JAN ZAWADA - TRUMPET

Jan is the trumpet player in the band, highly experienced in studio, live broadcast and TV show work. Over the past 30 years as a professional trumpet player he has worked with various TV, radio and live West End productions including Les Miserables, Starlight Express and South Pacific. He has played alongside many personalities such as Freddie Starr, The Three Degrees, Michael Parkinson, Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, Clive James and Michael Barrymore. Having travelled extensively, he has performed at major venues all around the world including concerts with the Royal Philharmonic and BBC Concert Orchestra, and the Rio de Janeiro Radio Orchestra.

Jan has a BMus (Hons) Degree and Dip (HE) Music from the University of Portsmouth and is a member of the British Music Writers Council. He specialises in Big Band arrangements, a genre in which he enjoys the challenge of extreme register playing as a lead trumpet player. Influences include Maynard Ferguson, Tower of Power, and Blood Sweat & Tears.

Jan uses a Monette BL4 mouthpiece in a Schilke S42L John Faddis Model Custom trumpet with tuning bell, and also a Schilke S32 and Smith-Watkins 464 R25 Bb trumpet with Osmun CCAPS, Curry brass action rods, interchangeable lead-pipes designed in consultation with Derek Watkins and built by Richard Smith, London. For extreme register orchestral playing add to the above a Schilke P5-4 piccolo trumpet. For the 'ballad' end of playing a Yamaha Professional flugël horn is his first choice.

Jan is also very tall. For more information about Jan visit his website at http://www.trumpet1.com