Artists - Yamaha

Thorsten Benkenstein

Thorsten Benkenstein is one of the most respected Lead Trumpet players around the world. Since 2005 he holds the position as Lead Trumpet in the NDR-Big Band in Hamburg.

Juan Diego Sáez Miranda

The saxophonist Juan Diego Sáez, professor of saxophone at the Conservatorio Superior de Málaga, starts as a Yamaha artist.

Jamie Williams

Since 2010, Jamie Williams has been the Principal Trombonist of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and is playing on a YSL-882O Xeno.

Emanuele Casieri

Emanuele Casieri, began playing the trumpet aged 7 in his hometown's wind band and later started having lessons with Silvio Romeo. Following on from that, he joined Giuseppe Bodanza's trumpet class at Milan Conservatoire of Music and just after graduating, won the position of Principal Trumpet in the “G.Verdi” Milan Symphony Orchestra.

Andrea Lieberknecht

Andrea Lieberknecht was born in 1965 in Augsburg.

Thomas Horch

First Thomas Horch was student of Hans Kuhner (Radio Symphony Orchester Frankfurt), later of Prof. Branimir Slokar at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Cologne.

Rex Richardson

An artiste with an exceptional talent who has made a name for himself as one of the finest trumpet players in the world today, (London, www.4barsrest.com ) Yamaha Performing Artist Rex Richardson has become one of the busiest crossover trumpet virtuosos on the international scene.

Eirik Gjerdevik

Eirik Gjerdevik was born in 1968 in Baldersheim in Fusa.

Nigel Hitchcock

Born in Rustington, England(UK) on 4th January 1971, Nigel Hitchcock first began to play the recorder at age 6, so as to complete the recorder quartet comprising of his elder brother and two sisters.

Otis Murphy

Born in 1972, Otis Murphy joined the faculty of the Indiana University School of Music in 2001 at the age of 28, becoming one of the youngest faculty members in the history of the IU School of Music.