Trumpets

Daniel Mendelow: Principal Trumpet

Daniel Mendelow was born in New York in 1954 and began studying piano before switching to the trumpet. He joined the Pittsburgh Youth Symphony Orchestra at the age of 13 and went on to study with Gene Young and Louis Davidson at the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. He graduated with Honours in 1976 and was awarded a Fellowship to the Berkshire Music Centre at the Tanglewood Festival, where he studied with Gunther Schuller, Armando Ghitalla and Roger Voisin.

Later that same year, Daniel Mendelow was offered the position of Principal Trumpet with the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra in Israel. After one season with the JSO he was invited by Zubin Mehta to join the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, which toured Australia in 1978. It was during this tour that Daniel was offered the position of Principal Trumpet with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

Since joining the SSO, Daniel Mendelow has made guest appearances with most of the major Australian orchestras and ensembles. He has appeared as guest Principal Trumpet with the Melbourne, Queensland, West Australian, Tasmanian, and Canberra symphony orchestras, and as a soloist at the Australian Chamber Music Festival in Townsville.

Daniel Mendelow has taught at the Australian National University School of Music since 1991 and has been a guest lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Hong Kong. He has also given numerous masterclasses in Germany and the USA, including classes at the Cleveland Institute of Music and the Oberlin Conservatory.

Paul Goodchild: Associate Principal Trumpet

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Paul Goodchild studied trumpet in Sydney and Europe and was appointed a full-time member of the Sydney Symphony at age 18, later becoming Associate Principal Trumpet. With the SSO, he has toured extensively throughout the USA, Europe, Japan, Taiwan and Asia, as well as Singapore, China and Korea with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. He is Principal Trumpet of many of Sydney’s freelance orchestras and frequently performs with the Chamber Soloists of Sydney, Collegium Musicum at UNSW, Australia Ensemble, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, with whom he has also been a soloist.

In 2009 he performed in the Townsville Chamber Music Festival and in the Sydney Festival with the London Sinfonietta and Morphoses Ballet. This year, he will perform at the International Trumpet Guild World Conference in Sydney. Leading Australian composers have written works for him, including Carl Vine, Ross Edwards, Barry McKimm, David Stanhope, Matthew Hindson and Paul Stanhope. In 2005 he gave the premiere of Alan Holley’s trumpet concerto Doppler’s Web with the Sydney Symphony, reprising it in 2006 with the Queensland Orchestra.

Paul Goodchild is Musical Director of the Waverley Bondi Beach Band and Director of Sydney Brass, one of Australia’s oldest and most respected chamber music ensembles.

John Foster: Trumpet

John Foster was born in 1977 and began his solo career performing the Hummel Trumpet Concerto with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra when he was 15. He has been a member of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra since 2001 and has also appeared as Guest Principal Trumpet with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, West Australian, Adelaide, Tasmanian, Sydney, Queensland and New Zealand symphony orchestras, Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra and the Auckland Philharmonia, as well as Sydney Philharmonia Choirs. He has performed as a soloist with numerous orchestras throughout Australia, New Zealand, the USA and the UK.

John Foster also plays natural trumpet and is the Artistic Director of the period instrument ensemble Australian Baroque Brass. The ABB are currently artists in residence at St James’ Church, Sydney, where John Foster has been the director of their annual concert series since 2006. The ABB has also recorded several CDs and toured to the USA in 2008.

He has appeared with period instrument orchestras including the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Pinchgut Opera, Sydney Philharmonia Baroque Ensemble, New Zealand Baroque Soloists, and the Sydney Consort, and has performed at the Melbourne International Festival of Brass, Canberra International Chamber Music Festival, Barossa Festival and New England Bach Festival. He has also collaborated with many Australian and international artists including Niklas Eklund, Crispian Steele-Perkins and Michael Laird.

In 2004 John Foster travelled to the USA to develop a new Long Model Natural Trumpet with maker Andrew Naumann. He has given masterclasses in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the USA and has appeared on several recordings for film and television.

Anthony Heinrichs: Trumpet

Anthony Heinrichs was born in Perth in 1970 and began playing the trumpet at the age of ten. He studied with Kim Harrison at Hale School, winning several awards, and at the age of 14 he became one of the youngest members of the West Australian Youth Orchestra.

He studied at the Western Australian Conservatorium of Music with Kevin Johnson, and received his Bachelor’s degree in 1991. During this time, he worked regularly with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, performing the Arutiunian Trumpet Concerto, and giving the Australian premiere of Dialogue for Trumpet and Orchestra by Wayne Senior.

Between 1990 and 1993, he played principal trumpet with the Australian Youth Orchestra and Camerata Australia and toured nationally and internationally with these orchestras. He studied with Daniel Mendelow in Canberra, and was Principal Trumpet of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra from 1993 to 1994. He acted as Principal Trumpet at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, where he studied with members of the Vienna Philharmonic and London Symphony orchestras, and travelled to Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1999 to study with Reinhold Friedrich.

A member of Sydney Brass, he gave the premiere of Joe Wolfe’s Trumpet Concerto in 2003, and has performed at the Arcadia Music Festival, with the Frankfurt and Saarbrucken radio symphony orchestras, and as Principal Cornet with the Australian Opera and Ballet Orchestra.

He has taught at St Andrews Cathedral School and the Sydney and Newcastle conservatoriums, and was featured in the Visiting Artist Programme at Hale School in 2008.

Anthony Heinrichs joined the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1995.