Thomas Hooten - trumpet, Rebecca Wilt, piano
Includes works by Arthur Honegger, Oskar Bohme, Marcel Bitsch, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Alfred Desenclos, Kenneth Downie
A tour de force from one of America’s premier young trumpet players, ‘Trumpet Call’ is a must-have recording for aspiring trumpeters, and anyone who would like to experience the power of virtuoso brass playing
THOMAS HOOTEN is Principal Trumpet of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He can be heard on numerous LA Phil recordings, including Mahler’s Ninth Symphony and Lutoslawski’s Symphony No. 1. He has also recorded Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy and Gandolfi’s Garden of Cosmic Speculation with the Atlanta Symphony. Prior to joining the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Hooten served as Principal Trumpet in the Atlanta Symphony from 2006-2012. He released Trumpet Call, his first solo album, in 2011.