Berne Symphonic Wind Orchestra

Our soloist


(Foto: Bruno Bonansea)

as a soloist with ensembles such as the Sinfonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra in Hamburg, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester of Berlin, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, the NDR Philharmonic Orchestra in Hanover, the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the Zurich Chamber Orchestra, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra, the Moscow Soloists, the Basle Chamber Orchestra, the MDR Symphony Orchestra in Leipzig, and the symphony orchestras of the Czech and Polish broadcasting corporations. In 2015 he performed Shostakovich’s Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings by Shostakovich, with Martha Argerich and the Symphony Orchestra of Santa Cecilia in Rome under the baton of Yuri Temirkanov.

Giuliano Sommerhalder’s discography includes three solo albums: „Romantic Virtuosity“, a collection of virtuosic masterpieces of the german-russian Romanticism; „Amilcare Ponchielli – Concertos“, dedicated to the great Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886); as well as “Vladimir Peskin – Complete Trumpet Music” with this Soviet composer’s enormous compositive output for trumpet and piano (with pianist Kasia Wieczorek). In 2012, the Ponchielli Album was awarded the prestigious ECHO-Klassik Music Prize in the category “Concerto Recording of the Year / 19th Century”. He is also featured in four albums of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, performing J.-S. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 and the Christmas Oratorio, among others. On baroque trumpet, he has recorded Johann Friedrich Fasch’s Trumpet Concerto in D Major with the Kammerorchester Basel.

Giuliano Sommerhalder is a highly requested pedagogue throughout the World: Since 2019 he is the trumpet lecturer at the Hochschule der Künste Bern (HKB) and gives a yearly trumpet course at AIMART, Accademia Internazionale di Musica e Arte, in Rome. He is the founder and Artistic Director of the “Girolamo Fantini” International Trumpet Competition, which takes place in downtown Rome every two years since 2017. Furthermore, he is Artistic Advisor and permanent guest professor at the annual Festival Rafael Méndez in Morelia, Mexico.

Further informations:
Website of Giuliano Sommerhalder