Part of Australian National University's Australian and near-Pacific neighbours First Nations Composers Gathering. Performances of works be Leilehua Lanzilotti, Christopher Sainsbury, Nardi Simpson, Rhyan Clapham, and Troy Russell with Ensemble Three, Lyrebird Brass, and students from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music. More Info

To be released 16 August 2024 on Navona records: Lyrebird Brass's latest album, Book of Brass, featuring premiere recordings of works by Jennifer Higdon, Grace-Evangeline Mason, Kate Neal, Alice Humphries, and Alan Holley. More Info

Ensemble Three are featured on the new album Singing Stone: The Music of Christopher Sainsbury to be released in April 2024. The title track is a major work in five movements written for Ensemble Three. The album includes Ken's guitar on each track and Joel is featured on for the duo Pacific, arranged for trumpet and guitar. Both recordings are world premieres.

I'm thrilled to be on Artist Faculty of the Banff Centre's summer program Chamber Music and Opera: Interplay. The summer will feature chamber opera performances of The Handmaid's Tale (Poul Ruders/Paul Bentley) and Indians on Vacation (Ian Cusson/Royce Vavrek) along with several chamber music concerts. This will be my first time back in Canada since I left Manitoba in 2012 - I miss it!

I'll be joining Ken Murray on his performance at the Paganini Guitar Festival in Parma, Italy before we head to Albania and Kosovo for concerts featuring new works Enis Mullaj, Kris Sopoqoti, Eriona Rushiti, Jetmir Zaganjori, Kreshnik Aliçkaj, Avni Krasniqi, Johanna Selleck, and Alan Holley.

I'm camptivated by the sound world created by composer Michael Frazier, and jumped at the opportunity to commission a new work from him during the dull years of the pandemic. I'm thrilled to now be able to share this beautiful work with the world.

Ensemble Three will be touring Melbourne and its surrounds as part of the Melbourne Recital Centre's Music Always program, performing at a number of aged care and assisted living facilities.

Leilihua Lanzilotti will be a Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne in late 2023, working with Ensemble Three on a new work.

Lyrebird Brass have released an album of brass trios — all previously unrecorded — by mid-20th century Belgian and French composers. Tonnerre de Brass includes works by Lucie Vellere, Georges Barboteu, Marius Flothuis, Frits Celis, Mathieu Debaar, and Arthur Meulemans.

Lyrebird Brass's debut album, Apex Predators, includes works by Australian composers or written in tribute to Australia and its inhabitants. The title is not only apt for featuring the premiere recording of Catherine Likhuta’s work of the same name, but also because the ensemble's home country hosts many of the world’s deadliest creatures.

In celebration of 2022 International Women’s Day, I recorded a performance of Lucie Vellère's beautifully lyrical “Deux Essais” (1965) with my friends and colleagues Carla Blackwood and Don Immel. The piece exploits the versatility of the three instruments, moving from warm, velvety textures in the first movement to frenetic, bouncy passages in the second.

Lyrebird Brass has teamed up with the American Brass Quintet to co-comission a new work by GRAMMY and Pulitzer Prize award winning composer, Jennifer Higdon. The new work will receive its premiere performances in New York and Melbourne in late 2022.

We're please to announce a number of commissions, including new works for 2022 from Melbourne's own Linda Kouvaras and Alice Humphries. Details about the works and their premieres are forthcoming.

Between Melbourne's two strict lockdowns in 2020, Ken Murray and I got together to experiment with recording ourselves. We made a recording of Sleepless, a hauntingly-beautiful piece by Caerwen Martin. Shoelace Creative made a video for the music so we could include it in the Guitar Perspectives Online Celebration.

I'm thrilled to have been profiled in the latest International Trumpet Guild Journal. ITG created a digital repository of back issues this year, and I’ve enjoyed reading many of the fascinating articles throughout lockdown!

Facutly from the Tianjin Juilliard School have released a video performance of 'Le jardin féerique' from Ravel's Ma mère l'Oye. Although Ravel didn't intend for trumpet to be included, we've added a bit! More Info

Now available on iTunes minabel/SONY: Dai Fujikura: Turtle Totem, featuring a live performace by Ensemble Three.

Developed in collaboration with the American Brass Quintet, the Brass Quintet Repertoire Database is now up and running. This interactive, searchable database of original works written for brass quintet is designed to serve as a resource to performers, composers, concert presenters, and researchers. Particular attention has been paid to ensuring data is stored and presented in a manner which will help shed light on works by composers of underrepresented demographics.

Upcoming performances and masterclasses for the Tianjin Juilliard School in Shenzen, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Qingdao, and Beijing.

New Yamaha Artist video part of Yamaha Australia's "Backstage" series, featuring Frankie....and me playing some Bach and Scelsi. More Info

Now available on iTunes by ABC Classics: Andrew Schultz: Century, with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra under Hamish McKeich. Includes Symphony No. 3 'Century', Op. 91, Peace, Op. 93, and August Offensive, Op. 92. More Info

Despite Our Silent Elders, Ensemble Three's latest album, featuring works by Katy Abbott, Christian O'Brien, Andrew Ford, Jane Hammond, Elliott Hughes, and Harry Sdraulig is now available. More Info

Ensemble Three US Tour
Performance at USC: 13 Feb 2019
Princeton Residency: 19-21 Feb 2019
More dates to come

I have been appointed the trumpet teacher at the Tianjin Juilliard School, commencing in their 2019-2020 school year. For information on the school, please visit http://tianjin.juilliard.edu/

Now out on ABC Classics - Return Journey: Ensemble Three Play Sonatas by Stuart Greenbaum. More Info

Now available on iTunes by ABC Classics: Punch: The Brass Music of Katy Abbott, featuring Cross Sections for solo trumpet and trombone with brass ensemble, Midnight Songs and undercurrenT with Ensemble Three, and Punch for brass ensemble.

The Victorian Music Teachers' Association was kind enough to request an interview with me for the most recent volume of "their "Music and the Teacher" (Vol 43:2 Spring 2017).