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He was a trumpeter and teacher who studied at the
University of Hartford's Julius Hartt School of Music and the Curtis
Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
Although having played Principal Trumpet with the New Orleans
Philharmonic and the Florida Philharmonic and soloist with the Ballet Russa
de Monte Carlo, he is best remembered as the solo trumpet of the
Philadelphia Orchestra from 1958 to 1975. He was also a member of the
extremely successful Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, which was made up
musicians from that orchestra and with them he would receive two Grammy
Awards. Having made over 800
solo recordings with the Philadelphia Orchestra alone, he appears with them
on Risaager's Concertino, Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet and
Handel's Messiah, Debut! Mancini Conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra
Pops and other recordings include Hindemith's Sonata for Trumpet
with Glenn Gould and the Grammy Award winning The
Glorious Sound of Brass and The
Antiphonal Music of Antonio Gabrieli with the Philadelphia Brass
Ensemble. In 1975 he moved
into the field of musical education by joining the faculty of the
University if Miami as Professor of Trumpet and stayed there for the rest
of his life. He also gave regular masterclasses through the United States. He died in 2002 of kidney
cancer. He was 74 years of
age.
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble recordings
Angels We Have Heard on
High (Traditional French/James
Chadwick/Edward Barnes)
CBS MK 7033 (CD: A Festival of Carols in Brass)
Sources:
- http://www.trumpetguild.org/news/news02/johnson.htm
- http://www.music.miami.edu/faculty/mip/johnson/johnson.html
- http://www.trumpetguild.org/conferences/conference99/friday/f14e.htm
- http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Gilbert%20Johnson:1927496892
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