Les Trompettes de Lyon

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In an effort to feature the best trumpet playing in the world, please put your hands together for Les Trompettes de Lyon!

Les Trompettes de Lyon is not just your average brass group…but more a stage show that is unabashedly entertaining and humorous. These musicians have progressively let their taste for quirky fun run loose on stage raising the question “are these trumpeters who were taught to act or are they actors who have picked up the trumpet?”

The “Trompettes de Lyon” instrumental ensemble was born in 1989 from the meeting of five musicians trained in the academies of music and universities of Lyon. Today, the very same musicians still compose that quite unique music group, whose main originality resides in the wide range of instruments they play: depending on which sonorities they wish to get, they can run the gamut from the piccolo to the bass trumpet.

The Ensemble de Trompettes de Lyon uses an assortment of instruments, about ten instruments of all shapes and sizes (piccolo trumpet, D trumpet, B flat trumpet, C trumpet, cornet, bugle, tenor bugle, B flat bass trumpet and C bass trumpet.) It is stunning the way each ensemble member play several instruments, each with polish and skill. They now create shows with the complicity of the art director François Rollin, which are real wandering between music and theatre.

Bruce was a member of the faculty at the University of Northern Iowa, School of Music in Cedar Falls from 1969 until his retirement in 1999. He has performed with many well-known entertainers such as Bob Hope, Jim Nabors, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, Anita Bryant, Carman Cavalara, Victor Borgie, the Four Freshman, Blackstone the Magician, Bobby Vinton and John Davidson.

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2 thoughts on “Les Trompettes de Lyon”

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    I am waiting from many days to see their show. Les Trompettes de Lyon are great inspiration to me. I’m a beginner in trumpet playing. I wish they should achieve more and entertain more audience.

    • Bruce Chidester

      The best way to get them noticed and more concerts is for all of us to talk about them to our friends and let them know you like their playing.

      Many years ago we used to follow a brass quintet call the New York Brass Quintet. Then can the Canadian Brass Quintet and now we have several fine groups to listen to.

      When you have time, send them an Email and tell them how much they have affected your playing. They would appreciate it.

      Have a great Christmas and the very best to you and your trumpet playing.

      Bruce Chidester
      The Branson Trumpet Ensemble.

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