Artists - Yamaha

Jan van Duikeren

recording artist, soloist, composer

Rui Travasso

Clarinet player on “Orquestra Classica do Sul” and teacher in the Loulé- Francisco Rosado conservatory

Bernhard Röthlisberger

Bernhard Röthlisberger is principal clarinet and bass clarinet player in Berner Symphonieorchester (Bern, Switzerland) and teacher at Zurich, Bern and Lucerne Conservatoires.

Russell Gray

Free lance musician performing on Cornet and also Conductor

Henk van Twillert

Tutor of saxophone at the Superior School of Music, Performing Arts in Porto

Randy Brecker

A seasoned jazz veteran, virtuosic trumpeter and prolific composer, Randy Brecker’s horn has graced the bandstands and recordings of Horace Silver, Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers, Charles Mingus, Clark Terry, Joe Henderson, Duke Pearson, Frank Foster and Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra. As a first call studio player, Brecker’s trumpet has also energized innumerable studio sessions by artists ranging from James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Parliament-Funkadelic to David Sanborn, Jaco Pastorius, and Frank Zappa.

Lars Karlin

Lars Karlin is a Swedish trombonist and arranger living in Berlin, Germany. He started trombone studies at the age of twelve under Hans-Göran Olson at the Music School in Borlänge, Sweden.

Otis Murphy

Born in 1972, Otis Murphy joined the faculty of the Indiana University School of Music in 2001 at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest faculty members in the history of the IU School of Music.

Sarah Markham

Sarah Markham is at the forefront of the Classical Saxophone in the UK, teaching at many of the top musical institutions across the country, as well as being a very active performing and recording saxophonist.

Håkan Björkman

Principal trombone Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, principal trombone the Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Assistant professor the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.