Download Printable Version
Photographer: Sophie Hogan
Equally at home in classical or contemporary genres, Guy has debuted new works by Canadian composers including Glen Buhr, Peter Hatch, Alain Trudel, Melissa Hui, Boyd McDonald, Mathieu Lussier and Jacques Hétu among others. He has recorded for S.N.E., Arsis Classics, CBC Musica Viva, CBC SM5000, Naxos, MSR and the Hänssler Classics labels. Hänssler recordings include the Grammy Award winning Credo of Penderecki with the Oregon Bach Festival Orchestra, Helmuth Rilling conductor. June 2008 marks the release of Romanza (Hummel, Lachner, Weber), with Nadina Mackie Jackson and The Toronto Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan conductor for MSR Classics.
Guy has been invited as a professor, adjudicator, soloist, principal and recitalist to hundreds of festivals including The Festival of the Sound, Scotiafest, The Orford Festival, The National Music Festival, The Ottawa Chamber Festival, The Elora Festival, Tanglewood, Takefu International Music Festival and The Oregon Bach Festival. Clinics and master classes have been presented for festivals worldwide including Scotiafest, Takefu International Music Festival, Orford Arts Centre and The Banff Centre for the Arts as well as post-secondary institutions such as the Montreal Conservatory, the University of Toronto, Memorial University of Newfoundland, State University of New York at Fredonia and Sonoma State University.
Guy is a gold medal graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario and holds a Fellowship Diploma from Trinity College, London, England. He performs and records on a regular basis with Nadina Mackie Jackson (bassoon), Stephanie Mara (piano) and Bellows and Brass. He has appeared on CBC-TV, CTV, BRAVO, TV5 and European television broadcasts and is heard regularly on CBC Radio and NPR.
Guy Few and Nadina Mackie Jackson were recently appointed as co-artistic directors of the Grand River Baroque Festival. Guy is a sessional lecturer at Wilfrid Laurier University where he conducts the Wilfrid Laurier Brass Ensemble and teaches trumpet and duo piano. He is a Yamaha Artist.
www.guyfew.com
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
"Outrageously Gifted...quite simply phenomenal"
Le Devoir (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
"creative genius..."
The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
"Guy Few is exactly what the concert stage needs - someone who is willing to take chances and upset the status quo"
Vancouver Province (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
"...the Nigel Kennedy of the trumpet"
The Windsor Star (Windsor, Ontario, Canada)
"Few, minus his enormous talent, skill and musical soul, would be little more than a novelty act"
The Sunday Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
"The thrillingly fearless Canadian trumpeter did justice to the full meaning of the word "virtuoso"."
The Register Guard (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
"Flexible tone, dazzling technique and go for broke tendencies on both instruments..."
The American Record Guide (USA)
"Wild and joyous"
The News-Gazette (Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA)
"Few displayed lightness and a humaneness that reminded this listener of another Canadian, Glenn Gould."
The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, California, USA)
"He coaxed out each note with brilliant clarity and restraint, dropping them like perfect pearls along a string."
The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California, USA)
"If anyone can make the corno da caccia sound easy to conquer, not to mention downright sexy, it's Few."
The Register Guard (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
"Few easily maintained the silky, lyrical legato that infuses all his performances, at the same time making the horn's muffled timbre sing ...with ...bright golden tone."
The Register Guard (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
"Astonishing virtuosity and energy"
The Halifax Herald (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
"...the orchestra soloists were..superb, including Guy Few playing trumpets flawlessly"
The Oregonian (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
"The audience was abuzz as the concert began...because of Few's dramatic entrance. Those familiar with the trumpeter will know that he is anything but a staid classical musician. He walked out on stage in black leather pants, a white shirt open to mid-chest and a floor-length flowing black coat that evoked the popular movie "The Matrix". Luckily, his trumpet playing matches his brash presence. Swift passages were played with ease and long legato lines sang"
The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
"Few was again a remarkable instrumental soloist whose impeccable control matched Jette's singing."
The Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon, USA)
"Few's playing was sultry and expressive, and he played with an energizing freedom that demonstrated the beauty of the trumpet"
The Winnipeg Free Press
Piano Concerto repertoire list
Beethoven #1
Grieg
Haydn - G major Hob. XVIII
Liszt #1
Mendelssohn Op. 25
Mozart #20
#24
#27
Rachmaninoff #2
Saint Saëns g minor
Shostakovitch #2
Piano chamber - selected
Schubert - Trout Quintet
Saint Saëns - Septet
Mozart - Piano quintet
Beethoven - Piano Quintet
Brahms - Horn Trio
Sibelius - Piano quintet in g minor
Francaix - L'Heure du Berger
Poulenc - Septet
Brahms - Quintet in f minor - Op. 34
Poulenc - Trio (piano, Oboe, bassoon)
Dvorak - Quintet in A Major - op. 81
Photographer: Sophie Hogan
Trumpet concerto repertoire list
Traditional
Haydn
Hummel
With Full Orchestra
Shchedrin - Concerto
Goedicke - concerto
Arutunian - concerto
Pakhmutova - Concerto for trumpet and orchestra
Tomasi - concerto
Zimmermann - Nobody knows de trouble I see
Howarth - Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra
Pilss - concerto
With Chamber Orchestra
Lussier - Impressions de l'Alameda
Hetu - concerto for Trumpet and Chamber orchestra
Schönbach - concerto in G major
Tomasi - Semaine Sainte a Cuzco
Hui - Two Sides to the Wind
With String Orchestra
Böhme - concerto in f minor
Jolivet - concertino
Latham - Suite
Zbinden - Concertino (w tambour)
Adams - concerto
Ridout - Concerto for trumpet and strings
Riisager - Concertino
Ewazen - Concerto for Trumpet
Planel - concerto
Persichetti - The Hollow Men
Piccolo trumpet and chamber or strings with continuo
Bach - Brandenburg concerto #2
Barber - Capricorn concerto
Hertel - concerto #1 in Eb Major
- Concerto #2 in Eb Major
Albrechtsberger - Concertino in Eb
Telemann - Concerto in D Major
Fasch - Concerto in D major
Albinoni - Concerto Saint Marc
Albinoni - Concerto in d minor
Albinoni - concerto in a minor
Tartini - Concerto in D major
Tartini - Concerto in C major
Richter - Concerto in D major
Mozart (Leopold) - Concerto in D major
Trumpet and others - Baroque
Vivaldi - Concerto in C Major for two trumpets and orchestra
Querfurth - Concerto in Eb Major (tp, 2 violins, bassoon and continuo)
Vejvanovsky - Sonata a 4 (tp, 2 violins, viola, & basso continuo)
Trumpet chamber
Stravinsky - L'Histoire du Soldat
Revueltas - Ocho por Radio
Casella - Serenata
Hummel - Military Septet
Francaix - Gay Paris
Saint Saëns - Septet
Copland - Quiet City
Code - Encounters
Poulenc - Trio (tp, tbn, horn)
Ewazen - Trio (trumpet, violin, piano)
Böhme - Sextet
Hindemith - Septet
Mignone - Sextet
Milhaud - Prelude et postlude pour lidoire
- Aspen serenade
- The Joys of Life
- Musique pour Graz
Corno da Caccia and orchestra
Neruda - Concerto
Molter - Concerto in D Major
- Concerto in D
Trumpet and Soprano
Bach - cantata #51 Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Handel - Let the Bright Seraphim
Handel - eternal Source of Light divine
Handel - Destero dall' empia dite
Handel - alle voci del bronzo guerriero
Purcell - sound the Trumpet
Scarlatti - Gia il sole dal Gange
Scarlatti - 7 Arie con Tromba Sola
Trumpet or Corno, Bassoon and Orchestra
Hindemith - double concerto for trumpet, bassoon and strings
Lussier - double concerto for trumpet, bassoon and strings
Trudel - Carnets du Voyage
Lachner - concertino in E-flat major for Corno, Bassoon and Orchestra
Shostakovitch - Waltz from Jazz Suite #1
Shostakovitch - Dance from Suite for Promenade Orchestra
