Daniel Graham - Trumpet & Horn
Daniel
Graham performs Trumpet with the Heritage Philharmonic (formerly the Independence Symphony) and the
Overland Park Symphony Orchestras, Second Trumpet with the Kansas City
Civic Orchestra, and Repiano Cornet with the Western Missouri British
Brass Band. He has also played with the Kansas City Puccini Festival,
the Civic Opera Theater of Kansas City, and the Independence Brass Quintet.
Graham began his musical career at the age of ten playing cornet. Later he became a music education major at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory of Music where he studied for two years. He finished a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis in Philosophy. While at the University of Minnesota he studied trumpet with David Baldwin, formerly President of the International Guild of Trumpet Players and Charles Schlueter, presently Principal Trumpet with the Boston Symphony. Daniel learned to play swing music from local Kansas City jazz trumpeter, the late, Bill Trumbauer.
Because of his interest in the appropriateness of different kinds of trumpet and horn sound spectra for various periods and styles of music, Graham plays instruments of a number of origins and designs. One of these instruments is the Rotary Trumpet (with valves that turn like those found on (french) horns). His public performance on trumpet involves roughly equal amounts of standard (piston-valved) and rotary trumpets. He has also begun playing the baroque trumpet (valveless), introducing it into his orchestral playing in the Spring of 2004. On horn, he plays an American-made rotary double-horn and a Vienna horn. Vienna horns, originating in Austria, are single horns in F with three dual-piston valves.
Graham is the author of what is perhaps the only book written primarily about rotary trumpets in the English language, Rotary Trumpets: An American Player’s Perspective, published in 2002.
Graham joined the faculty of Music Arts Institute in 2002 and is the adjunct instructor of Trumpet and Horn at the Metropolitan Community Colleges. He has been teaching for ten years, helping students prepare for solos, auditions and participation in orchestras, bands and jazz bands.
Email: grahampartyof5@msn.com
