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About Charlie

A trumpeter, guitarist, composer, arranger and bandleader with experience across classical, jazz, musical theatre, rock, blues, funk and pop

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Welling

*Trumpet* On the trumpet I am experienced in classical, small group jazz, big band (especially lead) and musical theatre. I am a confident improviser and a good sight-reader. In addition, I have been principal trumpet of numerous orchestras. *Guitar* On the guitar I can play in a huge variety of styles, including musical theatre, jazz, funk, blues (including slide guitar), rock, metal and reggae. I comfortably read chord symbols, standard notation and tablature as well as being able to play by ear and confidently improvise. I have a strong understanding of effects and their uses particularly in musical theatre, as demonstrated by my performance in NYMT’s production of Chess, a show with a very varied and demanding guitar part. *Ensemble player / bandleader / arranger / composer* I have played in a lot of ensembles of varying sizes and genres, which has given me the abilities to either lead the group or sit back and accompany depending on what the situation calls for. Most notably I formed a rock band to play a set of covers at a local festival, and I lead a jazz sextet that plays my compositions and arrangements of standard tunes. GEAR: *Brass* • B♭ trumpet • Flügelhorn • Piccolo trumpet • E♭/D trumpet • Tenor horn • Soprano trombone • Bass trumpet • Mutes: straight, cup, Harmon, plunger, bucket, Solotone, piccolo straight, bass straight *Guitars* • Electric guitar (6- and 7-strings) • Steel-string and nylon-string acoustic guitars • Steel-string baritone acoustic guitar • Banjo • Mandolin • Ukulele

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Musicianship

Genres:

Musical theatre, Classical, Fanfare, Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Acoustic, Disco, Funk, Soul, Pop, Covers, Rock, Heavy metal, Indie, Ska

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Instruments:

Trumpet, Guitar, Singer (baritone), Bass guitar, Viola

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Event types:

Theatre / Show, Wedding, Funeral / Memorial service, Church service, Corporate event, Private event, Bar / Club / Venue event, Charity event, Concert, Recording session, Virtual event, Wedding proposal, Hotel / Restaurant event, Cruise, Burns night, Birthday party, Christmas party, New Year's Eve

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Other skills:

Arranger, Composer, Lyricist, Songwriter, Producer, Orchestrator, Transcription, Actor, Fluent improviser, Fluent sight-reader, Instrumental teaching, Theory teaching, Composition teaching

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Song list

*Solo Guitar + Vocals*

~open to any requests of any genre but this is the setlist I have prepared~

Lazy Boy Dash - Jimmie's Chicken Shack

Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix

First Day of My Life - Bright Eyes

Boys Will Be Bugs - Cavetown

Right Next Door - Robert Cray

As The World Caves In - Matt Maltese

I Can't Remember Love (from "The Queen's Gambit") - Anna Hauss

Wait for Sleep - Dream Theater

Save Me - Queen

Cancer - My Chemical Romance

Bleeding Me - Metallica

Mama Said - Metallica

Cherry Wine - Hozier

*Band*

~open to any requests of any genre but this is the setlist we have prepared; everything from the previous list is also applicable~

Headfirst for Halos - My Chemical Romance

Hysteria - Muse

Thank God I'm Not You - Himalayas

Poor Twisted Me - Metallica

The Pretender - Foo Fighters

Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana

Bank Holiday - Blur

For Want Of - Rite of Spring

I Don't Care - Fall Out Boy

Take the Power Back - Rage Against the Machine

Can't Stop - Red Hot Chilli Peppers

Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Green Day

Into the Fire - Deep Purple

Little Monster - Royal Blood

Too Bad - Rival Sons

Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple

Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N' Roses

Back in Black - AC/DC

Lithium - Nirvana

Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Sunshine of Your Love - Cream

London Calling - The Clash

*Jazz standards*

~any blues, rhythm changes, or vamp~

Armageddon

Blue Bossa

Caravan

Idle Moments

Little Sunflower

Misty

Polka Dots and Moonbeams

Red Clay

Sandu

Spain

Strasbourg

Take Five

*Solo Trumpet*

The Last Post

Trumpet Voluntary/The Prince of Denmark's March - Jeremiah Clarke

Trumpet Tune - Purcell

Queen of the Night's Aria (for Eb trumpet) - Mozart

Trumpet Concerto - Haydn

Trumpet Concerto - Neruda

Cello Suites (for trumpet) - Bach

Concert Etude - Goedicke

Red, White and Blues - Bernstein

Sonata for Trumpet and Piano - Hindemith

Variations on a Theme from Norma - Arban

*Musical Theatre (pit)*

Spamalot

School of Rock

Sister Act

Wizard of Oz

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat

Chess

Evita

*Orchestral (all trumpet parts including piccolo and contralto/bass trumpet where applicable)*

Mahler 1

Mahler 5

Dvorak 9 (New World Symphony)

Tchaikovsky 4

Capriccio Espagnole - Rimsky-Korsakov

Carmen - Bizet

Symphony No. 3 - Rachmaninoff

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Rachmaninoff

Espana - Chabrier

Verdi Requiem

Petrushka - Stravinsky

Rite of Spring - Stravinsky

Pictures at an Exhibition - Mussorgsky arr. Ravel

*Big Band*

In the Mood

Backrow Politics

Count Bubba

Jazz Police

April in Paris

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy

Soul Bossa Nova

The Chicken

Stardust

Customer questions

What do your clients love most about your performances?

Based on the variety of positive feedback I've received, the characteristics most often mentioned are my accuracy, quality of tone, attention to detail, proficiency on doubling instruments, matching my style to the piece, ensemble and occasion, and use of effects and extended techniques.

Which venues have you performed at in the past?

• Trafalgar Square • Royal Albert Hall • Royal Festival Hall • Barbican • Clore Ballroom, Southbank Centre • Royal Birmingham Conservatoire • The Curve, Leicester • Painted Hall, Greenwich • St John's Smith Square • Fairfield Hall, Croydon • Monserrat, Sp • Rose Theatre, Kingston • Bob Hope Theatre, Eltham • Lesnes Abbey • Danson Park • The Exchange, Erith

Which artists have you been most influenced by?

Bach, Beethoven, Mahler, Dvorak, Rachmaninoff, Stravinsky Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Clifford Brown, Jaco Pastorius, Adam Neely The Beatles, Cream, Abba, Hozier, Yvette Young Megadeth, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Avenged Sevenfold, Deftones, Bring Me the Horizon, Poison the Well, My Chemical Romance, Pierce the Veil, Sleeping with Sirens

What is the most high profile gig you've performed?

When I was 10, I played an adaptation of the Swan Lake suite with the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev, in Trafalgar Square, to an audience of several thousand. It was my first major orchestral experience of dozens so far, and is one of the reasons I now love performing so much.

How much time do you need to set up?

Trumpet - 5-10 mins Guitar - 10-30 mins For both instruments, setup time greatly depends on how many doubling instruments I have, and in the case of the guitar, the backline/PA setup.