Allen Vizzutti

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Allen Vizzutti (born September 13, 1952 in Missoula , Montana ) is an American trumpeter , composer and music teacher .

Life

Vizzutti learned to play the trumpet from his father Lido Vizzutti. He graduated with a Bachelor of Music , Master of Music and Instrumental Music degree , and he was the only wind instrument player to date to receive the Artist's Diploma from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester , New York.

Allen Vizzutti plays both classical music and jazz and has worked with a wide variety of artists including Chick Corea , Chuck Mangione , Doc Severinsen , Frank Sinatra , Prince , The Commodores , Woody Herman . As a soloist, he has performed at the Hollywood Bowl , Carnegie Hall , Newport Jazz Festival , Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Montreux Jazz Festival , Charles Ives Center and Lincoln Center in New York.

Vizzutti has contributed to the recording of more than 100 film scores, including Back to the Future , Star Trek , Rocky II , Poltergeist II - The Other Side , Fire Fox , Dirty Harry Comes Back , Ten - The Dream Woman , News Fever - Broadcast News , The electric rider and 1941 - Where are you going to Hollywood .

He is also the composer of numerous orchestral works that have premiered by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra , Phoenix Symphony Orchestra , Greater Bridgeport Symphony Orchestra, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra and the Tonight Show Band , among others . He has also made recordings with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra , the Woody Herman Band, Summit Brass and the London Symphony Orchestra . He has worked as a guest soloist with symphony orchestras around the world, including the Japanese NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Tōkyō Kōsei Wind Orchestra .

Vizzutti is a professor of trumpet at the University of Washington School of Music. He has also taught at the Eastman School of Music , the Banff Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas State University , West Texas State University , the Skidmore Jazz Institute , and the Trompeten Akademie Bremen in Germany. He is a regular lecturer at the American Band College at Southern Oregon University .

Vizzutti is a composer and a member of Ars Nova Press, Inc., a non-profit publisher dedicated to promoting high quality compositions by contemporary composers.

The Allen-Vizzutti method for trumpet is an internationally widespread educational concept for learning to play the trumpet. Many of Vizzutti's jazz and classical music publications, play-along recordings, works for music students, chamber music, and lecture works have been published by the music publishers Alfred, Southern Music Company, and DeHaske / Hal Leonard Publications. He designed and realized the instructional video "Steps to Excellence" for the Yamaha Corporation of America.

Compositions

Orchestral works

  • A night in Tunisia
  • Aventura Espanola , for trumpet and orchestra
  • Conversations , for trumpet and orchestra
  • Esperance , for trumpet and orchestra
  • Snow Scenes , for trumpet and orchestra
  • The Emerald Concerto and Other Gems , for trumpet and orchestra
    1. Emerald Concerto
    2. Conversations
    3. Esperance
    4. Aventura Espanola
    5. Snow Scenes
  • The Carnival of Venus , for trumpet and orchestra

Works for symphonic wind orchestra

  • American Jazz Suite , for trumpet and symphonic wind orchestra
  • Celebration , for two trumpets and symphonic wind orchestra
  • Concert Etude
  • High class brass
  • Montana Sketches , for trumpet and symphonic wind orchestra
    1. Big Sky
    2. Mountain dance
  • Prism: Shards of Color for Brass and Percussion , for brass quintet and band
  • Space
  • The Rising Sun , for trumpet and symphonic wind orchestra
    1. Fuji-san (Mount Fuji)
    2. Kyoto no Otera (The Temples of Kyoto)
    3. Shinkansen (The Bullet Train)

Chamber music

  • 20 caprices , for trumpet
  • Andante and Cappriccio , for trumpet and piano
  • Dynamic Dances , for flute
  • Explorations , 8 pieces for trumpet
  • Metropolis , for trumpet and piano
  • Mosaic , for 6 trumpets
  • Prelude and Presto , for brass quintet
  • Square , for trumpet and piano
  • Rain Forest , for trumpet and piano
  • Sonata , for flute and harp
  • Sonata no. 1 , for trumpet and piano
  • Sonata no. 2 , for trumpet and piano
  • Sonata no. 3 , for trumpet and piano
  • The Enchanted Trumpet , for trumpet and piano
  • The Orient , for trumpet and piano
  • The Sea , for trumpet and piano
  • Timbuktu , for trumpet and piano
  • Trumpeter's Dream , for trumpet and piano
  • Vizzutti meets Arban

Piano works

  • Appassionata

Educational works

  • Jazz Adventures
  • Jazz Solos Grade 4
  • New Concepts for Trumpet
  • The Allen Vizzutti Trumpet Method (in three parts)

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personal data
SURNAME Vizzutti, Allen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trumpeter
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Missoula