Trumpet

Since his success at the ARD Competition in 1986, Reinhold Friedrich has been playing on the world’s most important stages. He performs worldwide as a soloist on the modern and historical trumpet with numerous renowned orchestras such as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Wiener Symphoniker, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the under the direction of Sir Andras Schiff, Andris Nelsons, Manfred Honeck, Sir George Benjamin and many others. Since the foundation of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in 2003, he has been permanent principal trumpet, first under Claudio Abbado, and now under Riccardo Chailly, as well as artistic director of the Lucerne Festival Orchestra Brass. Reinhold Friedrich is professor of trumpet at the Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe and honorary professor at the Escuela Superior de Musica REINA SOFIA in Madrid and at Barenboim- Said-Akademy in Berlin. As part of his involvement in contemporary compositions, he has premiered a large number of works by Wolfgang Rihm, Hans Werner Henze, Luciano Berio, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies among others. Numerous recordings for labels such as ARS, DG, Capriccio, MDG, and Sony document his work and were awarded prestigious prizes such as Echo Klassik and Deutscher Schallplattenpreis. He performed with NHK Orchestra under the direction of Andrés Orozco-Estrada in Tokyo and Tel Aviv, and the participate in a staged performance of Stravinsky’s “Histoire du soldat” at the Salzburg Festival, alongside Isabelle Faust (violin) and Dominique Horwitz (narrator), in a co-production with the Salzburg Marionette Theatre in recent years.