This episode is mostly a conversation tracing the differences and similarities between the Piano and Trumpet competition worlds, their repertoire, and some of the complicated realities of the field. We’re talking about the REAL trumpet competitions hosted in Europe, where participants have to learn an average of 6–8 major trumpet works, not those rather simplistic events hosted in America like the National Trumpet Competition and the one hosted by the International Trumpet Guild.

Lucas and Mickael are both active members of the competition community, and so I offer my voice when needed to speak the truth of the harsh and often unacceptable realities of this treacherous world, as I have no interest in joining in it.

Perhaps if we can all speak more openly in public about what we all talk about in private, we too will reveal the tiny men and women behind the curtain of these events, which too often leave us speechless…and not often for the right reasons.

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