Tamás, Trumpet and Table Tennis Berlin Philharmonic principal trumpet Tamás Velenczei joins Sarah Willis live from Berlin on the Horn Hangouts. With a special appearance from the Pacific Music Festival Trumpet Alumni from all over the world, this is definitely a Hangout not to be missed! Berlin, March 2017
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[Music] one two one [Music] hi everyone welcome back to the horn Hangouts I hope everything’s working for you this is the first horn hangout on the new website so we’re actually very nervous to see if everything’s going to work please write in and tell me if it’s going to work and if you if you can see anything we know that there are people watching from all over the world again
Australia Africa um South Africa today for the first time Israel uh China Canada USA Germany UK it’s amazing we just love all this globalness so so without further too I am going to welcome our star guest from today tamash re or in Hungary they say Valen tamash Val tamash hi everybody Welcome to the horn Hangouts thank you very much it took a while to get you here yes
I’m happy to be here thank you for the invitation I’m happy you’re here too and so many people are out here here um saying they’re happy to see you you know ayyanan guys is looking and saturo and Yuki are watching in Japan um and we’re hoping your daughter Dora will will tune in at some point might be might be online this would be nice um so people are already asking do send us in your questions for tamash
I will get as many um to as many questions as I can but first i’m going to ask some questions because tamas you know as a as a journalist you research everyone you interview so I go online I Google you there’s lots of you playing but there’s not much about you is this on purpose it’s maybe on purpose
I I don’t to hide anything but um I’m not a person who writes everything or post post pictures all over all over the time but uh anyway but you’re here so I’m going to find out so the first thing we have to start off with like everybody always does is people want to know um why you start started the trumpet now
I heard a rumor you only started the trumpet because you didn’t want to carry any heavy instrument is this true that was one of three I don’t like heavy or heavy stuff to carry yeah uh but U the other reason was I was starting my elementary school there was a wonderful teacher he she was teaching us how to sing and how to play blockfield and she noticed that
I was I was picking up the music on the quickly how old were you I was was six six and we had a lesson with her every week Al every every day six days a week and then she recommended me to start with a real instrument a real instrument so you say recorder is not a real instrument she didn’t think so yeah
I went to the uh music music school and then I got a list yeah we have the the following instruments available and I chose the trumpet because I I I I never heard the trumpet before but I I was interested somehow it’s funny how that happens it was same with me it was just a total uh coincidence that
I got a horn and that was my instrument and and were you in love with the trumpet right from the beginning not right at the beginning but very soon but six is actually quite young to start a br I was at that time I was well eight is almost also young to start a brass were all your teeth all settled yeah already and tamash did you play right from the very beginning side yes you did yeah because my teeth are not even
I think that was the reason a little bit so it it you found a position because people always ask you know and there’s this big discussion on a trumpet form about omers shures and and how it should be right in the middle and then someone wrote but look at tamas he plays amazing and he plays on the side it obviously is not it’s it’s never been a big deal with you right
I I tried to uh put it on on the middle really I I was asked to put it in the middle but uh it was just going away always always on the right uh uh left side left left side and it’s never had any disadvantage for you no no it’s just made people giv some people something nice to talk about so you took up the trumpets aged eight and you practiced and practiced and practiced
I was practicing at home and my father went away all the time and I started to practice because he wasn’t able to hear it such such he didn’t like to hear it no oh okay and he he asked me yeah much do you think you can leave with this instrument you can you can get money out of it if you are going to be a musician
I Papa I think I I will so you decided quite early you wanted to be a professional musician no I was about 13 14 yeah okay and actually you studied in Budapest no no you went to Chicago hang on hang on I got to get you see there’s nothing about really about your online so I’m making this up as
I go along you did study in Chicago but before that no I I studied in my hometown uh 50 km from and then I went to seed which is like 200 kilm from that’s where the goulash comes from from seed comes a very good yeah yeah is very famous and then I was studying until the abitur had graduation graduation and
