TBJ165: Michael Sachs
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On This Episode of The Brass Junkies:
Michael working with Sam in the Empire Brass Seminar and how it impacted him as a person and as a musician
Studying with Tony Plog in high school
Why he doesn’t think he would have made it if he had gone straight to a serious conservatory for undergrad
How Michael’s father encouraged him to always stay curious
The COVID deep dive he did into the roots of trumpet pedagogues like Stamp and Schlossberg and how it ended up intertwining with his family history
How he got into amateur radio when he was a kid
The time Sachs cursed out a friend over a Cleveland Orchestra radio broadcast via morse code
What the Cleveland Orchestra is up to right now as we slowly emerge from the pandemic
The silver lining of having to take so much time off from the orchestra
“Do no harm” in the practice room
Bio:
Michael Sachs joined The Cleveland Orchestra as principal trumpet in 1988. His many performances as soloist with the Orchestra include the world premieres of John Williams’s Concerto for Trumpet and Michael Hersch’s Night Pieces for trumpet and orchestra (both commissioned by the Orchestra for Mr. Sachs), the United States and New York premieres of Hans Werner Henze’s Requiem, and, in 2012, the world premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Chute d’Étoiles, conducted by Franz Welser-Möst at the Lucerne Festival. He has also soloed in works by Handel, Copland, and Bach, and most recently performed Hummel's Trumpet Concerto with the Orchestra in November 2019.
Links:
https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/discover/meet-the-musicians/trumpets/sachs-michael/
https://www.cim.edu/faculty/michael-sachs
https://music.northwestern.edu/faculty/profile/michael-sachs
https://stringsmusicfestival.com/michael-sachs-music-director/
https://hitzacademy.regfox.com/inside-the-practice-room-with-rex-richardson
https://hitzacademy.regfox.com/inside-the-practice-room-with-michael-sachs
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