Repertoire resources

One of my great interests has always been discovering new music—not necessarily new to the world, but new to me. I love deep dives to hear unknown and lesser known repertoire that I’ve rarely (if ever) heard live or encountered in a formal educational context. This page is an opportunity to share the results of those deep dives with you.

This page compiles recordings of some of the works I’ve most enjoyed into playlists across platforms (YouTube, Soundcloud, Spotify), as well as hosting some standalone links and videos. I hope some pieces may surprise and delight. In any case, my wish is that the work I have done to consolidate these recordings might help others hear and perform this repertoire more easily.

The top two sections focus on repertoire for trumpet. The final section focuses on orchestral repertoire.

Music with trumpet by women composers

For some time, I’ve been researching and compiling lists of solo and chamber works by women composers that includes trumpet. Of course, many others have done similar work and have produced more substantial reference materials, like the list by Amy Dunker. However, my particular interest has been in discovering recordings of these works in order to support their programming in larger curatorial contexts.

I have compiled 77 tracks on playlists across YouTube, Spotify, and Soundcloud and embedded them below. Also included are a few standalone links from Vimeo and composer websites. Enjoy!

performed by Nate Wooley

Also hear fragments from Anne LeBaron’s Way of Light and Mary Ellen Childs’s Palimpsest on their websites.

Trumpet recital
inspiration

These playlists are each built around a germinating idea and include a mix of standard and more obscure repertoire. Most pieces are written for trumpet, but some songs that could be transcribed for trumpet are also included. Recordings of pieces that have versions for trumpet and other instruments, but which do not have a trumpet recording available on Spotify, are also included in their non-trumpet versions.

Orchestral programs

These playlists are theoretical orchestra programs that include a mix of standard and more obscure repertoire and are attentive to composer representation. Again, these are built around a germinating idea, but also take musical style and aesthetic coherence into account. Some are designed as shorter concerts of approximately one hour (like “Get your Goose”), which might be used as children’s programs or rush hour concerts, for example. Many of the others are more standard length.

Short concerts