I and I went to the Music Academy Budapest in Budapest but then you did go over and study study um with the Chicago guys that came later that came later what was that like as a as a young Hungarian it was really I mean it was it was still East uh East block then wasn’t it so how did that come it was just just one year before that and uh
I received a scholarship from shti shos Foundation from Chicago and and we had a big um um audition session for that and shorty came himself to Budapest and that was his appearance like after 50 years he didn’t come for for 50 years or something really and he came back and he said yeah I I would like to do something for the brass players in so he was looking for a brass scholarship ah okay interesting and then that was the reason he picked me up and okay you will go to
H to Chicago and you will learn how to play in the new Orchestra wow and tell us a bit that was my fortune amazing and tell tell us a little bit what was Bud like Bud H the legendary trumpet player what was he like as a teacher cuz I played in the Chicago Symphony for a while for as an extra and sat in front of him and he complained all he was like ah yeah shty did it better oh he so he’d like the whole time you hear this commentary going on yeah he had commentaries but he was very friendly the very nice and um
He showed me many many things how to play really in the orchestra like like shorty imagine that you will learn it from Chicago and um yeah it went very very um quick at the time actually but uh this was my my best time uh to to get ready as an orchestra player of course cuz you were young you were like 1920 right n at that time
I I already had a job already had the job radio Orchestra budap okay okay so that came at 21 and then you got the scholarship and then you came back to Budapest and got into the festival I got back to Budapest and then I went back to to the USA to California to California to study uh further more with
Orchestra experiences and Orchestra to build up a good song something like that and then made my Master’s Degree there and then I English language yeah then I came back to budapes and I left uh radio orchest and went to the uh it was a new pman and chap from Ian Fisher and Festival Orchestra Budapest yeah found it ah fantastic story really it’s it’s it’s but it all happen sort of in such a short period of time um just going back to
Chicago just because there’s a lot of Americans um uh watching right now what would you say was the best thing about Bud hurst’s teaching to listen how he does how he plays his sound how he approaches how to play an A character like like picture of an exhibition how they play in America how they play in Europe they play differently yeah and um he he he get he gave me many many ideas what do you think the secret was for him of playing so long so well cuz how old old was he when he died 93 yeah
I think yeah about 90 or something but he was still playing yeah he was he was 66 and I was there amazing he played amazing yeah really amazing I think he loved the horn he he loved his instrument and he was preparing all the time for his job very concentrated and that was his secret yeah amazing gosh everyone is uh so
I just there’s a couple of questions because if you’ve got questions for tamash then do keep sending them because sometimes they go through so quickly I don’t see them but um a Great Horn hangout friend Cindy Williams asks how do you balance your busy life as a soloist Ensemble make member making time for practice and being a dad how do you balance all this you know um
I like my instrument also I do I do pretty much for it that do it it goes and it uh it sounds like I I like and I will and um that helps me pretty much to to be uh over the water and uh of course this is a busy life but uh I try to try to do like that that
I have a little time for my family or my my um private life or so in in in one of your by very small biographies um that that I was looking at it says your biggest hobby is is your daughter Dora yeah she is I have some Hobbies um besides that yeah yeah tell us uh playing table tennis
I I yes I remember seeing you go totally crazy on a tour once in table tennis B are you you’re pretty good huh yeah I I was I was actually at that time when I I chose the way to be a musician I was thinking about to to play uh table tennis professionally well you wouldn’t have had to buzz as much for that maybe you would have earned more money if you’d gone into the big table tennis think but it’s quite an aggressive you see you see the
Olympic table tennis people I quite an aggressive yeah quite fast yeah everything is are you that fast on your feet not anymore uh question from Pierre uh was it difficult to adapt to Rotary trumpet or was it common in Hungary actually my first trumpet was a rotary trumpet I got I received from the music school and uh of course
I have played on it like two four years and then I got my piston American System then I went to the schools and then I finished my diploma my my last um exam with with piston we trumpet and played in hungaryan Orchestra and R Orchestra radio Orchestra with piston then then um there there was the time there are many orchestras they they were uh collecting
