During his 2023 US visit Valentin Garvie will offer a concert of new music for trumpet and trumpet and electronics. 

Valentin Garvie is an internationally renown trumpet soloist/composer who straddles the worlds of Classical, Contemporary Music and Jazz in a versatile and original way.

He studied Orchestral Conducting at Universidad Católica Argentina in Buenos Aires whilst studying trumpet with Rafael Morelli and composition with Marcelo Perticone. He then pursued a Postgraduate Performance Course in Trumpet at the Royal Academy of Music in London with teachers John Wallace and Howard Snell.

From 2002 to 2017 he held the trumpet position at the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, working and collaborating with the main composers and conductors of our times including Pierre Boulez, Beat Furrer, George Benjamin, Helmut Lachenmann, etc.

He has been invited by symphony orchestras such as Hessischer Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester , the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. He has been a member of ensembles such as Worldbrass and Banda Antix and has performed Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto Nr 2 with many chamber orchestras around Europe.

Valentin is also very active as a jazz soloist . He was a member of Hessischer Rundfunk Jazz Ensemble as a composer/instrumentalist and continues to play with many important figures of the german jazz scene. In 2015 he was awarded the Hessischer Jazz Preis.

In 2017 he relocated to Mar del Plata, Argentina where he continues to develop his career as a soloist, chamber musician, jazz soloist, composer and educator.

He was awarded the “Konex” prize for his role as an outstanding wind player of Argentina in the decade 2009-2019.

He is increasingly active as a composer and leader of collaborative projects. In May 2019 during a residency in Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires he lead a collaborative adapation of Bernd Alois Zimmerman ´s Trumpet Concerto and Alvin Curran ´s Fakebook. The last of which he has also coordinated as artistic director with the Ensemble Modern. He has performed with various symphony orchestras his composition “Cuatro piezas para trompeta y orquesta”. In 2020 he coordinated/lead a project based on the work of composer Gerardo Gandini in the Centro de Experimentación del Teatro Colón. He has recently premiered his “Concierto” (versión para trompeta, saxo y gran órgano) at the main hall of Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires in march 2022. 

About the piece: Contrafactum is based on a bicinia by Orlando de Lassus. Similar to a a jazz contrafact, Contrafactum evolves after a reestablished framework. 

The composition is for two trumpets, the artists for the premiere will be Valentin Garvie and Arthur Zanin.