WHO IS NGTC?

2024 Artists

Alex Freund is professor of trumpet at Georgia State University and Second Trumpet at The Atlanta Opera. He is a founding member of the world-renowned quintet M5 Mexican Brass. Born in Weimar, Germany, Alex studied at the Berlin University of Arts with Robert Platt and Konradin Groth from the Berlin Philharmonic. He obtained a post degree from the University of Music and Theatre Saar, where he studied with Peter Leiner, and a Doctorate from McGill University in Montreal, where he studied with Richard Stoelzel.

Alexander Freund

 

The acoustic and electro-acoustic music of Iranian composer/sound designer Bahar Royaee has been acclaimed as “succeed(ing) as a poetic incantation, brimming with ideas and colors” (Classical Voice North America) and “haunting” (Boston Arts Review).

Working in NYC and Boston, Bahar has received a Fromm Music Foundation Commission (2022), as well as honors such as the Pnea, National Sawdust Hildegard, the Roger Session Memorial Composition and Korourian Electroacoustic Music Awards.

Bahar writes music for various genres from opera, theater and film to chamber music. Her work has been performed by luminaries such as Claire Chase, Suzanne Farrin, International Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble der gelbe Klang, Jack Quartet, Loadbang, Contemporary Insights of Leipzig, Guerrilla Opera, Longleash. Kimia Hesabi, and Splice Ensemble.

Significant chamber music performances include Ultraschall Berlin with Muriel Razavi (2023), ICE Festival Germany with ensemble Tempus Konnex (2022), Berlin Prize for Young Artists with Adam Woodward (2023), Tehran Electroacoustic Music Festival (2022) and Time:Spans Festival (2020) with International Contemporary Ensemble and Suzanne Farrin.

Royaee is an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College and Artist-in-Residence at Longy School of Music. Her composition mentors have included Marti Epstein, Felipe Lara, Suzanne Farrin and Jason Eckardt.

Bahar Royaee

 

Trumpeter Pasi Pirinen is Professor of Brass Instruments at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and Principal Trumpet of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. 

Pirinen started his instrumental studies in his homeland of Finland and later graduated from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London where he studied under Prof. John Miller.

In 1998 Pirinen won 1st Prize in the ITG Ellsworth Smith Trumpet Competition, in 1987 2nd Prize in the Concertino Praga Competition and was chosen 'Brass Player of the Year' by the Lieksa Brass Festival in Finland in 1999.

As an active soloist Pirinen has played first performances of many contemporary works, including concertos by composers Erik Bergman, Jouni Kaipainen, Harri Wessman and Anthony Plog. 

Pirinen frequently teaches masterclasses in the worlds leading conservatoires and has served as a member of jury in several international trumpet and brass instrument competitions.

He is a Yamaha Artist.

Pasi Pirinen

 

Marta Śniady is composer born in 1986 in Pabianice, Poland, based in Wroclaw. She graduated with honors composition with prof. Bronislaw Kazimierz Przybylski (2010) at the Music Academy in Lodz. She studied electronic music under the direction of dr hab. Krzysztof Knittel for two years during the Postgraduate Studies of Film Music, Computer Music and Audio-visual Arts in the Music Academy and Schiller Film School in Lodz. In 2019 she finished Advanced Postgraduate Diploma studies in composition with Simon Steen-Andersen and Niels Rønsholdt at The Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus. She participated in several composition workshops conducted among others by Simon Steen-Andersen, Chaya Czernowin, Jennifer Walshe, Rebecca Saunders and Johannes Kreidler.

Her works have been performed in Poland, Denmark, Germany, Spain and Sweden at such festivals as e. g. Warsaw Autumn, Musica Electronica Nova, Sacrum Profanum, Umami Live, Frau Musica (nova), Pulsar, Klang, Musica Estranha. She worked with such ensembles as Ensemble Garage, Kwartludium, ElletroVoce, Spółdzielnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, New Music Orchestra, Njyd, Hashtag Ensemble and others. She is also an author of music for theatre plays and audio-visual installations.

