Trevor Herbert - The Cambridge Companion to Brass Instruments

Notes on the contributors

Trevor Herbert was born in Cwmparc, Wales, and was educated at St Lukes College, Exeter, the Royal College of Music and The Open University. He played modern and early trombone with many leading London orchestras and chamber and early music groups before joining the staff of The Open University, where he is now a Senior Lecturer in Music. He continues to play for the Taverner Players and the Wallace Collection. He is a frequent broadcaster and has published numerous important books and articles in international journals relating to brass instruments. He is a contributor to The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and The New Dictionary of National Biography as well as several other major reference works.

John Wallace was born in Fife, Scotland. He was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and York as well as the Royal Academy of Music. He is recognised as one of the worlds leading trumpet virtuosi. He has been principal trumpet of the Philharmonia Orchestra and the London Sinfonietta and many leading composers have written concerti for him. His group, the Wallace Collection, has an eclectic repertoire which includes period performance of nineteenth-century virtuoso music on period instruments. He combines a busy life as an international soloist with his position as head of the Faculty of Brass Studies at the Royal Academy of Music. He was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to music in 1995.

Robert Barclay graduated from the University of Toronto in 1975 with an Honours Degree in Fine Arts. He has worked at the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa since graduating, specialising in the care and preservation of musical instruments. He has been a trumpet maker for more than fifteen years, and has made an intensive study of the traditional techniques of natural trumpet manufacture in Nuremberg. He has produced over fifty Baroque trumpets based on Nuremberg instruments of 1632 and 1746, and many of these are in the possession of trumpet players in Europe, Canada and the United States. His seminal book The Art of the Trumpet-maker was published by Oxford University Press in 1992.

Clifford Bevan is a freelance musician, organologist, author, composer and publisher. He studied at the Royal Academy of Music. He was chiefarranger and pianist with the Temperance Seven, 19614, and then principal tuba with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, 196471. From 1975 to 1978 he was Music Officer with the Southern Arts Association. His publications include The Tuba Family and Musical Instrument Collections in the British Isles.

Roger T. Dean directs the international sonic-arts group LYSIS, now austraLYSIS. His recent compositions include computer music, and SonoPetal for the Australian Chamber Orchestra. He is active as a free improviser, and using computer-interactive, locally networked software he writes in MAX. He has also worked with many leading jazz musicians. His work appears in thirty commercial recordings, and he has written three books on improvisation.

Bruce Dickey was born in the United States, but now lives in Europe. He is the worlds leading virtuoso and scholar of the cornett and has recorded much of the repertory for the instrument. He is Director of Concerto Palatino and teaches cornett at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.

Ralph T. Dudgeon received his Ph.D. in music from the University of California, San Diego. He has appeared throughout the United States, Europe, Canada and Mexico as a soloist and conductor, and has contributed articles to many major reference texts, including New Grove. His first solo album, Music for Keyed Bugle, was the first full-length recording devoted to the keyed bugle. His book, The Keyed Bugle, was published by Scarecrow Press in 1993. He is Professor of Music at the State University of New York, the College at Cortland.

Phillip Eastop studied with Ifor James at the Royal Academy of Music, where he is now a Professor of Horn. He was principal horn of the London Sinfonietta from 1977 to 1986. He trained as a teacher of the Alexander Technique, and practised for four years before returning to a career as a freelance horn player in London on modern, Baroque and Classical horn, with a specialist interest in improvisation.

Robert Evans studied at the University of Oxford, whilst taking lessons on the modern and the natural horn with Anthony Halstead. He divides his time between teaching and freelance horn playing with such groups as the Gabrieli Consort and the English Baroque Soloists. He has taught at the Royal Academy of Music and at the University of Oxford.