Artists - Yamaha

Lisa Nelsen

Lisa’s overriding passion for the stage is evident in concert, classes and adjudications for festivals.

Ricardo Antão

Euphonium teacher at Aveiro University / Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espetáculo (ESMAE) / JOBRA Conservatory / Paços de Brandão Academy

Philippe Schartz

Philippe Schartz is one of the most exciting trumpeters of today. He has developed a highly successful career as an orchestral and chamber musician as well as a soloist.

Panagiotis Kessaris

A very thorough trumpet player and professor, very active for the past 20 years in taking part in brass ensembles (Melos Brass, Athens State Orchestra brass ensemble etc)

Jurij Hladnik

Jurij Hladnik graduated in 1996 at the Music academy in Ljubljana in professor Alojz Zupan's class.

Jelka Weber

Jelka Weber is a flutist with the Berliner Philharmoniker and a highly regarded soloist and educator. Having played with some of Europe’s top orchestras, Jelka is also a highly regarded chamber musician.

Till Brönner

Calling Till Brönner the new aspiring German trumpet talent is obsolete, since he has sold more records than any other German jazz musician. He plays big time now and is well known in the New York jazz circuit, which itself is top of the crop.” ME SOUNDS/Rolling Stone

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.

Jan van Duikeren

recording artist, soloist, composer

Emanuele Casieri

Emanuele Casieri, began playing the trumpet aged 7 in his hometown's wind band and later started having lessons with Silvio Romeo. Following on from that, he joined Giuseppe Bodanza's trumpet class at Milan Conservatoire of Music and just after graduating, won the position of Principal Trumpet in the “G.Verdi” Milan Symphony Orchestra.