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Earlier in September, Department of Music & Dance Associate Professor of Trumpet, Eric Berlin was invited to be a judge at the prestigious Munich ARD International Competition, a major annual event that rewards winners with considerable prize money and solo engagements with some of the world's major orchestras.  The ARD Competition rotates their featured instruments each year, with prizes awarded in trumpet, voice, piano trio and viola in 2018.

Joining Berlin on the judging panel were a number of other prominent trumpeters, including Marco Blaauw (German avant garde soloist, member Ensemble Musikfabrik), Ketil Christensen (Danish soloist, former Principal Trumpet, Danish National Opera), Mireia Farrés (Principal Trumpet, Barcelona Symphony Orchestra), Osamu Takahashi (Principal Trumpet, Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony), Gábor Tarkövi (Principal Trumpet, Berlin Philharmonic), and Wim Van Hasselt (member of Lucerne Festival Orchestra, former member of Concertgebouw Orchestra)

More information about the ARD can be found at https://www.br.de/ard-music-competition/index.html.