She was a prize winner of XI Tadeusz Ochlewski’s Composers’ Competition in Cracow and the Composition Competition organized on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Academy of Music in Gdansk.

She is a board member of International Music Festival Warsaw Autumn from 2017 and a recipient of scholarship from the Minister of Culture in Poland (2017).

She works at the Music Academy in Lodz, where she finished her PhD program (2015).

Marta Śniady

 

Dr. Marisa Youngs is currently the Trumpet Professor at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she teaches applied trumpet lessons, directs the Trumpet Ensemble, and teaches various academic courses. In 2021, she received the Adjunct Professor Excellence in Teaching Award from the Dean’s Council of the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Marisa has performed with many ensembles throughout the United States, Europe, and Australia. She recently performed with the International Pride Orchestra for their inaugural concert in San Francisco. Marisa is currently principal trumpet of the Rock Hill Symphony, third trumpet in the Fayetteville Symphony, and regularly subs with the Charlotte Symphony. A proponent of local music education, Marisa founded the Carolina Trumpet Choir, a community trumpet ensemble for professionals, amateurs, and high school trumpet players in the Carolinas. She is also an advocate for new music and currently serves as chair of the New Works Committee for the International Trumpet Guild. To learn more about her work, please visit www.marisayoungs.com.

Marisa Youngs

 

Composer Donald Grantham is the recipient of numerous awards and prizes in composition, including the Prix Lili Boulanger, the Nissim/ASCAP Orchestral Composition Prize, First Prize in the Concordia Chamber Symphony’s Awards to American Composers, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, and First Prize in the National Opera Association’s Composition Competition.  His wind ensemble music has been recognized with three first prize awards in the NBA/William D. Revelli Composition Competition, and with two first prize awards in the ABA/Ostwald Band Composition Contest.  His music has been praised for its “elegance, sensitivity, lucidity of thought, clarity of expression and fine lyricism” in a Citation awarded by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.  His works have been performed by the orchestras of Cleveland, Dallas, Atlanta and the American Composers Orchestra among many others, and he has fulfilled commissions in media from solo instruments to opera.  His music is published by Piquant Press, Peer-Southern, Warner Bros., G. Schirmer and E. C. Schirmer, and many of his works have been commercially recorded.  Grantham  resides in Austin Texas and is Frank C. Erwin, Jr. Centennial Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin.  With Kent Kennan, he is coauthor of THE TECHNIQUE OF ORCHESTRATION (Routledge).

Donald Grantham

 
 

Former Trumpet Artists

Kate Amrine

Kate Amrine

John Armstrong

John Armstrong

Alexis Morales Barrientos

Alexis Morales Barrientos

Lucas Balslov

Lucas Balslov

Peter Bond

Peter Bond

Mary Elizabeth Bowden

Mary Elizabeth Bowden

Shaun Branam

Shaun Branam

Steven Cunningham

Steven Cunningham

Brandon Dicks

Brandon Dicks

Gabriel DiMartino

Gabriel DiMartino

Gareth Flowers

Gareth Flowers

Gillian Huff

Gillian Huff

Courtney D. Jones

Courtney D. Jones

Garrett Klein

Garrett Klein

Andy Kozar

Andy Kozar

Douglas Lindsey

Douglas Lindsey

Stephen McLean Jr.

Stephen McLean Jr.

Robert Murray

Robert Murray

Raquel Samayoa

Raquel Samayoa

Christopher Scanlon

Christopher Scanlon

Kate Umble Smucker

Kate Umble Smucker

Jonas Wiik

Jonas Wiik

Former COMPOSition artists

Viet Cuong

Viet Cuong

James M. David

James M. David

Kevin Day

Kevin Day

Alan Hankers

Alan Hankers

Nathan Hudson

Nathan Hudson

Molly Joyce

Molly Joyce

Howie Kenty

Howie Kenty

Sky Macklay

Sky Macklay

Marc Mellits

Marc Mellits

Andrew Rodriguez

Andrew Rodriguez

Sheila Silver

Sheila Silver

Liza Sobel

Liza Sobel

Roger Zare

Roger Zare