Simon Höfele: Top Ten Trompete

Trumpeter Katie Smith has become the fourth generation of her family to join the London Symphony Orchestra, a lineage stretching back to the 1930s. 

Contemporary music theatre seems to be in a state of rude health, and we preview several new stage works soon to hit the boards this coming season at venues and opera houses around the world.

Kaleidoscopic, surreal, uncanny, crystalline, playful and deadly – we survey eight women composers with new works to be premiered in 2024.

A playlist presenting a multiplicity of musics from eight women composers from around the world, with premieres in 2023.

The German composer discusses the long awaited world premiere of his new work Prague Symphony with the Czech Philharmonic, which sets fragments of Franz Kafka for two singers and orchestra.

Established soloist, professor at the Paris Conservatoire and principal trumpet at the Paris Opera Orchestra, Marc Geujon is impassioned by the history of his music, never forgetting his roots.