Belgian trumpeter Jeroen Berwaerts is a
musical powerhouse
whose all-encompassing love for music knows no genre boundaries.
Highly esteemed
worldwide for his exceptional technical skills and sensitive
musicality, he
explores repertoire spanning all eras, from Baroque to
contemporary music and
jazz. As a soloist, Jeroen Berwaerts has performed with leading
orchestras
including the NHK Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Symphony, Swedish
Radio Symphony
Orchestra, NDR Symphony Orchestra, Het Residentie Orkest,
Belgian National
Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Konzerthausorchester
Berlin,
Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia, Malmö Symphony Orchestra,
Australian Chamber
Orchestra and Orchestre Philharmonique de Luxembourg. He has
collaborated with
conductors such as Alan Gilbert, Daniel Harding, Markus Stenz,
Jun Märkl, Paavo
Järvi, Jaap van Zweden and Matthias Pintscher. He is a regular
guest at
internationally renowned festivals including the
Schleswig-Holstein Musik
Festival, BBC Proms, Takefu International Music Festival in
Japan, Domaine
Forget International Festival in Canada, Ars Musica in Belgium,
Heidelberg
Spring, and Rheingau Musik Festival. In the 2025/26 season,
Jeroen Berwaerts
will premiere a new trumpet concerto composed for him by Britta
Byström with the
Camerata Bern in October. He will also perform Shostakovich's
Opus 35 alongside
Alexander Melnikov in his debut with the Orchestre de Chambre de
Paris, and
alongside Igor Levit and Alexander Lonquich with the Mahler
Chamber Orchestra at
the Vienna Musikverein, the Elbphilharmonie and the Philharmonie
Berlin. Guest
engagements will also take him back to the Slovenian
Philharmonic Orchestra and
the Bochum Symphony Orchestra. Jeroen Berwaerts is known for
reinvigorating the
standard trumpet repertoire by placing it in dramaturgically
sophisticated,
unusual contexts. For instance, he can be heard playing
Francaix's Sonatine and
Enescu's Légende alternating with jazz standards interpreted by
his jazz
quartet. Occasionally, he also takes on the vocal part –
parallel to his rapid
career as a trumpeter, he completed a degree in jazz singing at
the Royal
Conservatory in Ghent. His extraordinary commitment to
contemporary music is
evident in numerous world premieres, He is the second trumpeter
worldwide to
include HK Gruber's extremely virtuoso composition Busking in
his repertoire. In
2019, Jeroen Berwaerts premiered Tobias Broström's double
concerto for two
trumpets, Nigredo: The Dark Night of the Soul, together with
Håkan Hardenberger.
His most important premieres also include Francesco Filidei's
Carnevale, Vito
Žuraj's Le fou triste and Toshio Hosokawa's trumpet concerto Im
Nebel. He
recorded the latter on CD in June 2024 together with the
Residentie Orkest under
Jun Märkl. Prior to that, he appeared as a trumpeter, jazz
vocalist and ensemble
leader on the album Signals from Heaven, produced in 2017 with
the Salaputia
Brass ensemble. Jeroen Berwaerts studied with the renowned
trumpet virtuoso
Reinhold Friedrich in Karlsruhe. Since 2008, he has served as
Professor of
Trumpet at the Hanover University of Music, Drama, and Media. He
is also
Professor in Residence at the Royal Academy of Music in London
and an official
Yamaha Artist.
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