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Belgian trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts is a musical force to be reckoned with, whose all-embracing love of music knows no boundaries. Praised for his outstanding technical capabilities and sensitive musicality, his repertoire encompasses every epoch, from baroque to contemporary music and jazz.
He has appeared as a soloist with leading orchestras including the NHK Symphony, Vienna Symphony, Konzerthausorchester Berlin, NDR Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestre Philharmoniques of Strasbourg and Luxembourg, under conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Yakov Kreizberg, Jun Märkl, and Matthias Pintscher. He is a regular guest of internationally renowned music festivals such as the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, Niedersächsische Musiktage, the Takefu International Music Festival in Japan, Ars Musica in Belgium, Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the Rheingau Musik Festival.
Reinvigorating the standard repertoire for trumpet with ingenious programmes and unusual contexts has become Jeroen Berwaerts’ calling card. One such programme places Handel’s Feuerwerksmusik and dances from Rameau’s opera Dardarus alongside chansons by Jacques Brel. The singing roles in such programmes is generally taken up by Jeroen Berwaerts himself, who – alongside his active career as a trumpeter – completed jazz vocal studies at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent.
Jeroen Berwaerts’ extraordinary commitment to contemporary music is evident in the numerous world premieres he has given, including Toshio Hosokawa’s second trumpet concerto Im Nebel and Francesco Filidei’s Carnevale. Following Håkan Hardenberger he was the second trumpeter worldwide to add HK Gruber’s Busking (2007) to his repertoire.
Last season he performed Nigredo: The Dark Night of the Soul by Tobias Broström for the third time, together with Håkan Hardenberger and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding. Further highlights were his appearance at the Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele and concerts with Ensemble Resonanz and Alexander Melnikov at the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. This season, concerts are planned with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the wind section of the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, and the WDR Radio House Orchestra, among others.
Jeroen Berwaerts’ discography includes Signals from Heaven, recorded with Salaputia Brass, with whom he is trumpeter, jazz-vocalist, and ensemble director. His recording of Paul Hindemith’s trumpet sonata with Alexander Melnikov was released on Harmonia Mundi in 2015. In 2012 he recorded Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet, and Orchestra under Teodor Currentzis with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the same year he recorded Toshio Hosokawa’s Voyage VII with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.
Jeroen Berwaerts studied with the celebrated trumpet virtuoso Reinhold Friedrich in Karlsruhe. Since 2008, he has been Professor of Trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik in Hannover. He is also Professor in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London and an official Yamaha Artist.
2020/21
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With a clear, flexible tone and brilliant technique, he effortlessly mastered the gleaming key motifs, trills, and runs, while also lending powerful expression to the cantabile themes. DARMSTÄDTER ECHO, on Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto, 20/10/2020
As a soloist, the Belgian trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts – to whom the work is also dedicated – plays with intense musical assuredness. [...] In lieu of virtuosics, Berwaerts performs finely shaded variations of the trumpet's tonal space, which he played in the end without a mouthpiece, dissolving into nothingness, together with the chamber ensemble. SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, on Toshio Hosokawa's trumpet concerto "Voyage VII”, 14/9/2020
Jeroen Berwaerts astonished with an incredibly warm and smooth sound together with a deeply felt approach to melodics. [...] The Andante was especially heartfelt, with Berwaerts drawing out and carrying across the phrasing from his innermost depths. RHEIN-NECKAR-ZEITUNG, 21/2/2020
The concert opened with Haydn’s familiar Trumpet Concerto, in which Berwaerts delivered a captivating solo with luminous brilliance, soaring melodies, and virtuoso flair. […] At the afterparty, listeners were treated to Berwaerts’s elegant singing voice with the Brel songs ‘Marieke’, ‘Mathilde’, ‘Amsterdam’, and ‘Ne me quitte pas’. In his lovely, warm, and supple baritone, he gave a smooth and polished rendition of the songs.
Helsingin Sanomat, 6/12/2019
He excelled (even as a jazz vocalist) (...) Almost casually, he led [us] cleverly and with a rich vocabulary through the program, which Salaputia Brass played with incredible confidence and passion. (...) Bravissimo!
