Sarah Slater · trumpet

"Hear Her!" Works for trumpet by female composers.

In the music world, we are experiencing a cultural shift that aims to involve women more in areas where they were previously virtually invisible and unheard. We see conductors leading the world's best orchestras, we hear compositions by female composers in orchestral concerts, and we see young female trumpet soloists on the biggest stages. There is still a long way to go before we see true equality in practice, but there is often an interest and openness to it that is encouraging and will certainly continue to grow from now on. It is against the backdrop of this cultural shift that the Hear Her Project has developed. The trumpet has always been a male-dominated instrument. However, if you look closely, you will find inspiring female trumpet players throughout history. Composition was also a male-dominated profession for a long time. One might think, looking at both together, that there are not many works written for trumpet by female composers. But if you look closely, you will find not just a few, but many absolutely fantastic works for trumpet written by female composers around the world.

Biography

Australian Trumpeter Sarah Slater is Professor for Trumpet, Didactic and Chamber Music at the Institute for Music of the Osnabrueck University of Applied Sciences. Her current research and performance project 'Hear Her' focusses on compositions for trumpet and brass by female composers of the past and present. Sarah worked from 2012-2019 as Assistant to Prof. Reinhold Friedrich at the University of Music in Karlsruhe as well as from 2016-2017 at the University of Music in Trossingen. Sarah has been a member of the international brass ensemble 'WorldBrass' since 2012 and has performed with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Deutschen Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Lucerne Festival Brass, NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover and the Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin as well as the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra of India (Mumbai) und the Free State Symphony Orchestra (South Africa). From 2005-2007 Sarah was trainee and then under contract with the National Theater in Mannheim. Afterwards she spent 2008 as Tutti Trumpet with the Essen Philharmonic. Sarah studied modern trumpet with Reinhold Friedrich, Laura Vukobratovic and Klaus Bräker as well as Natural Trumpet with Edward H. Tarr. Sarah has two young daughters.