Concertpiece No. 1, Op. 11 - SMCRMR02 | Muziek

In 1979, Cindy Mikel, a dear friend and fellow student of Mark Rogers dating from their student days at Texas Tech University, was invited by BU Marocco, her high school band director at Lewisville, Texas, to return to her old school and perform as a soloist with the band. One of the pieces that she had perfomed with great success while a student at Texas Tech was Willy Brandt' s "Concertpiece No. 1, Op. 11". She asked Mark Rogers to prepare a band version of the accompaniment for her use, and this score is the result of that request. It is with warm feelings after many years of friendsliip that this score is inscribed to Cindy Mikel.

German composer Karl Wilhelm Brandt (1896-1923) emigrated to Russia as a teenager, where he changed his name to Vassily Georgivich Brandt. He played trumpet in the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra from 1890 to 1909, serving as principal trumpet there from 1895. In 1900 he joinedthe faculty of the Moscow Conservatory as professor of trumpet. He left there in 1912 to assume a similar position at the Saratov Conservatory . He held that position until his death in 1923. Brandt is well known in trompet circles (sometimes under the German version of his name, Willy Brandt) as a composer of pedagogical works and short solo pieces for trumpet . "Concertpiece No. 1, Op. 11" is one of his most famous compositions.