UMass Trumpeter Eric Berlin Featured on New Album Celebrating Christopher Rouse Concertos

Eric Berlin

Trumpeter Eric Berlin, professor in the Department of Music and Dance, is featured on "Christopher Rouse: Concertos," a new album of performances by the Albany Symphony Orchestra recently released by Albany Records.<_o3a_p>

Berlin is principal trumpet of the Albany Symphony and assistant principal trumpet of the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra. Rouse, winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize in Music, was one of America's most prominent composers. Three of his concertos - for trumpet, oboe, and bassoon - are included in the new recording, under the direction of conductor David Alan Miller.

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In addition to Berlin's performances on "Heimdall's Trumpet," the album features Katherine Needleman, principal oboist of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, on "Oboe Concerto" and bassoonist Peter Kolkay, a member of the faculty at Vanderbilt University, on "Bassoon Concerto."<_o3a_p>

The full album, "Christopher Rouse Concertos," can be heard in its entirety on YouTube. It can also be streamed via various platforms or purchased on the Albany Records website.<_o3a_p>

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