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Jens Jacobson to play baroque trumpet with Missoula City Band; also appears in Vancouver and PBS-recorded Messiah
Summary
Jens Jacobson, a Superior general music teacher and second trumpet with the Missoula Symphony, will perform on baroque trumpet with the Missoula City Band on Wednesday and has upcoming and recent performances in Vancouver and a PBS-recorded Messiah in Bozeman.
Jens Jacobson, 36, a general music teacher in Superior and second trumpet with the Missoula Symphony, will perform with the Missoula City Band on Wednesday, the host of Music in Missoula said during an on-air interview.
The appearance adds to a string of engagements for Jacobson, who told the program he will play a Bach piece and Mozart's Requiem with a Vancouver ensemble and recently performed in a period-instrument production of Handel's Messiah that PBS recorded in Bozeman.
“I'm 36. Just turned 36 in June,” Jacobson said during the interview, which the host identified as part of the Music in Missoula program. He described playing both modern instruments such as flugelhorn and historical instruments: “I'm gonna play flugelhorn, and I think I decided to just play baroque trumpet on the whole thing.”
Jacobson explained the differences between baroque and modern trumpets for listeners. He said baroque trumpets do not have valves and therefore rely on the harmonic series to produce pitches; players change the instrument's key with different crooks and, where needed, use small vent holes to nudge certain notes into tune. His demonstration on the program illustrated the instrument's brighter, more brilliant sound and the technical limits that push much of baroque trumpet repertoire into a high register.
He said the baroque trumpet he demonstrated is keyed in C and that he sometimes uses different crooks to match ensembles in other keys. Jacobson also described how historical mouthpiece shapes and the absence of valves affect tone and playing technique.
On the program Jacobson summarized his musical background: born in Birmingham, Alabama, raised in Billings, Montana, he completed a performance degree and a master's, spent time as a graduate teaching assistant for marching band, and later met a baroque trumpet teacher who influenced his work on period instruments. He said his earliest serious playing setbacks included an overuse injury in college that forced him to reassess technique and breathing.
The host invited listeners to attend the City Band concert on Wednesday. “Come on out to the city band concert, Wednesday,” the host said on air.
Tickets, exact performance times and dates for the Vancouver engagements and the City Band concert were not specified during the interview.
