Philip Ramey

For unaccompanied trumpet in C.

This piece was concieved at La Citadelle la Ferriere in Haiti, a huge, half-ruined fortress high on a remote mountaintop and reachable only on horseback. It was a combination of the strange yet beauti...

The Fanfare Sonata, one of the rather too few works for solo trumpet, takes its name from the fanfare-like gestures which are the basis of much of its melodic and rhythmic material. In the opening Mod...