German instruments or or getting more German instruments into our orchestras also and that it was not so new for me but in Hungary it was now people play on Pistons a lot they play on everything actually they everything they use everything they they use everything you played in a wonderful brass quintet didn’t you they were called the um hang on brass ad liit nameless yeah brass ad lion this another one that’s another one the one we showed at the beginning on the on the boat which one was that uh that was
Anonymous or maybe it was Anonymous I think it was we showed that at the beginning um and and we’ve been playing in the brass Ensemble together for a long time here uh it’s hard to find time for all this stuff isn’t it but brass Ensemble is really good to stay in shape I I like it that I like that and we played quintet do you remember up here on the roof years and years ago gosh you were you got the job in the
Berlin fill uh in 2000s you started official and um and you teach also I did I I teach at the Korean Academy here and I was teaching at the Music Academy like six years long in Budapest it was a great um opportunity to me to how to how to build up young players uh but I I got a little tired
I I must it’s it’s going backwards and forwards as well it was too much work too much Year too much there and you cannot be working all the time but now one of your favorite things to do and also one of my favorite things to do we love to go to pmf yes in the summer and that’s a
Pacific music festival and there’s something very special there’s something very special about pmf we we just you know anyone who’s been there knows knows what I mean it becomes a family and everyone that we have um we have coached in our section becomes very special to us now what has happened that you’re some of your trumpet players from all around the world your pmf trumpet players they’ve put together a little video saying hello to you that we are now jaob have you got it ready to go [Music] hi we miss you [Music] where hi tamash [Music] hi
Boston hope all is going well miss you and hope to see you [Music] soonas hello from lot Concert Hall in Soul South Korea thank you so much for all of your inspirational teaching and [Applause] [Music] playing tamas s hello from pmf and saas see you [Music] soon thank you very much all of you guys made me very happy thank you very much that’s so so lovely thank you everybody who took part in that
I love the trio the transatlantic Trio of you three playing playing The Fan Fair there um you did that over Skype Ayan San thank you so much for putting that together and also Nick in sapora on the pmf team see you soon yeah see you soon we’ll see you in the summer anyway I always like to surprise my guests with h with something that and
I thought that was so I got tears in my eyes when I saw that you are very loved so back to Serious Business now um ah there’s some people say just signing in Tamar says when when you Sarah when were in Israel you asked me to comment on a horn hangout I’m glad I managed to do it great
Tamar thank you for writing in um oh Pepe asked a very good question in your opinion what are the needed qualities to be a Trumpeter of the Berlin philarmonic needed qualities yes what do you need well okay yeah practice like crazy love your instrument love your instrument love your colleagues um uh this is of of course a high level to to play in an orchestra but uh you have to you have to uh have a big dream a dream you you would like to be here and it it makes your way if you want to be here
I think yeah what about trumpet for all the trumpet players watching what are the requirements be able to play rotary yes of course that’s all the audition is done on a rotary trumpet even this to achieve a German traditional sound to achieve the orchestra of sound what uh what the Berlin F harmonic has only and um be very hardworking yeah someone just wrote in
Dennis herck wrote in he heard the Mala 3 on the digital concert hall and you’re offstage solo is one of the best trumpet playing he has ever heard oh great thank you there’s quite a few um there’s quite a few recordings of Mala 3 on there but you always know who’s doing the offstage cuz either you’re sitting on stage or gabo is sitting on stage so whoever is not sitting on stage is doing the doing the solo yeah that’s always
I imagine that always being a very lonely solo to play I love that solo you love that I love that Soo really it’s yeah just I think I’m I’m having fun and I’m when I’m I I can play it’s beautiful it’s just beautiful but are you standing in the canteen in our backstage C no I I found my spot where is your spot behind the studios on the fifth floor that’s where you were last time it sounds better from there you can see the people all sort of looking around but um
I heard someone someone had to play it in the canteen last time it was uh it was another Orchestra and I imagine that being a little bit distracting but if you’re upstairs or completely on your is always Philip tianu sang watching in China says how do you choose your instrument I have noticed you have different trumpets including
