Edward Carroll

The 48th Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference
Anaheim, CA

Edward Carroll

Session: A Tribute to Tom Stevens

A native of Chicago and graduate of Juilliard (BM, MM), Edward Carroll (b. 1953) is a trumpeter, conductor, and teacher of international stature. He serves as Professor of Trumpet and Coordinator of Brass Studies at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), on the trumpet, conducting, and chamber music faculty of the Bard Conservatory, The trumpet and chamber music faculty at the Longy School in Boston, Brass Advisor to The Orchestra Now (TON), and is a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College. His students occupy important positions and have won medals in competitions all over the world, including Città di Porcia (2018), Prague Spring (2016), Ellsworth Smith (2012) and Lieksa (2012). Previous appointments include Associate Professor at McGill University’s Schulich School of Music (2007-2011, assuming the role of brass area chair in 2009), the International Chair of Brass Studies at London’s Royal Academy of Music, and Professor of Trumpet at the Rotterdam (NL) Conservatory. Edward Carroll is the Director of the Center for Advanced Musical Studies at Chosen Vale which hosts the world renowned Chosen Vale International Trumpet Seminar, where he is joined on the faculty by such trumpeters as Hakan Hardenberger, John Wallace, Markus Stockhausen, Gabriele Cassone, Mark Gould, and Stephen Burns. He was responsible for the music programming of the California State Summer School of the Arts from 2006-2008 and also chaired the commissioning committee of the International Trumpet Guild (ITG) from 2005-2011.

Mr. Carroll has served as Principal Trumpet of the Rotterdam Philharmonic (James Conlon, Jeffrey Tate, and Valery Gergiev, Music Directors), the San Diego Symphony (David Atherton), and as Associate Principal Trumpet of the Houston Symphony (Lawrence Foster), touring most of the world’s major concert halls and festivals, and recording for Sony, EMI, Virgin, and Erato. A frequent guest with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Edward Carroll directed, recorded, and toured with the New York Trumpet Ensemble from 1979 to 1988. He has performed with the London Sinfonietta, Speculum Musicae, Music Today, I Musici di Montreal, Orpheus, the Bach Aria Group, the Handel and Haydn Society (Boston), and as soloist with many North American and European orchestras. Sir Harrison Birtwistle, Larry Polansky, Anne LeBaron, Bruce Adolphe, and Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Moravec are among the many composers that have written new music for him, and his many solo recordings can be found on the Sony, Vox, MHS, and Newport Classic labels.

Edward Carroll has presented master classes at the Juilliard, Eastman, and Manhattan Schools of Music, the Curtis Institute, Rice and Northwestern Universities, the Universities of Michigan and North Texas, the Interlochen Arts Academy, North Carolina School for the Arts, the Tanglewood Institute, as well as at the St. Petersburg Conservatory “Rimsky Korsakov” (Russia), Bremen Trumpet Academy and Hochschule für Musik Köln (Germany), Franz Liszt Academy (Hungary), The Conservatoire de National Academy of Music,Sofia Conservatory (Bulgaria), Kuopio Conservatory (Finland), Novara Conservatorio “Guido Cantelli” and Bergamo Conservatorio “Gaetano Donizetti” (Italy), Semana de la Trompeta Peruana (Lima), and in the UK at the Royal Scottish Conservatoire (Glasgow), Royal Academy of Music (London), and Royal Northern Conservatory (Manchester). He is a frequent adjudicator of international competitions, including the Città di Porcia International Music Competition in Italy, Concert Artists Guild, Young Concert Artists, and Chamber Music America.

Mr. Carroll considers the time he has shared stages with musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Sir Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, Sir Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons, Mstislav Rostropovich, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Michael Tilson Thomas as his most formative, and collaborations with composers Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, Sir Harrison Birtwistle, and Witold Lutosławski his most enjoyable. His interpretations as conductor on CD of Handel’s Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks with the Chamber Orchestra of Washington (SONY) and Mahler/Schoenberg with the Royal Academy Chamber Ensemble of London (Cantoris) have attracted critical acclaim. In addition to conducting his orchestras in London and Washington, Edward Carroll has been a frequent guest on podiums in Peru with the Orquestra Sinfonica Nacional, Orquestra Sinfonica de Arequipa. And the National Youth Orchestra. He has also conducted New York’s The Orchestra Now, the Daejeon Philharmonic Orchestra in South Korea, Soundscapes of Montreal, the chamber orchestra of the California Institute of the Arts, various ensembles at the Bard College Conservatory, and performances with the Canadian Brass and Friends.

Author Alexander McGrattan states in his book THE TRUMPET (Yale University Press) that “the work of Ed Carroll has been seminal to the creation of a new generation of adventurous young trumpet players since his work at the Rotterdam Conservatory and the establishment of the Lake Placid Music Seminars in the mid-1990s in New York State.” Mr. Carroll feels otherwise but perhaps that can be left for another biography.

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