Read Stephen's "The Contemporary Trumpet": pdf document
and learn how to write for the trumpet .
Visit the microtonal trumpet website constucted by Stephen Altoft and Donald Bousted
Repertoire 2006 |
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| COMPOSER | TITLE |
| SOLO TRUMPET | |
| Philip Clark | Sketch for Cherry* |
| Morton Feldman | A Very Short Trumpet Piece |
| Mauricio Kagel | Old/New |
| Tim Parkinson | August* |
| James Romig | Microsonnet II* |
| James Saunders | Floating Poles* |
| Giacinto Scelsi | Quattro Pezzi |
| Stephanie Schweiger | asphodels 1-7 |
| Toru Takemitsu | Paths - in Memoriam Witold Lutoslawski |
| TRUMPET WITH TAPE/LIVE ELECTRONICS | |
| Oded Ben-Tal | Still Life* |
| Donald Bousted | Slide* for quarter-tone trp, DVD, and text (in collaboration with Gary 0'Connor) |
| Michael Clarke | Prism* |
| Michael Clarke | Cascade*(1999 Yorkshire Arts Commission) |
| Christopher Fox | Insecurity |
| Christopher Fox | Klaxonik |
| Bryn Harrison | Mantra* |
| Jonathan Harvey | Ricercare una Melodia |
| Coryn R. R. Smethurst | Porton Down* |
| Ewan Stefani | Altoft Suite*(for solo tape using sounds sampled from trumpet) |
| Ewan Stefani | Interior Voice* |
| Jo Thomas | Red Games* |
| YASSER COLLECTION: 19-division Trumpet | |
| Donald Bousted | Yasser describes his Polemic* |
| Chris Bryan | Dialogue* with computer |
| Stuart Duncan | 501567nm* |
| Oscar Garrido de la Rosa | tom reads useless magazines privately every tuesday* with woodblock |
| John Lely | Corona* |
| Michael Parsons | Melody in 19-divisions* |
| TRUMPET WITH ENSEMBLE | |
| James Saunders | #110603* (Yorkshire Arts Commission) |
| Stefan Wolpe | Piece for trumpet and 7 instruments |
| *indicates pieces written for Stephen Altoft | |
Stephen Altoft is dedicated to the creation of new repertoire for the trumpet. As a solo artist with electronics, and with percussionist Lee Ferguson as duo Contour, he has given concerts in Europe, the United States and Canada. He is a member of ensemble chronophonie and has played with the Kammersinfonie Berlin, the Cornelius Cardew Ensemble, Klangforum Wien, the Dresdner Sinfoniker, Collegium Novum Brass (Zurich), Slowind Wind Quintet and the Karlsruhe Conservatory Trumpet Class under the direction of Rheinhold Friedrich. Stephen studied at the University of Huddersfield (1991-5) where he gained a B.Mus, a Masters degree (in performance) and the Ricordi Prize for Contemporary Performance. This was followed by periods of private study with Markus Stockhausen (Cologne 1996-8) and, with assistance from the Music Sound Foundation, with William Forman (Berlin 1998-1999). Between 2001-2, Stephen was a consultant for the Centre for New Musical Instruments, London, where he was responsible for learning and commenting on a prototype microtonal trumpet. After further research, Stephen developed, in collaboration with Johannes Radeke and Siegmar Fischer in Freiburg, Germany, a fourth (rotary) valve mechanism to enable the conversion of his existing trumpets into microtonal instruments (a 19-division B flat trumpet and quarter-tone C trumpet). Stephen has recorded for SWR, WDR, Deutschlandfunk Köln and Deutschland Radio in Germany and BBC Radio 3 in the UK.