Leo R Mona and shago yes you it’s not an easy one it’s not an easy one but every instrument has a different character different sound and uh uh when I got to the orchestra I played only on shager instruments and then after a while I I thought I might try something else also and I came to lner and then
I I found K I found Monga and they they are all all very good for certain characters of uh orchestra playing and I pick I pick up that horn what I like for that passage we always impressed at that French horn players because we don’t like changing our instruments at all but you guys have this sort of uh sort of picnic of trumpet trumpets around you um and it doesn’t seem to matter how you know how small how large where the where the fingers go um just the main thing is the mouthpiece or do you change the mouthpieces as well
I I do change the mouthpiece uh not not many times but uh I’m not um um I’m able to change it without a big problem okay but uh choosing the right instrument for for the right character for orchestra playing I think is is it’s the most important thing is there one you use more than others is there like the the because which one is it it’s
I have a Shaka there I have a Le here and this beautiful French horn that’s mine beautiful Alexander yeah well done yeah so but it on a normal day you turn up for work and and and just a sort of normal piece you you’d play you play on on my my leg now on your leg now okay and you have a little blue you left your your
Piccolo I love your Piccolo somebody even wrote they love your um they love your Piccolo your blue Piccolo um and what’s this this is your this is my D trumpet your D trumpet okay so it’s basically pick your trumpets according to the repertoire that you have to play in the sound that it makes okay Ireland summmer asks besides classical what is your favorite genre of music to play to play yeah to play and
I would ask to listen to maybe I I wish I could play jazz I I like to listen jazz or Pig pan especially yeah but uh I I was able once in San Diego to play in a um a Beauty uh competition where there what you mean like with girls in the kitties yeah yeah yeah and and there was a big band behind and
I got invited to play there as a classical musician yeah great but it was it was great great job was anyone looking at the music or you were watching the girls yeah it was hard to look at the music of course California Beauty pent California beauty pageant yeah exactly oh wow in California well goodness I like I like playing in a big band but this is not my style actually and to listen to to listen to uh yeah mostly chairs do you do you listen to actually
I have to tell our online viewers something about tamash tamash can sleep anywhere tamas we go on an orchestra Tour on a brass player tour and he puts his headphones on and falls asleep you you you you fall asleep within seconds on the train on the bus on the but are you listening to music you were just gone
I’m I’m so envious of this um you just have to be careful that nobody puts a sticker on you saying kiss me or or something like that because you’re just always asleep um are you listening to music or do you just sleep or is that just to stop us talking to you just just having my my um space uh space to get my uh a calm down before a concert or something okay well
I’ll I’ll know now I won’t disturb you anymore um MK wants to know do you practice free buzzing and if so what do you think the benefits may be buzzing not so much but uh every day when I I start to wake up my body and wake up my lips I do some breathing technique some buzzing some but buzzing with mouthpiece buzzing with mouthpiece free buzzing a little bit buzzing with mouthpiece and then then
I pick up my trumpet and what are the first things you play on the trumpet just just a few just notes yeah or a little little little a little little how how the air goes yeah yeah every day it’s sort of checking how we feel isn’t it and how the and isn’t it funny that how you can tell by your first note how the day is going to be yes it is it is very important gosh everyone’s coming in um tsuan is watching hello
T and we like the video of you in the um in the cupboard um he wants to know what your most memorable moment was with with Bud HTH with Bud oh oh maybe it’s one we can’t talk about I I don’t know if I should go on tell us may he rest in peace yeah of course he he made great uh lessons for me
I so he he made all the lessons very great and and um it was a a great time to to be together and after the last lesson I I asked him already just a few days before if he could go out for the last or eating drinking something just just for an hour or so okay I I would think it over he said and then cuz he was already about 6 yeah 66 66 and then he came out with us there were there were no two other
Hungarian guys H player and the TU player and we went uh with him like four people out and got our dinner and started to drink and he was telling stories about conductors about how to put in an orchestra life and you know that and then it was like suddenly 4 Hour in 4 in the morning and he was still keeping telling stories and and and and uh having cigarettes with us he must have had a great time yeah yeah 4 in the morning impressive gosh and what about the most impressive concert you heard by him uh in
