Trumpet Festival Announces Its 11th Season

Marcus Belgrave.

The Festival of New Trumpet Music has announced its 11th annual season, to be held in Manhattan and Brooklyn from Sept. 10 through Oct. 2. This year’s theme is “Music for Small, Medium and Massive: Premieres, Fanfares and Remembrance.”

Upholding the “massive” part of that slogan is the New York premiere of a composition by the composer Henry Brant. The piece, “Flight Over a Global Map for 52 Trumpets,” will be performed at Roulette in Brooklyn on Sept. 11, in a concert that will also feature the premiere of John Zorn’s “Antiphonal Fanfare for the Great Hall,” for six trumpets; and a tribute to the visionary trumpeter-conductor Butch Morris, who died this year.

Another concert at Roulette, on Sept. 10, will feature two works commissioned by the festival: “Octet for Brass and Violin,” by the experimental classical composer Christian Wolff, and a piece by the trumpeter Roy Campbell, for his Akhenaten Large Ensemble.

One of the festival’s board members, Jeremy Pelt, has organized a series at Smoke Jazz and Supper Club featuring a clutch of up-and-coming trumpeters, including Bria Skonberg, Josh Evans and Vitaly Golovnev. And Dave Douglas, the festival’s founder and director, will perform at St. Peter’s Church on Sept. 23, with a band that includes the saxophonist Jon Irabagon and the vocalist Heather Masse.

Receiving the festival’s award of recognition this year is Marcus Belgrave, a one-man jazz institution in Detroit, both as a trumpeter and an educator. Mr. Belgrave, 77, will close the festival on Oct. 1 and 2 at the Jazz Standard, with a group featuring three accomplished former students: the pianist Geri Allen, the bassist Marion Hayden and the drummer Kassa Overall.

For more information, including a full schedule of performances, visit fontmusic.org.