Remise du prix européen de la culture à Edward Tarr à l’hôtel de ville de Bâle le 21 novembre 2013 (de g. à d.: JFM, Irmtraud Krüger-Tarr & Edward H. Tarr, Philip Tarr)
He was, at the same time, player in the first ensembles of early music witch dedicated to « historically informed practice » in the seventies like Collegium Aureum ; teacher of the first natural trumpet class at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel from 1972 to 2001; musicologist and author of numerous articles and books; publisher of forgotten pieces for trumpet; collector of early historic instruments and director of trumpet museum in Bad Säckingen; invited expert in many international trumpet competitions/contest… and great amateur of wine and cigare! So, all trumpeters in the world owe him a lot!
He wasn’t my teacher at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis because my project to study there couldn’t happen at that time, but I am honored to have been, years after, his follower and I owe him a lot too : the reading of his book The trumpet, published in French version in 1977 by Payot éditions, when I was still a teenager, was certainly deciding in my career, without any idea of that at this moment… So thanks a lot Ed !