Tina Gruenberg – LPO publicity photograph
Tina Gruenberg, violinist, and member of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently asked me if I’d take some publicity photos of her.
I suggested that we use the newly refurbished Festival Hall as a setting.
The LPO have chosen to use this one for the front cover of their programmes for the entire season of 2010/11. They will be printing millions of them.
It looks like this:
And here’s another one from the same photo session:
Benge Pocket Trumpet
I’ve just spent a week in Antwerp, Belgium, playing Schubert’s 9th Symphony with the Flanders Filharmonic orchestra (KFOV) and stayed with an old friend and fine photographer, Miel Pieters, a fiddle player in the orchestra. Here’s are some pictures he took of me practising my Benge pocket trumpet. It’s perfect for travelling as it fits in my horncase – and there’s still room for the horn.
