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For this year’s edition of Brassweek, three more professors will be participating:<\/p>\n
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Gianluca Calise began playing the trumpet at the age of nine and was taught by Anton Ludwig Wilhalm at the Upper Engadine Music School. In 2013 he began studying music at the Basel University of Music with Prof. Klaus Schuhwerk, graduating with honours in 2020.<\/p>\n
He gained his first orchestral experience in various youth orchestras and was accepted into the Orchestra Academy at Zurich Opera House in 2016. In 2017 he played for a year with Oslo Philharmonic before becoming principal trumpet with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2018.
In addition to his work in the orchestra, he performs as a soloist and chamber musician.<\/p>\n
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Matthias Kowalczyk, born in Bochum in 1988, received his first trumpet lessons at the age of 6 and was already a young student at the age of 15, first at the Robert Schumann-Hochschule in D\u00fcsseldorf, then he transferred to the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Darstellende Kunst Frankfurt in the class of Prof. Klaus Schuhwerk.<\/p>\n
Since 2010 Matthias Kowalczyk has been engaged as principal trumpet in the \u201cFrankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra\u201d as well as in the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. He regularly makes guest appearances with renowned orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic, the Bavarian State Orchestra of the Munich State Opera, the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester Hamburg, the Deutsches Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin, the WDR Sinfonieorchester K\u00f6ln and the HR Sinfonieorchester Frankfurt.<\/p>\n
As a soloist he has already performed with renowned German orchestras such as the \u201cRundfunkorchester M\u00fcnchen\u201d, the \u201cFrankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester\u201d, as well as the \u201cPhilharmonisches Staatsorchester Mainz\u201d, in which he was also a scholarship holder in the 2009\/2010 season.<\/p>\n
In 2023 he was appointed honorary professor at the Mainz University of Music.<\/p>\n
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Image: Bogdan Kisch<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”3_5,2_5″ admin_label=”Louise Pollock” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Louise Pollock is Principal trombone with the Gothenburg Opera in Sweden and faculty member at the Gothenburg University Academy of Music and Drama. She has been awarded numerous prizes, such as the 1st Prize and Audience Prize at the International Aeolus Competition for Wind Instruments 2016 or the prestigious \u201dStipendium des Deutschen Musikwettbewerbs\u201d at the Deutscher Musikwettbewerb 2014. She is often invited to judge competitions, for example the ITA competition, and give masterclasses and has been featured as an artist at numerous festivals, for example at the Tourbon Brass Festival in Chile, Bjergsted Brass Festival Stavanger in Norway, Tromboholizm Poland or the International Trombone Festival. She is honored to be part of the Board of Advisors of the International Trombone Association. [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/brassweek.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/pollock-louise-1.jpg” title_text=”pollock-louise” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For this year’s edition of Brassweek, three more professors will be participating:Gianluca Calise Gianluca Calise began playing the trumpet at the age of nine and was taught by Anton Ludwig Wilhalm at the Upper Engadine Music School. In 2013 he began studying music at the Basel University of Music with Prof. Klaus Schuhwerk, graduating with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1108"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1132,"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1108\/revisions\/1132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brassweek.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Louise Pollock, Trombone<\/h2>\n
She has performed as a soloist throughout Europe with orchestras such as the D\u00fcsseldorfer Symphoniker, Z\u00fcrcher Kammerorchester, Opera Orchestra Gothenburg, Bjergsted Bl\u00e5sensemble or the Duisburger Philharmoniker. Before her position in Gothenburg she played with the Stuttgarter Philharmoniker (Germany) for three years.<\/p>\n
Louise studied at the Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik Freiburg i.Br., Germany, with Professor Branimir Slokar, where she received her Bachelor of Music with distinction. She then went on to study with Prof. Henning Wiegr\u00e4be at the Staatliche Hochschule f\u00fcr Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart, Germany (Master of Music).<\/p>\n
Louise is a Conn Artist and performs exclusively on a Conn 88H that was built in the early 1950s.<\/p>\n