Augsburger Allegemeine, 8/10/2018, Peter Urban
Played with blazing tone by Jeroen Berwaerts, the Trumpet Sonata emerges with particular brilliance. BBC Music Magazine, March 2015, John Allison
The real stars, though, are athletic trombonist Gérard Costes, and trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts, who combines lyrical warmth with an intensity that is often breathtaking. The Guardian, 22/1/2015, Tim Ashley
After the evening in the Laeiszhalle, the audience was above all spellbound by such beautiful music that was never dull but full of spirit and warmth. The soloist Jeroen Berwaerts made two trumpets and a flugelhorn sing in Gruber’s “Busking” with great virtuosity (…) And then, at the end of the concert, Berwaerts started singing. The synthesis of Rameau dance movements and Brel chansons was inspired. There was nothing unoriginal about the way he lit up the concert hall with Brel’s laconic amazement. Die Welt, 5/6/2014
From the first to the last note, initially playing the mouthpiece followed by different trumpets and flugelhorns, the Belgian trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts was captivating. (…) He negotiated the musical cliffs with an ease and radiance that belied the feat that the soloist achieved through his playing. kulturzeitschrift.at, 5/8/2014, Silvia Thurner
This is how the world might have been created: a muffled, resonating gong tone, from which the muted, infinitely fine sound of the trumpet materialises out of nothing. This is exactly how the eagerly awaited concerto by the Japanese composer Toshio Hosokawa begins. He wrote the piece especially for Jeroen Berwaerts. (...) Hosokawa’s walk through the mist, which Berwaerts leads so enchantingly, audibly takes place at the frontier between East and West. Hamburger Abendblatt, 10/3/2014
In Haydn’s trumpet concerto in e-flat minor, Jeroen Berwaerts proved once again that his instrument can do more than play fanfares. When one masters this instrument like Jeroen Berwaerts does, Haydn’s concerto is a pearl - a musical stroke of genius that strikes a perfect balance between soloistic virtuosity and harmonious cooperation. Kölner Zeitung, 25/8/2008
Harrison BIRTWISTLE | Endless Parade for trumpet, strings and vibraphon (1986-87) |
H.K. GRUBER | Busking for trumpet, accordion, banjo and string orchestra |
3 MOB pieces for trumpet and ensemble | |
Toshio HOSOKAWA | Voyage VII for trumpet, strings and percussion (2005 dedicated to Jeroen Berwaerts) |
Dmitri D. Shostakovich | Concerto in c minor, op. 35 for piano, trumpet and strings |
Peter EÖTVÖS | Snatches of a Conversation |
Francesco FILIDEI | Ballata N. 5 Carnevale |
Joseph HAYDN | Concerto in E flat major, Hob. VIIe 1 |
Michael HAYDN | Concerto in C major for trumpet, 2 flutes, strings and basso continuo |
Charles IVES | The Unanswered Question |
György LIGETI | Mysteries of the Macabre (1992) |
Leopold MOZART | Concerto in D major |
Georg Philip TELEMANN | Concerto in D major |
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Tobias BROSTRÖM | Lucernaris - Concerto for trumpet, Live-Electronics and orchestra (2009) |
Nigredo : The Dark Night of the Soul - Double concerto for two trumpets and orchestra (2019) | |
Brett DEAN | Dramatis personae -for trumpet and orchestra (2013) |
Peter EÖTVÖS | Jet Stream Trumpet Concerto (2002) |
H.K. GRUBER | Aerial Concerto (1998-1999) |
Iain HAMILTON | Circus for 2 trumpets and orchestra |
Hans Werner HENZE | Neun geistliche Konzerte for piano, trumpet, and orchestra |
Toshio HOSOKAWA | Im Nebel Trumpet Concerto (2013, dedicated to Jeroen Berwaerts) |
Johann Nepomuk HUMMEL | Concerto in E major |
György LIGETI | Mysteries of the Macabre |
Matthias PINTSCHER | Chute d'etoiles (stars falling) for two trumpets and orchestra (2012) |
Wolfgang RIHM | Marsyus Rhapsody for trumpet with percussion and orchestra |
Mark-Anthony TURNAGE | Dispelling the Fears for two trumpets and orchestra (1995) |
From the Wreckage | |
Bernd Alois ZIMMERMANN | Nobody knows de trouble I see - Concerto |
