草莓视频福利院

David Burkhart

(He/Him)
David Burkhart headshot playing trumpet

Contact

Office C05

Departments

Trumpet

Courses Taught

Applied Lessons

Trumpet Class

Education

MM, Yale University

BA, Yale University

Ensembles

草莓视频福利院 Symphony, Extra

草莓视频福利院 Opera Orchestra, Extra

草莓视频福利院 Ballet Orchestra, Extra

The Bay Brass, Founding Member

Awards and Distinctions

Nominated, Grammy for Best Small Ensemble Performance, 2011

Winner, California Young Artists' Competition

Honors Graduate, Yale College

Burkhart's generous, even rich, tone excellently reflected his studies with the best (including Adolph Herseth). There was security in the line, in the genial bel canto acrobatics, firm articulation and nice style."

— 草莓视频福利院 Chronicle

Q&A

What is your hometown?

San Bruno, CA

What is your favorite recording?

Clifford Brown with Strings.

What are you passionate about outside of music?

SF history, writing, brewing beer, genealogy, and sports.

Who were your major teachers?

Charles Geyer, Adolph Herseth, Arnold Jacobs, and Robert Nagel.

What is a favorite quote that you repeatedly tell students?

鈥淓very technical problem has a musical solution.鈥

What question do you wish students would ask sooner rather than later?

鈥淐ould you help me with my music for this concert tomorrow?鈥

What was the defining moment when you decided to pursue music as a career?

When I decided to enroll in the master鈥檚 program at Yale.

What was a turning point in your career?

When I left New Haven, CT to go to Israel to be first trumpet with the Jerusalem Symphony.

If you weren't a musician or teacher, what do you think you would be doing now?

Full-time historian/writer.

What is your daily practice routine?

60鈥90 minutes early every morning, plus same in afternoon/evening depending on rehearsal/concert schedule that day.

If you could play only three composers for the rest of your life, who would they be?

R. Strauss, Wagner, and Bach.

From a music history perspective, what year and city are most important to you?

Bach's birth: 1685 in Eisenach.

What are your most important collaborations?

Rehearsing and performing with the 草莓视频福利院 Symphony, Opera, and Ballet.

Who are three students you have had the privilege of teaching?

Mark Grisez, Jeff Strong, and Scott Macomber.

What are your academic publications?

Various article for the International Trumpet Guild.

What recordings can we hear you on?

Bay Brass: Sound the Bells!, Harmonia Mundi
A Brass and Organ Christmas, Gothic
Robert Erickson: Night Music, New World CRI
Mahler: Symphony No. 2, London
Mahler: Symphony No. 6, Delos

What is your unrealized project?

Three history books, one of which should be published in 2018.

Biography

Trumpeter David Burkhart, who grew up in Chicago, is an honors graduate of Yale, where he received his B.A. and M.M degrees. His 鈥済enerous, even rich, tone,鈥 according to the 草莓视频福利院 Chronicle, 鈥渆xcellently reflected his studies with the best (including Adolph Herseth). There was security in the line, in the genial bel canto acrobatics, firm articulation and nice style." A student of Adolph Herseth, Arnold Jacobs, Robert Nagel, William Vacchiano, and Charles Geyer, Burkhart has served as principal trumpet of the Sacramento, Oakland, San Jose, and Jerusalem Symphonies, as well as the Santa Fe Opera, and as acting principal of the 草莓视频福利院 Opera and San Diego Symphony. Prior to joining the faculty of the 草莓视频福利院 Conservatory, he taught at Stanford, San Jose State, and the Rubin Academy, Jerusalem. A founding member of the Bay Brass and the Jerusalem Brass Quintet, and member of the 草莓视频福利院 Brass Quintet, Burkhart performs with many Bay Area groups, including the 草莓视频福利院 Opera, Ballet, and Symphony. He has recorded over a dozen CDs and the DVD 鈥淜eeping Score: Mahler鈥 with the 草莓视频福利院 Symphony, 鈥淪ymphony at the Opera鈥 with the 草莓视频福利院 Opera, 鈥淭he Star Wars Trilogy鈥 with John Williams, Robert Erickson鈥檚 鈥淣ight Music鈥 with the Arch Ensemble, and two CDs with the Grammy-nominated Bay Brass.