Ravinia Park Ravinia yeah it was uh Ramia uh Park time when I was I got the scholarship that’s the Chicago Symphony Orchestra open air concerts in the summer and uh gosh the the the big CH trumpet player uh in America he was playing the Carson Jo Johnny Carson Show who which who’s the TR player in America who played the
Johnny Carson to can someone write us on the chat please that would be great um he had a big band also he had a big band winter mes no no no no old old okay if any of you know who we’re talking about please write in and tell us and he was playing in with the orchestra that day no he was he was a solist oh he was a soloist ah okay he came on stage than you thank you do sings he came on stage he had he had the dress was like 4 until 600 and the show started 8:00 p.m. and he played everything
Through toour rest and come to concert and then he came on stage and played wonderful great solos and then he was playing like a like a um about 20 people are writing doc sever doc seon doc severon thank you everyone that’s right yes thank you thanks Tim we got it he was in a red costume and playing some uh
Spanish music and and of course great and and he just stopped the Applause and he said you know everybody uh I I just wanted to be in this Orchestra but there is a there’s a guy who plays principal trumpet here but her said he was better than me and it was a wonderful moment for me because he was my teacher at that time and
I have heard many great stories and of course his recordings and and uh he played on that night or at late at night before the the pictures at an exhibition of course live such a concert to hear is is great reia is also fantastic great did you meet um um Arnold Jacobs did you me yes of course
Jacobs and the French from pa um names the French French horn the principal French horn oh Dale Kev yeah we we love Dale he’s been on the horn Hangouts twice um unfortunately I never met Jake because uh when I was in Chicago he was already ill okay did he talk to you about breathing did you yeah he talked about breathing and uh he was talking about how to change a mouthpiece and how to find a mouthpiece for the the right character for a for a smooth
Solo or is crispy Solo or something like that crispy solo that’s ni and he he made they made good Expressions about that I would have loved to have worked with him he was really quite incredible so after all these 20 doc sever since here um David and katar hi David um ask what your most memorable concert with the
Berlin fonic was we have them all the time the most yeah the most is when when Simon s Simon was he had the in in Inauguration in very good inaug inauguration concert inauguration concert yeah I I don’t forget it because was Mal five I won’t forget that either it was really that was an incredible atmosphere yeah and it’s is it on the digital
Concert Hall no we didn’t have of course yeah they they put it on but we didn’t have digital Concert Hall in those days at that time but it was a live Rec live um um that’s right TV have a look at it you guys it’s really fantastic I got goosebumps at the beginning of that that you must have had more than
Goosebumps that was quite a uh a scary uh concert that was really very prominent was not not the concert was scary the the the dress her or in the morning cuz if we came on stage and the the the the audience that was full there like 3,000 people here 2600 and and you had to play twice a day
Like A ccer and M five twice a day is really not something uh you would recommend to trumpet students um a question from Peter hi tamas has your approach to trumpet and the things you practice have they changed as your career got got on so do you practice now differently than you did when you were a younger trumpet player um does your routine change you’re very disciplined
I mean I always see you disappearing up to the to the room to practice in our in our in our G that’s really yeah no it’s it’s you’re very disciplined but I guess the principal trumpet here has to be yes um how if the the change it uh I don’t know um not so much I think not so much how different methods of course during the years and
I tried many things and I’m I’m always looking for to pick up new stuff like like new UD books or I’m interested in new stuff well can you can you help for trumpet players that are watching can you give us some of your favorites or what has helped you I mean I don’t know books yeah I know
I know about arban but I don’t know much more about than that yeah arban is the Bible for us that’s just what gab said it’s our Bible yeah yeah I have schb Davidson uh stamp I you know all of that I think yeah yeah stamp we have and and of course if you have so many method books in your head already and you you try to mix up or try to develop your own uh um warmup studies and
