Hags888

Great topic Ed,

1. Hindemith Sonata
2. Tryptiques, Tomasi
3. Colchester Fantasy (quintet I know...but still), Ewazen

There are many others, but these three top the list. The Hindemith was one of the first "serious" pieces of trumpet lit I learned. I learned it for a scholarship contest in high school and I have performed it several times since. Like Jimi said, technically it's not difficult, but I have learned so much from this piece. One of the most interesting moments I had with this was when I spent a month in St. Petersburg, Russia and took a few lessons with pro over there. We spent an entire lesson on the first half of the first page, just working on sound concepts. The Tomasi is one of those pieces that is just plain "fun" to play. I learned it out of the etude book first, but I also break it out to play just for the fun of it. The Ewazen is one of my favorite brass quintet pieces. It's full of wonderful neo-romanticism, but I still enjoy playing it every time. The thing about these three things are, while I get immense enjoyment out of playing them, I feel like I "own" them too. I always have enough confidence to play "the crap out of" these pieces. :)