Welcome to JohnHoltTrumpet.com
Welcome to JohnHoltTrumpet.com, the official web site of John Holt, Associate Professor of Trumpet at the University of North Texas, Principal Trumpet of the Dallas Opera Orchestra, and Yamaha Performing Artist.
This web site provides information on all of John Holt's latest activities and past works, and serves as a resource to the brass community at large. Please check back often for the latest updates.
Top of the Mountain
You can now watch video clips from John Holt's world premiere of this composition by Da Jeong Choi.
Top of the Mountain (2009) for trumpet and multi percussion. World premiere by John Holt, Christopher Deane, and Mark Ford, March 13, 2009.
1st Movement - Largo
2nd Movement - Allegro
3rd Movement - Andante
4th Movement - Prestissimo
5th Movement - Lentissimo
6th Movement - Moderato
7th Movement - Allegretto
Video clips courtesy of Da Jeong Choi.
Facets 3 coming soon!
Later this year, John Holt Will be releasing a new CD on Crystal Records: Facets 3, featuring all new music for trumpet in a variety of settings: trumpet and string quartet, trumpet and piano, trumpet, piano and voice.
Featuring Nataliya Sukhina, piano; Sophia Grech, mezzo soprano; and friends.
Listen to a sample from Facets 3 :
- Mystique - 2.3 MB .mp3
NPR Interview
You can now listen to an interview John Holt recorded in February, 2006, while visiting Las Cruces to perform with the New Mexico State University Symphonic Winds. The interview was taped at NMSU by radio station KRWG-FM and is about thirty minutes long.
French Trumpet Concertos
Crystal Records has released French Trumpet Concertos, CD767 with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kirk Trevor. This album features the concertos of Tomasi, Planel, Jolivet and Desenclos. This is the 5th solo CD released on Crystal and the most of any trumpet artist on that label.
Michael Sachs at UNT
Michael Sachs, principal trumpet of the Cleveland Orchestra, will be my guest at UNT November 8th and 9th, 2006. Mr. Sachs will be giving a master class (12:00 Nov 8th, RH UNT, free) and will perform a solo recital accompanied by professors John Holt, Keith Johnson and UNT trumpet students on Nov 9th, 6:30 PM CH UNT, free
Trumpet Concertos Released
Crystal Records has released John Holt's newest CD Trumpet Concertos. John Holt, Trumpet; Slovak Radio Orchestra, Kirk Trevor, Conductor. Available thru Crystal Records, Amazon, or any other retail outlet where classical trumpet CDs are sold.
Acclaimed English mezzo soprano, Sophia Grech was my guest at the University of North Texas for a performance of arias for voice, trumpet and piano on February 26, 2006. The trio performed music from the operas and oratorios by G.F. Handel as well as two movements from "To Cast a Shadow" by Eric Ewazen. John will be joining Ms. Grech and pianist Natalia Bolshakova for several performances in the summer of 2007 throughout the United Kingdom and France. The concert at UNT featured John Holt, trumpet, Sophia Grech, mezzo soprano and Ekaterina Chernaya, piano.
February 2006, Eric Ewazen at UNT
Eric Ewazen accompanies Professor John Holt on Sonata for Trumpet and Piano during the February 1 Trumpet Departmental at the University of North Texas
May 2006, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
John recorded four french trumpet concertos with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kirk Trevor to be released on the Crystal Records label in 2007:
- Concerto for trumpet and orchestra - Henri Tomasi
- Concerto for trumpet and strings - Robert Planel
- 2nd Concerto for trumpet - Andre Jolivet
- Incantation, Thréne and Dance - Alfred Desenclos
Updates to follow.
Photos from John's 2005 trip to Bratislava can be seen in the photo gallery.