I have some of my own but they are not can we see them they’re not written yet when are you going to write them when I when I a little bit more time I can sing your warm-ups I know all my colleagues warms up you know this is you know how everybody else does their warm up but it would be good to write them down sometime
I think I think everyone here would be very happy about that um oh there’s a trump someone from Afghanistan has just joined in Ahmed baset greetings Basit from Afghanistan we’re it’s it’s amazing where Everyone’s Watching from it’s really incredible I love this um cat has asked do you prefer working with chamber groups or with full Orchestra full
Orchestra yeah me too we like we like brass Ensemble but full full Orchestra is really um really something special than for the question anyway both both are nice way to play but full Orest is a really a great job it really is a great job it really is it’s just this team effort this feeling that we’re all working towards something really special in the evening and in our
Orchestra it’s really especially intense I find yes it is because there’s not one person there that doesn’t want to be there with all their passion and gives 200% in the concerts that’s very special um May I just ask you because the question is coming up um about your new plans because in the when you came here uh you got you took first trumpet who was first trumpet before you con gr com
G and he had left and then Martin ketzer was first trumpet and then Martin ketzer went to Second trumpet and I don’t say going down to Second trumpet because I don’t see it going down it’s just a different job um and and made made room for garor so you two young Hungarian things came in and took over the berin fonic and you are planning to do the same yeah
I’m planning to do the same because Martin is going to retire actually he’s officially from retire I was going to say he’s he’s actually officially he’s still playing fantastically and he’s still here yes and I had to decide myself if I’m going to play principal until my retire time or would I go to the second year yeah yeah and
I decided to give room for the young people for young people if they have um if you can find and we we had an audition and we didn’t find some of them so we’re having another audition sometime soon and until that’s all sorted out you’ll still please play for us from yeah I’m I’m having fun I’m still having fun yeah and uh it’s really really a great job here to be a principal yeah no but it’s a lot of work
I mean it’s one of the hottest chairs in the orchestra I think have there been days where you just thought not don’t want to do that anymore yes I I I think the orchestra needs was yeah yeah people this sort of come and get them yeah yeah um but if people who are out there deciding oh I’m going to go and play for the
Berlin philarmonic what do they require to do for the audition what is a typical trumpet audition like what do they require here yeah tradition German TR why is that so difficult why do people not like to play that high high part oner I don’t know uh the piece itself is not so difficult anymore yeah but on the
German R system because it’s not a pump system the the air goes like like in this R rot rotation rotation and uh to to be able to play a nice leg or nice um um articulation you have to have a certain kind of uh talent for that and if you if you’re a pump player a piston trampet player you won’t be able to te the instruments very
Qui quickly and and some some people they are thinking like I can do that H is not not so heavy thing of course not but to able to play on island it’s already a little bit difficult yeah okay so they play hid uh Rotary on the first first round and then and maybe they will be asked to play the
Hind to him it’s not first movement because it’s a um heavy stuff to play a lot playing retirement play and then uh they do orra like from [Music] binski all the all the top top hits the greatest hits of the trumpet repertoire um and a good question from our friend saturo in uh Tokyo what would you expect for the
Next Generation who wants to be principal trumpet player in the Berlin philarmonic in the future what would you expect um I think he he means you know what what would we expect them to be able to do um of course play perfectly um yeah but uh just a little thing about playing perfectly uh many many people are thinking about um we are all perfect who we but we are not all perfect and we are not machines not robots and
I I just would like to meet a a guy who get the chob here who is a is a real musician from from from the bottom here but his heart or her heart uh because to be to catch a catch a seat here a principal C you have to be a real musician with the Deep Emotions and uh not only technique technique and and playing without mistakes that’s that’s not enough amen absolutely
I absolutely agree this Perfection is something which um everyone expects especially here in the berin philonic but you’re right we are are not robots and there are some days that are easier just because we play here doesn’t mean that we’re perfect we just try very hard to be so um yeah so that’s that’s really Ayan son says she has to leave she has to go to play her concert now she said it was so good to see you and see you in
