A founding member of the Empire Brass, the trumpeter played with a lustrous tone and extraordinary technique. At age 19, he was the youngest... Trumpeter Rolf Smedvig, praised for his beautiful tone ...

WEST STOCKBRIDGE >> Trumpeter Rolf Smedvig, one of the youngest musicians ever hired by the Boston Symphony and co-founder of the famed Empire Brass, died suddenly at his longtime home in West ...

To hear Rolf Smedvig tell it, he wasn’t terribly nervous in 1972 when he auditioned at 19 and became the youngest musician in the Boston Symphony Orchestra. A trumpet prodigy, he had studied at ...

Such is the case of the Empire Brass quintet, whose beginnings were anything but humble. "We formed with the help of Leonard Bernstein, who was commissioned to write the opening performance of the ...

The South Mountain Association notes with sadness the recent passing of trumpeter Rolf Smedvig. A superb musician with a remarkable technique, it was our privilege to present locally the Empire Brass ...

Considering the family he comes from, it's not surprising that Rolf Smedvig began to play trumpet early. "My mother played violin, my father was a piano player and also played clarinet, one sister ...