Natural trumpet (beginners)

The two-year natural trumpet syllabus is designed to broaden the horizons of future orchestral trumpeters, who will be required to play 'historical' instruments as they progress with certain conductors. In the first year, the student is introduced to a natural instrument with no system (valves, slides, keys, holes, etc.) and acquires a degree of autonomy in the classical and pre-romantic orchestral repertoire on copies of a nineteenth-century French instrument quite similar to the present-day trumpet. In the second year, the aim is to deepen mastery of this type of instrument and to incorporate stylistic elements specific to the Baroque repertoire into his playing, by tackling pieces by composers of the period on copies of 18th-century German trumpets that are slightly further removed from our current standards.