Japan this summer back in P yeah see you soon um thank you for all these questions coming there are so many um just a couple of things um uh Dennis asked again how do you and gabo decide who plays which piece uh it depends on who has a a gig yeah of course it depends on that also and yeah he goes also very of often to
Hungary I go also very often to Hungary and uh we we try to um do our jobs in blockwise few weeks two weeks yeah yeah and then of course we we talk about it if you played with that conductor already or not and I would like to play it with that one because I I’m I’m curious about him and
I never done anything with him yeah you did yesterday we played with Petrenko K patranco our new principal conductor and I know in our horn section we everyone wanted to play with him you had free so you still have this experience but you play I did I did play uh this scraping that’s right yeah so you know cre yesterday as well if you get a chance to watch if you didn’t see it on the digital concert it’s on it’ll be up on the archive it was really an incredible concert last night with
K penko and the chovsky 6 it was so intense it was it was almost like unbearably tense it was just oh goodness me um there’s a quick question from Mark in Washington you’ve studied in Europe and the US what is the difference in teaching between the two continents um I’m I’m not sure because in I was most of the time in
Europe and I know the European in way I picked uh rather that up and U I don’t know in in in in us uh I had the feeling that you are focusing to play on uh trumpet without mistakes this is the most important thing and and I heard when I hear sometimes and I use Orchestra Orchestra from us
I think they play great but this is the level great but not so wonderful and this is because of perfect playing this is my opinion I I I think also what you’re saying is people can’t really really let themselves go and play with full abandon because they’re worried that it has to be perfect I’ve encountered that in
America as well um of course there are exceptions but uh I I know I know what you mean this this emphasis on everything being perfect and I would sometimes rather hear a wrong note but somebody playing from their heart yeah yes of course and making risk the tone quity of sun yeah yeah um let’s see oh that’s this are you are you going to be like your horn colleagues and invite other trumpet players from other orchestras to play concert yeah well it’s just because we’ve had a we’ve had a a position free so we’ve had we’ve been trying a lot of people out it’s not
Quite the same in your section because you are still playing a job so you don’t need to try we don’t need but uh if there’s an opportunity we might do that do that get some other people in yes after the first audition we we invited one guy from light he was the best on that um audition and he did some some kind that’s right he did he did it’s um yeah it’s going to be always when a new position is free and somebody new comes it’s it’s always a a little different feeling in the orchestra in a section that’s played so long together and we
We will have this now in the horn section with our new principal horn David Cooper the job has been free for seven eight years um I can’t wait for him to start but it it’s all it’s it’s it’s just different and it’s going to be the same in your section you guys are such a good a good tight band um and you’re lucky to also have your academist because they they’ve been doing a lot of work your your
Academy students do a lot of work in the orchestra yeah they well trained I think yeah know that’s that’s great when’s the next Academy audition did soon isn’t it yeah it’s for G somebody’s coming to in the middle of May Ken Saku says what’s your favorite piece to play in the orchestra is it marer 5 yes yes really
Ser m m 3 marer five and um a quick question do you think that buzzing on the mouthpiece is the way to play better that’s from Paulo Santos um let let me let me tell you an example and we are on tour with the orchestra everybody asking me about how to keep your condition because you are pretty much on the way and sleep a lot in the bus yeah sleep a lot on the bus on the airplane uh and the first thing that
I do we be come into the hotel and I pick up my mouthpiece and I I have some passing um um exercises like 15 minutes long and I’m able to play already so this 15 minutes of okay okay yeah you guys are trumpet players the minute we arrive in any hotel first thing they do they get out their instruments and practice it’s true the horns aren’t quite that bad but so buzzing is a good thing
I mean there’s there’s all sorts of um technical questions here if you have um anything to say to tamash or say hi send him a message I’ll make sure he gets a copy copy of the chat um but we’re actually coming to the end of the hangout which is which is really sad because I could talk to you it wasn’t as bad as you thought right
