About
Australian trumpeter Josh Rogan is the Associate-Principal Trumpet of the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra in New Zealand. He began his musical life at a young age, playing cornet in a local brass band with his family. Since then, he has taken his love of music all over the world, performing in venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Australia; Royal Albert Hall, United Kingdom; Walt Disney Concert Hall, United States of America; Royal Concertgebouw, Netherlands; Shanghai Concert Hall, China; and the Berlin Konzerthaus, Germany.
He has performed with a number of highly renowned ensembles, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and the Principal Brass of the New York Philharmonic; has played with many distinguished conductors including Vladimir Ashkenazy, Christoph Eschenbach, and David Zinman; in addition to working with influential composers such as John Williams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Nigel Westlake. In 2021, Josh spent the first half of the year working as guest Principal Trumpet of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
Some other personal musical highlights include playing the Waltzing Matilda Fanfare to open the Australia Day ceremony at Australian Open Tennis- Women’s Final in 2013; travelling to Birmingham Symphony Hall, United Kingdom, to compete in the historic brass band competition, the British Open, with the Wellington Brass Band in 2016; and being invited to perform as the guest alumni soloist with the Melbourne Youth Orchestra for their 50th Anniversary Concert in 2017.
Josh is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, the Australian National Academy of Music, and the Colburn School.
Watch a video
A Flourish-ish Fanfare, by Josh Rogan. Recorded during Covid-19 Lockdown in April 2020 with Michael Harper.
Videos
Here are some trumpet videos from various performances and recordings. As you may notice, some of these pieces are standard works, while others are more contemporary in style. Hopefully you will be able to find some music that appeals to you, but if not, you can visit my Youtube channel for more videos here.
Solo Repertoire
Quiet City, by Aaron Copland
Trumpet Concerto, by Eino Tamberg
Windows, by Petr Eben, arr. J. Rogan
Trumpet Concerto No. 2 in C Major, by Michael Haydn
Orchestra Repertoire
100 Days of Excerpts- 2017-2018
Mahler 9, with Musician Project- 2015
Audition Reel- 2016
Album Recordings
Louisa Trewartha’s Trumpet Concerto, Recorded in October 2018: www.louisatrewartha.bandcamp.com/releases
Contemporary Repertoire
Exposed Throat, by HK Gruber
Sequenza X, by Luciano Berio
Chute d’Etoiles excerpt, by Matthias Pintscher, with Michael Harper
Composer/ Arranger
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List of Compositions
Monologue for Solo Tuba (2009) View Here
Adventures and Distortions- Brass Quintet (2011) View Here
Concertpiece for Band- Brass Band (2011) View Here
Daenerys- Solo Violin (2011) View Here
Moto Perpetuo- Two Trumpets (2012) View Here
Music- Piccolo Trumpet and Bb Trumpet (2012) View Here
Four Sketches for Horn Quartet (2013) View Here
A Flourish-ish Fanfare- Two Trumpets (2014) View Here
Rhapsody on a Theme- Tuba and Strings (2014) View Here
Fanfare, Reflection, and Ending- Two Trumpets (2015) View Here
Ad lib- Two Trumpets (2016) View Here
"Entrance"- Solo Trumpet (2016) View Here
Reflections- Flugel, Horn, and Trombone (2017) View Here
List of Arrangements
Pokarekare Ana (Brass Quintet) View Here
Ravel, Bolero (Brass Quintet) View Here
Bruckner, Locus iste (Brass Quartet) View Here
Tallis, If ye love me (Brass Quartet) View Here
Bennet, Weep o mine eyes (Brass Quartet) View Here
Byrd, Ave Verum Corpus (Brass Quartet) View Here
Handel, La Rejouissance (2 Trumpets) View Here
Educator
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Teaching Philosophy
I began playing music in a community brass band, learning from my parents, and listening to the amateur musicians in the band who were simply playing for fun. Later, I received tuition from world class institutions and internationally recognized teachers, while performing with advanced and professional musicians. Both of these things have led me to believe that learning a brass instrument should always be about producing a sound that is beautiful to listen to, and that this can be achieved through focused attention, rather than by eliminating the fun of music.
Much of my teaching is done through demonstration, and through practical application. I teach that you can create a fantastic product if you work on mastering the many simple aspects of music, rather than only trying to fix difficult passages and struggling through challenging exercises.
I believe that if you consistently play simple exercises with the highest level of execution, then you are building the habit of excellence. This allows beginners to sound better much quicker, and allows all musicians to improve consistently, and eventually the habit of excellence will be so strong that even the challenging aspects of music are performed with ease and conviction.
I have written some books to work on trumpet playing and learning. If you would like to view them, you can find them here.