Thank you for your answer. I guess my "standarized" word was not the right one to use. I was leading more towards having young players getting a broad knowledge of musical styles as players and not only learning solos or orchestra repertoire by itself.
My musical path was moslty guided by a quote Maurice Andre gave me one day at his house while listening to a famous trumpet player's recording of really technical works. his words were: "always remember that music is sharing feelings. It does not matter how good you are with technic, make your heart sing and you'll be succesful".
About my background...well lets make it short
Born in Costa Rica, and grew up in Switzerland. Starting my trumpet studies with Jean-Francois Michel (former principal trumpet with Munich under Celibidache), then was invited by Eric Aubier to go to Paris during a seminary he had in Switzerland called "trumpet and ski"..lots of fun...but playing trumpet after one full day of ski hurts haha. I spent there 4 years and learned a great deal about french music, studies, and well.....how french people party, lots of fun.
During my last 2 years there I went and took lessons with Wolfgang Bauer, then professor in Basel, Switzerland but now in Stuttgart. He was one of the most unbelivable piccolo trumpet player I have ever heard....he makes Richter, Stamitz, Gross, Bach sound easy.
Then I moved to Maine where I got my master, in a small school but at the that time with a great trumpet teacher...he was one of the first to really make me work seriously on orchestral repertoire. Got married, kid.... and then moved to Arizona to get a DMA with David Hickman. The 2 years I spend there were great...really busy but great. I finished one year ago and now play in an orchestra in Texas, solo and learn about performance on early instruments with Dr. Tarr.
I would love to get more informations about the Mahler parts you did. My dissertation is now published by Hickman Music Ed....a set of 11 volumes of orchestral excerpts... and I always try to get my hand on all available source of repertoire like that.
Well this was a short version of my life....sorry hope it doesn't get people too bored.
JC