I I I was forget I know I know it’s um but it’s it’s it’s just like a chat and I love this feeling of being connected with so many people around the world and uh and and when when people now Google you and to find like me to find out something about you you will be here what do you think um do you think when when you retire do you think trumpet you’ll keep playing somebody asked me this the other day do you think when you retire from the orchestra and we still have many more years before we do that and trumpet will always will
You be one of these guys that goes and play in the in the Blas capella on a Sunday I was thinking about the yeah because I cannot leave without the Trum this is also one of my it comes it’s part of your body just uh yeah so we’ll go and play we’ll find some little Blas capella um to to play in when we retire
I can’t imagine it either a couple more questions just couple more um you see it’s always the way you say it’s the end of the hangout and everybody starts writing questions so we’ll just take two or three just for the last ones quick one David how long does a typical daily warm-up last in a in a look at them all you guys honestly you’re quiet for so long and then you send all the questions um how long does the typical daily warmup last of when you’re playing with the orchestra so it depends on what
I’m going to play with the orchestra if there’s a heavy stuff like mother or our show I don’t I don’t need such a long warm if I play a Mot syy or I might take more time mhm okay um Cindy says you light up when you talk about your PL and your family do you have any meditation or a routine to prepare to be relaxed for your performances
I I do go out uh um if there is a room with so many BR players or some j i to go out and have my my um quiet time quiet yeah yeah yeah know that that’s important to uh Scott says he recently heard the bur Phil wind quintet and string quartet is there a brass quintet that travels for concerts well uh we are a brass
Ensemble we we play in our full brass Ensemble sometimes if we need to we play as a quintet if the gig’s good but usually we play we play all together um odad says as a soloist when he’s standing on the stage he or she I’m sorry odad I’m not sure if that’s male or female I think probably male
I am very pressed and can’t play as good as when I am playing alone do you have some tips uh be well prepared and actually there’s a good example and I Was preparing myself for this job for this audition I went to different schools in Hungary I I follow up the the the directors and I asked them if
I could play my my program hingo and all theseal passages and I went to three or four uh uh different schools and I gave my list and they put pick up yeah I like to listen that pie and that pie and that Mage and that was a really good uh Examination for me before I came here so preparing playing as much as possible in front of people
I think to scare yourself to put yourself in a scary position beforehand so that you know how your body reacts yeah totally agree totally agree um thank you everyone you’ve written so many Fantastic questions for tamas I’ll make sure he gets the um he gets the chat so he can see where you’ve all joined in from keep do write in if you you haven’t written in yet tell us where you’re watching from and what
I would like from you if you feel like it take a picture take a selfie of where you are now watching it tweet it with ashorn hangout we can see it then on the page I’ll retweet it put it on our Facebook page we just like to see where people are joining it if anyone’s wearing their t-shirt then they get extra points speaking of t-shirt um [Music]
George oh oh great thank you very much this is for you I have a little present you have a present for me too oh my goodness oh wow it’s some Hungarian traditional oh how thank you for inviting me and having fun with this is amazing thank you nobody’s ever brought me a present for coming on the horn hangers
I usually give them a present that’s fantastic look at that I love that thank you can we open that now with some coffee we have a rehearsal now for tosa thank you that’s really nice you tamash tamash son Valente tamash tamash you are my friend and my colleague and I really really appreciate you all you do and you’re just such a wonderful musician such a wonderful person thank you for coming on the horn
Hangouts and maybe you do another one sometime soon maybe we can do a whole one on buzzing everyone keeps talking about the buzzing um so goodbye to everybody and uh we will see you next time on the horn Hangouts thank you to George to Jacob to hansome Tim in Melbourne and also our new web Master Andy do who’s in
Hastings he’s been on the chat he’s was helped me set up all the new website do join us keep keep us in keep in touch with us on the horn Hangouts and um yeah next one is with ravan vlatkovich yay and if any of you trumpet players say who is ravan vlatkovich are in big trouble he just playing
H did he oh okay well he’s on he’s the next he’s he’s a he’s a God so he’ll be coming on the horn Hangouts next keep a lookout we’ll keep you posted that’s all from us thank you how do you say thank you in in Hungarian exactly that’s all bye-bye guys see you bye bye n [Music]
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