoso works from the classical Trumpet repertoire, the Hummel Trumpet Concerto in E-flat Major (1803).
At age 11, I undertook my first quasi "Jazz" tour as featured "junior" Trumpet Soloist as a part of the 1967 Canadian National Centenary Concert Festivities. Here I was accompanied by a full professional Big Band, led by Dr. Harding, who was / is both an excellent Jazz and Classical Solo trumpeter, as well a fine Arranger and Big Band Leader.
When I was12 years old, Mr. Harding left Canada to return to the U.S. of A. as Professor for trumpet at the U.N.C.C. In North Carolina and I therefore began to study the Cornet with Profressor Dr. Mel Carey of Berklee California. Dr. Carey was an excellent Hornist AND Concert Pianist.
He insisted that I start to learn the Piano, Clarinet, Oboe as well as Musical History, Theory and Harmony at the Conservatory of Music in Regina.
Involved aswell in various musical groups in Regina and throughout Saskatchewan from the very beginning of my studies, I performed as Solo Cornetist with the Salvation Army Brass, the Regina Police Boys, the Royal Canaian Legion Bands and the Saskatchewan Youth Band (then lead by Mr. Herb Jefferys).
I was the First Trumpet and Soloist and 1. Assistant Conductor to Lloyd Blackmann of the Regina Inter- Collegiate and Saskatchewan Youth Orchestras in 1970 and a co- founder of the University of Saskatchewan Brass Quintet (with my father on the Tuba, Dr. Mel Carey on the Horn, Bob Gregg, on theTrombone and David Bryant, as 2nd Trumpet) performing throughout Saskatchewan in Concerts as well as "Live" on both Regional Television and for recordings for CBC Radio, Regina.
From the age of 14, I also performed as Solo-Trumpet of the University of Saskatchwan Symphonic Concert Band under Dr. John Steinegger and with the "Jazz Big-Band" of the University of Saskatchewan with Randy Herrmann as it's "Leader". In 1970, at the age of 14, I had accepted my first Trumpet Teaching- Assistantship to Dr. Mel Carey and was given my own personal Teaching and Practise Studio at the University of Saskatchewan, Regina Campus. 
Having previously also studied Saxophone (and the Clarinet) at the Regina Conservatory, I began to teach beginner Clarinet and Saxophone for the Regina City School District.
From 1970 to 1975, I was Solo Trumpeter and featured Solist of both the National Youth Chamber and National Youth Symphony Orchestras of Canada under Conductors such as the Austrian born, Georg Tintner and Japanese born KazuyoshiAkiama performing extended Summer Concert tours with these orchestras to among other major Canadian cities: Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa, Quebec and Montreal. The Brass Instrument  coaches during this time were amoung other, Fred Mills (and the entire Canadian Brass Quintet), Theodore Weisse (Solo-Trumpeter of New York City Opera): Vincent Chicowitz (2. Trumpeter of the Chicago Symphony)  Eugene Rittich (Solo Horn of the Toronto Symphony), Richard Erb Bass trombone of the St. Louis Symphony). I had become a member of the Regina Symphony Orchestra 1969 at age 13, and advanced to the Solo Trumpet position in the 1971/72 Season at age 15 under Boris Brott. This position I held 'til 1976.
During this time had the great fortune to perform as both Soloist with the Regina Symphony and as Duo Partner with amoung others the Internationally renown Musicians, the Canadian operatic contralto, Maurine Kathleen Stewart Forrester.</sub>

_{In 1976, at age 20 and already CBC Radio Soloist and Solo-trumpeter of Canadian Chamber Orchestra under the famous American Composer and Conductor Aaron Copland, I won both the First Prize at the Canadian National Music Festival in Toronto and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio and Television Classical Solo-Instrumental Competition - the so called "CBC Talent Festival" (and this for all Symphonic Wind-Instruments). Consiquently I perfomed for Live for Radio and Televison as Soloist with amoung others the orchestra, the Vancouver CBC, the Edmonton Symphony, the Winnipeg CBC Symphony, and the Saskatoon Chamber and Symhpony Orchestras respectively with amoung other conductors John Avison and Boris Brott.}