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Jean-Baptiste ARBAN | Fantaisie et Variations sur le Carneval de Venise in E-flat major |
Luciano BERIO | Sequenza X |
Leonard BERNSTEIN | Rondo for Lifey |
Marcel BITSCH | Quatre variations sur un Théme de Domenico Scarlatti |
Oskar BÖHME | Concerto in f minor, op.18 |
Jacques BREL | Ne me quitte pas |
Mathilde | |
Amsterdam | |
Vassily BRANDT | Concert Pieces Op.11 and Op.12 |
Theo CHARLIER | Solo de Concours |
Deuxiéme Solo de concours | |
Georges ENESCU | Légende |
Jean FRANCAIX | Sonatina |
Sonatine pour trompette et piano | |
Alexander GLAZUNOV | Album Leaf |
Sofia GUBAIDULINA | Lied ohne Worte |
Paul HINDEMITH | Trumpet Sonata |
Arthur HONEGGER | Intrada |
Carl HÖHNE | Slavonic Fantasy |
Jaques IBERT | Impromptu |
André JOLIVET | Air de Bravoure |
György LIGETI | Mysteries of the Macabre |
Bohuslav MARTINU | Sonatina |
Davis Peter MAXWELL | Sonata |
Maurice RAVEL | Piéce en Forme de Habanera |
Florent SCHMITT | Suite Op.133 |
Nikos SKALKOTTAS | Concertino |
Halsey STEVENS | Sonata |
Heinrich SUTERMEISTER | Gavotte de concert |
Jean-Baptiste ARBAN | Thema et Variations sur Le Carnaval de Venice |
Variations sur La Norma de Vincenzo Bellini | |
Fantasie Brillante | |
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Johann Sebastian BACH | Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 3 |
Toshio HOSOKAWA | New Work for recorder and strings |
Toshio HOSOKAWA | Voyage VII for trumpet, strings and percussion (2005) |
Johann Sebastian BACH | Brandenburg Concerto Nr. 2 |
Georg Philipp TELEMANN | Concerto in D major for trumpet and strings |
Georg Philipp TELEMANN | Ouverture Les Nations in B-flat major |
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU/Jacques BREL | Dances from Platee and Chansons by Jacques Brel (Ne me quitte pas and La Quête) |
Georg Friedrich HÄNDEL | Suite in D major from Water Music for trumpet, strings and b.c. | |
Jean-Philippe RAMEAU/Jacques BREL | Dances from Dardanus and Chansons by Jacques Brel (Marieke, Mathilde and Amsterdam) | |
Alternatives first part | ||
HK GRUBER | Busking for trumpet, banjo, accordion and strings | |
HK GRUBER | ||
György LIGETI | Mob Pieces andMysteries of the Macabre |
T?ru TAKEMITSU | Signals from Heaven - Day Signal |
Giovanni GABRIELI | Canzon primi toni (C170) |
Duke ELLINGTON | from Sacred Concerts: Come Sunday |
(arr. Boris Netsvetaev) | |
Giovanni GABRIELI | Canzon (C194) |
Spiritual | Sometimes I feel like a motherless child |
(arr. Boris Netsvetaev) | |
T?ru TAKEMITSU | Signals from Heaven - Night signal |
Spiritual | Swing Lord Sweet chariot |
Giovanni GABRIELI | Canzon noni toni (C173) |
T?ru TAKEMITSU | Garden Rain |
Spiritual | Nobody knows the Trouble I See |
(arr. Boris Netsvetaev) | |
Giovanni GABRIELI | Canzon septimi toni (C172) |
George GERSHWIN | Summertime (arr. Boris Netsvetaev) |
Jeroen Berwaerts, Salaputia Brass
audite, 2017, 97.725
Jeroen Berwaerts, Kenichi Nakagawa
Nihon Acoustic Records, 2016
Jeroen Berwaerts, Isabelle Faust, Teunis van der Zwart, Alexander Rudin, Gerard Costes, Alexander Melnikov
Harmonia Mundi, 2015
Jeroen Berwaerts, Constantin Ribbentrop, Johannes Unger, NDR Brass
Fibonacci, 2015
Jeroen Berwaerts, Alexander Melnikov, Isabelle Faust, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis
Harmonia Mundi, 2012, LC 7045
Jeroen Berwaerts, Olivier Dartevelle, Rohan de Saram, Orchestre Philharmonique Du Luxembourg, Robert HP Platz
NEOS, 2012, LC 15673
The trumpet player Jeroen Berwaerts juggles many balls at once – as a soloist he performs the most virtuosic contemporary trumpet concertos, he is writing a yoga-inspired book on the art of breathing, and develops new and exciting programmes for the recitals he gives with a variety of smaller ensembles. In the following interview, he explains what connects him to the brass band tradition and why singing became an essential part of his trumpet recitals. We met Jeroen Berwaerts at the Bregenz Festival....