School of Music
J. Roderick MacDonald

Roderick MacDonald
Trumpet

Roderick.MacDonald@fredonia.edu

Mason Hall 1009
716-673-4646 phone
716-673-3154 fax

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Bio:

Mr. MacDonald's has appeared worldwide as a trumpet soloist. His concert career as soloist began after Kurt Masur, then Music Director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, appointed him Principal Trumpet of that orchestra in 1989. Since then, Mr. MacDonald has performed as soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Japan Philharmonic, Virtuosi Saxonia, Bach Collegium Munich, Leipzig Bach Orchestra, Leipzig Chamber Orchestra, Concerto Leipzig, Kammerphilharmonie Leipzig, and the Super World Orchestra (Tokyo). The most recent of his many solo recordings was named "CD of the Month" by Naxos in December 2003. In July/August 2003, the American Record Guide wrote: "MacDonald is an outstanding player who strives more for elegance and grace" "His style is regal and vocal, and his sweet tone is rounder and darker than we usually hear from trumpet players, baroque or otherwise. I would call it the quintessential German sound - from an American trumpet player..."