<sub>Thereafter I was accepted into the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, USA receiving a full 4 year Scholarship. I had competed for and was awarded the first of three consecutive International Study Grants (1976-1978) from the Arts Council of Canada, with which I studied first in Philadelphia (76/77), then Chicago and in turn in New York (77/78) with the foremost members of the Symphony and Opera Orchestras of those major American cultural centers. My teachers were most secifically Frank Kaderabek (Solo Trumpet of the Philadelphia, Orchestra, the 2.Trumpet and Professor at North Western Unversity in Chicago, Vincent Chicowitz and Mr. Mel Broiles, Solo Trumpet of the Metroploitan Opera of New York.

Travelling to Europe in the summer of 1978 as Solo Trumpet of the World Youth Orchestra, I remaind and decided to completed my studies in London with Philip Jones, founder of the Large Brass Ensemble bearing his name and later Principal of the Trinity College; London. Thereafter I journeyed to Munich to Study with with Mr. Rolf Quinque of Munich Philharmonic and Head of the Brass Deptment of the Richard Strauss Conservatory.
The beginning of November I competed for and was awarded the position of Solo-Trumpeter of the "German Opera on the Rhein" in Düsseldorf under GMD Bernhard Klee.
In February of 1979 I also accepted the position as Solo-Trumpeter of the world touring, "Bamberg Symphoniker" under Eugen Jochen.
Thereafter I competed for and won the Top Prizes in both the German- ARD (1980) and Swiss- SRF (1981) International Radio and Television Competitions for the Trumpet as Solo Instrument.

My early musical accomplishments in Germany were officially honoured by the Bavarian State Ministry of Culture when a special position was created for me in 1983 at their Music Conservatory / State University of Music in Wuerzburg, Northern Bavaria where I continue to teach both Historical and Modern Trumpet as well as Chamber Music even today.

As the co-founder of among other high profile ensembles, the Original  German Brass Ensemble (1979), here an early example of a  TV Recording from 1987 :</sub>   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88O55-GWWk4 , <sub>with Gunter Beetz, Hans Wolf, Matti Höfs and my own Munich Brass (1983) (with 4 Orfeo-Munich BR/La Tromba recorings, my European Baroque Ensemble  (1989) and "Prince Bishop of Wuerzburg's Wind Ensemble" (1999).


In 2003 I was elected President of the European Trumpet Guild.
However due to serious previous finacial mismanagment in the internal structures of the ETG I decided not to continue as President and this even after having personally financed the entire ETG / ITG Conference at my "home" University the Julius Maximillian (Echter) here in Würzburg. I was attempting to save Ed Tarr's sinking ship. It was not to be.
Still I may very well re-kindle that "flame" in Europe and sail a new ETG Ship in the coming years?!? Any one on board with me? Give me a call... I need a Computer Smart Secretary and honest and trust worthy Treasurer (I don't want to have anything to do with money...no, no! that is except for making my own donations to make the ship float... especially for YOUTH Support) and a Vice-President who has his OWN ideas besides mine and wants to really do some work. Common "cats" it's worth the effort!</sub>

"Spanish-Blue" Duo Concert at the FRIST International Trumpet Guild (ITG) Conference in Banff, Alberta, Canada:

Richard Carson Steuart Trumpets (Canada/ Germany) and Daniel Bolshoy Classical Guitar (Montreal) at the International Trumpet Guild Conference in Banff, Canada in June 2008.
The "Spanish-Blue" Duo performed a selection of Hespanic and Latin  works (from Classic to Jazz) and exhibited some of the finest music making at this conference. Mr. Bolshoy performed on acoustic guitar but tastefully amplified allowing Mr. Steuart to play with a full dynamic spectrum on a variety of trumpets and mutes. Mr. Steuart played passionately and in a vocal style and deftly navigated the lyrical and extremely technical lines that were demanded throughout the repertoire performed. Both musicians played with sensitivity placing musicality above all else.
- Mark Boren
ITG Review Team "Banff 2008"