Anyone who tries to make a career as a soloist on the trumpet is taking a calculated risk. Trumpeters don’t get asked to do recitals as often as singers, pianists and violinists do; and they don’t ...

A founding member of the Empire Brass, the trumpeter played with a lustrous tone and extraordinary technique. At age 19, he was the youngest... Trumpeter Rolf Smedvig, praised for his beautiful tone ...

WEST STOCKBRIDGE >> Trumpeter Rolf Smedvig, one of the youngest musicians ever hired by the Boston Symphony and co-founder of the famed Empire Brass, died suddenly at his longtime home in West ...

Considering the family he comes from, it's not surprising that Rolf Smedvig began to play trumpet early. "My mother played violin, my father was a piano player and also played clarinet, one sister ...

The Empire Brass returned to the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater Sunday night in what has to be one of the supreme concerts of the year. The group (Rolf Smedvig and Marc Reese, trumpets; Michelle ...

“We played at Raleigh-Durham last night. My God, we rocked. The place was sold out. The crowd was great, from 4 years old to like 94. This is classical rock ‘n’ roll. If you can’t relate to that, you ...

Ralf Gothóni is an idealist in pragmatist’s clothing. The Finnish conductor, pianist, festival director and composer is in town briefly for this weekend’s concerts with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra ...

The Northwestern School of Music has a lot to toot its horn about these days. Ethan Bensdorf, a Music senior, won first prize in the inaugural Armando Ghitalla Trumpet Competition. “All 18 of the ...

The Empire Brass has an ambitious agenda for Friday's concert at Music at Gretna. "We're going to take a five-hundred-year romp through history, starting with the Renaissance and on to the present day ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Don’t show up for Friday’s Empire Brass concert expecting a quiet, classical music experience. “We’re going to rock out,” said Rolf Smedvig, a founding member of the brass ...