David Guerrier, trumpet

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As Winner of the first Young Concert Artists European Auditions held in Paris and the 2003 Young Concert Artists International Auditions in New York, Mr. Guerrier gave his first performances in the U.S. in 2004: his Washington, DC debut at the Kennedy Center, sponsored by the Alexander Kasza-Kasser Prize, and his New York debut at the 92nd Street Y, sponsored by the Katharine J. Rayner Prize.  At the Auditions, Mr. Guerrier was also awarded The Saint Vincent College Concert Series Prize and The John and Esther Browning Memorial Prize. 

Mr. Guerrier was the youngest winner of the "Victoires de la Musique Classique" Award, as the best instrumental soloist of the year on prime time French television.  He captured first prize at the 2003 Munich International Music Competition of the ARD, the first trumpeter to be awarded the First Prize since Maurice André won in 1963.  A nonpareil virtuoso, he won First Prize in the 2002 International Trumpet Guild Competition in New York at the age of 17, and First Prize in the 2000 Maurice André International Trumpet Competition in Paris when he was only 16.

Mr. Guerrier has made concerto appearances with the Camerata de Coahuila in Mexico , Switzerland ’s Basel Symphony Orchestra and Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Germany ’s Vogtland Philharmonic, the Chamber Orchestra of Venice in Italy , the Ensemble Musica Viva in Portugal and the Kosice Festival Orchestra in Slovakia .  He has also appeared as soloist with orchestras in France including the Colonne Orchestra in Paris , the Lyon Chamber Orchestra, the Lorraine Philharmonic, and the National Orchestras of Bordeaux and Toulouse .

In addition to his astounding trumpet career, Mr. Guerrier has been named Principal Horn with the Orchestra National de France under the direction of Kurt Masur.  He is also a member of the brass quintet Turbulences.

David Guerrier was born in 1984 in Pierrelatte, in the south of France , and began to study the trumpet there with Serge Vivares at the age of seven.  He soon won gold medals in the national music schools of Villeurbanne and Aix-en-Provence .  At the age of thirteen he won First Prize in the Markneukirchen International Trumpet Competition in Germany , and the following year he won First Prize in the Porcia International Competition in Italy .  Mr. Guerrier studied trumpet and baroque trumpet at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon with Pierre Dutot and Jean-François Madeuf.